JP3380884B2 - Message processing method and message processing system - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a message incoming notification for selecting and executing a process according to a message (e-mail) received by a computer network-connected to an external information transmission means via a public telephone network. Method, electronic
Incoming mail notification method, message processing system and electronic mail
Regarding a child mail processing system .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Telephones, facsimiles, and pagers are available as information transmission means. 2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, there has been known a device that exerts new functional effects by combining these information transmission means for a certain purpose and operating them in cooperation. One example is an answering machine that has a function of notifying a pager that a message has been recorded by combining it with a pager. Prior to using the notification function, the number of the pager of the notification destination is preset in this telephone. And when this telephone records a message by the answering machine function, it automatically calls the pager of a preset number. The person with the pager can know that the message was recorded by being called from this phone.

As another information transmission means, there is an electronic mail system using a computer connected via a public telephone network. FIG. 7 is a system configuration diagram of a conventional communication system including an electronic mail system. In the figure, 401 is a telephone, 402 is a facsimile, 403 is a pager, and 404 is an electronic mail system for sending and receiving electronic mail. Telephone 401, facsimile 402,
A pager center (not shown) for calling the pager 403 and an electronic mail system 404 are connected to each other via a public telephone network.

The conventional communication system described above is based on the telephone 401.
And the pager 403 in cooperation with the above-described message recording notification function, the facsimile 402 and the electronic mail system 404 in cooperation with each other, and the function of receiving a facsimile signal transmitted from the facsimile 402 as an electronic mail in the electronic mail system 404 and electronic. It has a function of converting an electronic mail from the mail system 404 into a facsimile signal and transmitting it to the facsimile 402.

There is also an e-mail arrival notification function that links the e-mail system 404 and pager 403 to notify the pager 403 that an e-mail has arrived in the e-mail system 404.

[0006] There is TeamOFFICE manufactured and sold by the applicant of the present invention in the electronic mail system described above. Team
OFFICE is a LAN (Local Area Net)
It is software for constructing a client / server system mainly including an electronic mail system on a work).

FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram of the electronic mail system described above. In the figure, 501 is a server, and server 5
01, clients 502 and 503 are all installed in a very small area, for example, in the same building,
It is connected to N504. Similarly, the server 505 and the clients 506 and 507 are all installed in a place different from the server 501 and are connected to the LAN 508.
The server 501 and the server 505 are connected to a host computer 509 installed in a communication service company via a public telephone network (not shown).
It is possible to send and receive e-mail to and from each other via 9. The TeamOFFICE program is LAN50
It is loaded in each of the server and client connected to 4,508.

Further, terminals 510 and 511 are computers installed in a place different from the above-mentioned computer, and both are connected to a host computer 509 via a public telephone network (not shown). Terminal 5
10, 511 can send and receive e-mail with other computers connected to the host computer 509 by the programs executed by the respective devices. Further, the host computer 509 is connected to a pager center 512 installed in another communication service company via a public telephone network (not shown). The host computer 509 is designed to call the pager 513 via the pager center 512.

The electronic mail system including the TeamOFFICE described above immediately notifies a client, which should receive the electronic mail, of the electronic mail when it arrives at the server. At this time, if the power of the client is turned off, the person who receives the email from this client cannot know the arrival of the email. The service that eliminates such inconvenience is the email arrival notification service. The person who receives the e-mail at the client 503 receives the pager 5 on the host computer 509.
The number 13 and the use of the electronic mail incoming notification service are set in advance, and the pager 513 is carried. In this situation, from the terminal 511 to the client 50
3 sends an email to the server 501, which is the mail server of the client 503, while the host computer 509 sends the email to the pager center 5 according to the number of the set pager 513.
Call pager 513 via 12. On the display of the pager 513, a fixed message for notifying the arrival of the e-mail is displayed, and this display allows the person having the pager 513 to know the arrival of the e-mail regardless of whether the client 503 is powered on or off. Of.

In the above-mentioned e-mail incoming notification service, the mail servers are connected to the same host computer, the host computers are connected to the public telephone network, and the public telephone network is connected to a pager center. Therefore, the mail servers can send and receive electronic mail through the host computer,
And it is essential that the host computer be able to call the pager through the pager center.

Therefore, when the mail servers are connected without the host computer as described above, the electronic mail incoming notification service cannot be used. In addition, the above-mentioned e-mail arrival notification service does not sort out e-mails that should be notified of incoming calls, so urgent e-mail arrivals and urgent e-mail arrivals are treated exactly the same. Also makes a similar notification. Therefore, when the user is out of the office and is waiting for an urgent notification of incoming e-mail by pager, unnecessary incoming notification is bothered.
Furthermore, in the above-mentioned email incoming notification service,
If you want to notify different recipients depending on the time of day,
There is no method other than changing the notification destination set in the host computer 509 for each time zone, which is troublesome.

The present invention has been made to develop the above-mentioned conventional communication system. For example, regarding the incoming notification of an electronic mail, the pager is notified only when the received electronic mail contains a predetermined keyword. For example, the execution condition of the process to be executed is set for each receiving device, and the incoming message notification method and electronic message are executed to execute the process only when the received message meets the execution condition.
Incoming call notification method, message processing system, and electronic
The purpose is to provide a mail processing system . Further, a time zone is set as an execution condition of processing to be executed for each receiving device, and a message incoming notification method and a message arrival notification method for executing the processing set in the time zone to which the time when the message is received belong.
And a message processing system .

[0013]

A message arrival notification method according to a first aspect of the present invention receives a message via a server.
Message that specifies the receiving device as the destination
The receiving device to send the message to when the server receives it.
The server sends a message using a notification means different from
A method for notifying an incoming call of the receiving server, wherein the server determines whether or not the message should be notified for each receiving device.
One or a plurality of conditions for making a judgment, a notification means used for notifying an incoming call for each condition, and a method of generating notification contents are associated with each other and registered from a database registered in advance.
It is possible to read the recorded contents, and when a message is received, the receiving device to which the message is sent is identified,
The received message is determined whether or not the meet the conditions registered in association with the receiving device, the received message is registered in association with the condition when it is determined that meets the condition registered generating the content of the incoming call notification based on the notification content generation method of which the contents of the generated call notification and notifies using a notification means that is registered in association with the condition.

A method of notifying a message arrival according to a second aspect of the present invention sends a receiving device for receiving a message via a server.
The server received the message specified as the recipient
If the notification differs from the receiving device to which the message was sent
Means that the server notifies the arrival of a message
The server may receive an incoming call for each receiving device.
1 for determining whether or not the message should be notified
Alternatively, a plurality of keywords may be registered from a database that is registered in advance by associating a plurality of keywords with a notification means used for notifying an incoming call for each keyword and a method of generating notification contents .
It is possible to read the content , when the message is received, the receiving device to which the message is sent is identified, and whether or not the received message includes the keyword registered in association with the receiving device. It was determined to produce the contents of the incoming call notification based on the method of generating the content of notification in association with the keywords are registered when it has been determined that includes the keywords registered in the received message, generated It is characterized in that the content of the received incoming notification is notified by using the notification means registered in association with the keyword.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, which is a method for notifying a message arrival, a receiving device for receiving a message is sent via a server.
The server received the message specified as the recipient
If the notification differs from the receiving device to which the message was sent
Means that the server notifies the arrival of a message
The server may receive an incoming call for each receiving device.
1 for determining whether or not the message should be notified
Or, multiple incoming time zones and notification of incoming calls for each time zone
The registered contents from the database that is registered in advance in association with the notification means used for
It is readable, and when a message is received, the receiving device to which the message is sent is identified, and whether the time when the message is received belongs to the time zone registered in association with the receiving device is determined. It discriminated, the time at which the message was received, it is determined to belong to the time zone that is registered
In this case, the content of the incoming call notification is generated based on the method of generating the notification content registered in association with the relevant time zone, and
It is characterized in that the content of the received incoming notification is notified by using the notification means registered in association with the time zone.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for notifying an arrival of an electronic mail, wherein a receiving device for receiving the electronic mail is sent via a server.
The server has received an email specified as a recipient
If the notification is different than the receiving device to which the email is sent
Means that the server notifies the arrival of an email by means of
In the method, the server sends a message to each receiving device.
Information about the recipient of the message and the email
One or a plurality of conditions for determining whether or not a call is received, and a notification unit and a notification content generation method used for notifying an incoming call for each condition are registered in advance in association with each other.
It is possible to read the registered contents from the database
Ri, when you receive an e-mail, the reception of the message
The receiving device that is the destination of the e-mail is identified according to the information about the person, it is determined whether the received e-mail matches the conditions registered in association with the receiving device, and the received e-mail is registered. When it is determined that the specified condition is met, the contents of the incoming call notification are generated based on the method of generating the notification contents registered in association with the condition, and the generated contents of the incoming notification are correlated with the condition. The feature is that the notification is made using the registered notification means.

A message processing system according to a fifth aspect of the present invention is a message processing system in which each destination is designated from a communication network.
The server that receives the message and the message from the server
Any one of the receiving devices
The server receives a message with the specified destination
Message is different from the receiving device to which the message is sent
The server uses the notification means to notify the incoming message.
A message processing system to know, said server
Is a message that should be notified for each incoming device.
Storage means for storing one or a plurality of conditions for determining whether or not, a storage means for associating a notification means used for notifying an incoming call for each condition and a method of generating notification contents, and a message received At this time, whether the received message matches the identification means for identifying the receiving device designated as the destination of the message and the condition stored in the storage means in association with the receiving device identified by the identifying means. When the received message matches the registered condition, the determining means for determining whether or not the received message is received based on the method of generating the notification content registered in association with the condition. The notification content generation means for generating the content of the notification and the content of the incoming notification generated by the notification content generation means are stored in the storage means in association with the condition determined to match by the determination means. Using the notification means are characterized by comprising an incoming call notification means for notifying to the receiver.

A message processing system according to a sixth aspect of the present invention is a message processing system in which each destination is designated from a communication network.
The server that receives the message and the message from the server
Any one of the receiving devices
The server receives a message specifying
When receiving a message, it is different from the receiving device to which the message is sent.
Using the notification means
A message processing system for notifying, said server
Is a message that should be notified for each incoming device.
A storage unit that stores one or more keywords for determining whether or not, a notification unit used for notifying an incoming call for each keyword and a method of generating the notification content in association with each other, and a message received When sending the message
Identification means for identifying the receiving device designated as the destination, and determination means for determining whether or not the received message includes the keyword stored in the storage means in association with the receiving device identified by the identifying means. And a notification that, when the determination means determines that the received message includes a registered keyword, generates the content of the incoming notification based on the method of generating the notification content registered in association with the keyword. a content generation unit, using the notification means the notification content generation means the storage means in association with the contents of the generated call notification on keywords determined to include said discriminating means stores notification to the receiving device And an incoming call notification means for performing the incoming call notification.

A message processing system according to a seventh aspect of the present invention is a message processing system in which each destination is designated from a communication network.
The server that receives the message and the message from the server
Any one of the receiving devices
The server receives a message with the specified destination
Message is different from the receiving device to which the message is sent
The server uses the notification means to notify the incoming message.
A message processing system to know, said server
Is a message that should be notified for each incoming device.
Storage means for storing one or a plurality of incoming call time zones for determining whether or not, a notification means used for notifying an incoming call in each time zone and a method of generating the notification content in association with each other;
When a message is received, the message will be sent to
Identifying means for identifying the designated receiving device, determining means for determining the time when the message is received when the message is received, and the storing means for storing in association with the receiving device identified by the identifying means. A discriminating means for discriminating whether or not the time determined by the discriminating means belongs to the time zone in which the message is received, and when the discriminating means judges that the time when the message is received belongs to the registered time zone, The notification content generation means for generating the content of the incoming notification based on the method of generating the notification content registered in association with the time zone, and the determination means for the content of the incoming notification generated by the notification content generation means. And an incoming call notification means for notifying the receiving device by using the notification means stored in the storage means in association with the determined time zone.

The electronic mail processing system according to the eighth aspect of the present invention is an electronic mail system in which each destination is designated from a communication network.
Server to receive emails and emails from that server
Any one of the receiving devices
The server receives an e-mail with the specified destination
If you do, it is different from the receiving device to which the email is sent.
An electronic mail processing system, wherein the server notifies the arrival of an electronic mail by using a notification means,
Is an e-mail that should notify the incoming call for each receiving device
Storage means for storing one or a plurality of conditions for determining whether or not, a notification means used for notifying an incoming call for each condition and a method of generating the notification content, and storing the email, At this time, the identification means for identifying the receiving device designated as the destination of the e-mail and the e-mail received under the condition stored in the storage means in association with the receiving device identified by the identification means are Discriminating means for discriminating whether or not they match, and when the discriminating means judges that the received e-mail matches the registered condition, the method for generating the notification content registered in association with the condition. Notification content generation means for generating the content of the incoming notification based on
An incoming call notification means for notifying the receiving device using the notification means stored in the storage means in association with the condition determined by the determination means to match the content of the incoming notification generated by the notification content generation means It is characterized by including.

FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram of the message processing of the first invention, the fourth invention, the fifth invention and the eighth invention , the ninth invention, and the tenth invention , showing a process of notifying the arrival of an electronic mail. There is. In the figure, 601 and 602 are servers for transmitting and receiving electronic mail. Server 602, client 6
04, 604 ... Configure the electronic mail system according to the present invention. The server 602 is provided with a script database 603 that stores a script as an execution condition of a process to be executed that is set in association with the clients 604, 604, ... The script is input by an operator through an input means (not shown) of the server 602. The server 602 is a private branch exchange 6.
It is connected to 06. Private branch exchange 606 is connected to a public telephone network (not shown). A pager center 607 and a telephone 608 are connected to the public telephone network. The pager 605 is called from the pager center 607. Further, the telephone 608 includes a lamp that lights up when an incoming call is received.

The case where a keyword associated with the processing by the message processing of the second invention and the sixth invention is used as a script will be described below. The pager 605 rings the process to be executed and the condition (script) for executing the process in the client 604, which is the receiving device, and the title of the incoming e-mail is extracted from the header of the e-mail and the pager is executed. 6
Clients that include "Fukuyama" in the sender name of the header of the email and the processing to be displayed on the display of 05
It is assumed that the electronic mail addressed to No. 4 arrives at the server 602 and is set in the script database 603.

When an e-mail is transmitted from the server 601 to the client 604 and the server 602 receives this e-mail, the server 602 determines whether the sender of the received e-mail includes "Fukuyama". When it is determined that the pager 605 is included, the pager 605 is called and the title of this e-mail is transmitted to the pager 605 and displayed on the display. A person carrying the pager 605 can know the arrival of the electronic mail by ringing the pager 605, and can know the title of the received electronic mail by looking at the display on the display of the pager 605. If the sender name does not include "Fukuyama", do not call the pager.

By linking the electronic mail and the pager as described above, the recipient of the electronic mail can meet the desired conditions even when the power of the client that should receive the electronic mail is off. You can instantly know the arrival of matching emails by pager.
This e-mail incoming notification process is effective when, for example, an e-mail from "Fukuyama" is urgent and therefore the incoming notification is desired, but the incoming notification is not desired by e-mail from another person.

Further, the above-mentioned e-mail incoming notification processing has an advantage that the server does not need the host computer which has called the pager in the conventional communication system because the server calls the pager.

Next, a case will be described in which a script in which processing is associated with each time zone by the message processing according to the third and seventh inventions is used. It is assumed here that a person who carries the pager 605 during work hours from 9:00 to 17:00 and who knows that an electronic mail addressed to the client 604 is received by a person who has a telephone 608 after work hours after 17:00. However, if the time zone is from 9:00 to 17:00, pager 6
If 05 is called and the time zone is from 17:00 to 9:00, the lamp of the telephone 608 is set to be turned on. When an e-mail is transmitted from the server 601 to the client 604 and the server 602 receives the e-mail, the server 602 determines the reception time and identifies the time zone to which the reception time belongs. If the identified time zone is during work hours, the pager is called to notify the arrival of the email. If the identified time zone is outside working hours,
The lamp of the telephone 608 is turned on to notify the arrival of the e-mail.

As described above, it is possible to execute different processing for each incoming time of an electronic mail, which is effective in a situation where the processing to be executed is switched depending on the time of day.

[0028]

1 is a block diagram of an electronic mail system according to the present invention. In the figure, 101 is a LAN server built on the premises of the building. Server 101
Is shown by a functional block diagram. The script database 102 stores the content of the service provided by this electronic mail system and the execution condition of the service associated with this content. Script engine 1
Reference numeral 03 denotes a main control unit of this electronic mail system, which receives a message, determines whether or not the received message meets the execution condition of the process set in the script database 102, and determines that the message is applicable. In this case, a command for executing the process is generated and output to the executing means for executing the process.

The server 101 is further equipped with a mail server 104 for exchanging electronic mail with an external mail server connected via a public telephone network, and a library for storing a document shared by clients connected to the same LAN. 10
5 and a sender / receiver management unit 106 for managing information about senders and receivers of electronic mail.

The sender / receiver management unit 106 uses services such as a registered user name to be a sender or a recipient, a registered user's telephone number, a registered user's facsimile number, a registered user's pager number, and an incoming email notification process. Information such as permissions is stored in the script engine 10
3 or the mail server 104 or the like.

In the server 101, a private branch exchange control unit 107 for controlling a private branch exchange 117, which will be described later, a facsimile gateway 108 and a pocket for signal conversion when receiving an electronic mail to a facsimile and receiving a facsimile signal as an electronic mail. A pager server 109 for calling a bell is provided. Server 101
Is connected to LAN110, and also LAN110
It has a function of inquiring the telephone number of the registered user registered in the sender / receiver management unit 106 from the clients 111, 112, 113 connected to. Client 11
2 and the telephone set 114 are connected to the private branch exchange 11 via the modem 115 for auto dialing from the client 112.
It is connected to 7. Telephone 116 is a private branch exchange 117
Is directly connected to.

The server 101 is connected to the line controller 118 that receives an incoming call. The line control device 118 is connected to the private branch exchange 117. Private branch exchange 117 is connected to public telephone network 119. The public telephone network 119 includes mail servers 120, ..., 120, telephones 121 ,.
121, facsimiles 122, ..., 122 and a pager center (not shown) are connected. .., 123 are wirelessly called from a pager center (not shown).

Next, an example of the cooperation service provided by the above-mentioned electronic mail system will be described with reference to FIG. For the email arrival notification service, the email is the mail server 104.
When the content of the email received when the call arrives at or the reception status of the email satisfies the condition set in the script database 102, a predetermined means is used for the notification destination set in advance in association with the condition. Is a service that notifies you that an email has arrived. Table 1 is a table showing an example of the header of the received electronic mail and the event message issued when the electronic mail is received. As shown in Table 1, in the header of the electronic mail, the sender's name, the recipient's name, the transmission date and time, the priority, the confidentiality, and the title are described in order from the beginning. Also, each field of the event message corresponds to each item of the email header,
It stores that information.

[0034]

[Table 1]

FIG. 2 is a table showing an example of scripts stored in the script database 102. As shown in FIG. 2, the script number, the receiving device, the execution condition, and the process to be executed are described in order from the beginning.

The first script has the execution condition "Fukuyama" as the sender name of the electronic mail received by the client 111.
Is included and the processing to be executed when this condition is satisfied is called by calling a predetermined pager 123, and the subject information of this e-mail is copied by macro processing and displayed on the display of the pager 123. It is set to do. The second script defines the execution condition that "Yamamoto" is included in the sender name of the email received to the client 111, and calls a predetermined pager 123 for the process to be executed when this condition is satisfied. At the same time as the notification, the extension number of the sender is obtained by macro processing from the sender name information of this e-mail and displayed on the display of the pager 123.

The above-mentioned two macro processes are both for specifying the notification contents, and are a copy macro for copying the contents of the predetermined field of the event message and the contents of the predetermined field of the event message, respectively. This is a conversion macro for extracting and using information corresponding to the above from another database (here, the sender / receiver management unit 106).

The script No. 3 determines that the execution condition is that the arrival time of the electronic mail received to the client 112 is between 9:00 and 17:00, and if the condition is satisfied, the process to be executed is performed by a predetermined pager 123. Is set to notify the arrival of an e-mail by a fixed phrase. The fourth script sets the execution condition for client 1
It is set that the arrival time of the e-mail received at 12 is between 17:00 and 9:00 the next day, and that it is set to call a predetermined telephone set 114 to notify the process to be executed when this condition is satisfied. To do.

Further, in these scripts, information on the number of items, data length information for each item, and flag information indicating whether or not it is a macro process are described, and each item is identified based on these information. The number of items that can be set and the data length are variable.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the processing procedure of the above-mentioned e-mail incoming notification processing. Here, it is assumed that the electronic mail arrival notification process addressed to the client 111 is performed according to the first and second scripts. When the email shown in Table 1 arrives at the mail server 104, the script engine 103 identifies the receiving device as the client 111 from the recipient name of the email (S201). The script previously set in association with the client 111 is read from the script database 102 (S202). Then, according to the read script, it is determined whether or not the sender name of the electronic mail includes "Fukuyama" or "Yamamoto" (S203). In this case, since it corresponds to "Fukuyama" of the first script, this If the condition is satisfied, a title notification macro process to be executed is performed (S204).
That is, the predetermined pager 123 is called to notify the arrival of the electronic mail, and the title "change tomorrow's meeting time" is fetched from the header of the electronic mail to retrieve the pager 123.
And display it on the display. If it is determined in S203 that "Fukuyama" and "Yamamoto" are not included, the pager 123 is not called.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing the processing procedure for executing the processing designated by the script in S204. First, based on the flag information, it is determined whether the target process is a macro process (S701). If it is a macro process, it is determined whether the type is a copy macro or a conversion macro (S702), and if it is a copy macro, the contents of a predetermined field of the event message are instructed to execute the process. It is copied to the notification content field of the service message (S703). Then, it is determined whether or not there is another target process (S704), and if not, a service message is issued and the process is executed (S70).
5). If it is determined in S704 that there is another target process, the process returns to S701 and the subsequent processing procedure is repeated. If it is determined in S701 that the macro process is not performed, the process proceeds to S704. If it is determined in step S702 that the macro is a conversion macro, the contents of a predetermined field of the event message are referred to, information corresponding to this is extracted from the sender / receiver management unit 106, and this information is used as a message to be notified (conversion). , In the notification content field of the service message (S70)
6). Then, the process proceeds to S704.

When an electronic mail arrives, the client 111 issues an incoming notification similar to the conventional one. That is, when the power of the client 111 is turned on, the incoming call is notified immediately, and when the power of the client 111 is turned off, the incoming call is notified when the power of the client 111 is turned on next time.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing another processing procedure of the above-mentioned e-mail incoming notification processing. Here, it is assumed that the incoming email notification process for the client 112 is performed according to the scripts No. 3 and No. 4 of FIG. When the email shown in Table 1 arrives at the mail server 104, the script engine 103 identifies the receiving device as the client 112 from the recipient name of the email (S301). The above-mentioned script preset in association with the client 112 is read from the script database 102 (S302). Then, according to the read script, first, the arrival time of the electronic mail is determined by the clock provided in itself (S303).

Next, it is judged whether or not the incoming time belongs to the time zone of the script No. 3 (9:00 to 17:00) (S30).
4) If it is determined that the script does not belong, then it is determined whether or not the script belongs to the time zone of the fourth script (17:00 to 9:00 the next day) (S305). If the arrival time belongs to the time zone of the script No. 4, the telephone 114 is called and the lamp is turned on to notify the arrival of the e-mail (S307).

If it is determined in S304 that the incoming time belongs to the time zone of the third script, pager 1
23 to notify the arrival of the e-mail (S30
6). Further, in this example, it is impossible to determine in S305 that the arrival time does not belong to the time zone of the script No. 4, but if there is no match among the conditions of all the scripts, the pager 123 or The telephone 114 is not called.

When an electronic mail arrives, the client 112 provides the same incoming notification as the conventional one. That is, when the power of the client 112 is turned on, the incoming call is notified immediately, and when the power of the client 112 is turned off, the incoming call is notified when the power of the client 112 is turned on next time.

[0047]

As described above, according to the present invention, in order to select a process to be executed by a received message, a comparison condition associated with the process is set in advance, and the received message matches this comparison condition. In this case, by executing the process associated with the comparison condition, the process executed by the message can be easily changed only by changing the preset comparison condition or the process associated therewith. Further, by setting the keyword for each receiving device, it is possible to set the service provided according to the receiving device. Furthermore, by associating different processes for each time period, it is possible to set the service to be provided according to the time period when the message is received.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an electronic mail system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a chart showing an example of a script according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of message processing according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure for executing processing specified by a script.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of message processing according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram of message processing according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a system configuration diagram of a conventional communication system.

FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram of a conventional electronic mail system.

[Explanation of symbols]

102 Script database 103 script engine 104,120 Mail server 109 pager server 123 pagers

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Junyo Okada               4-1, Kamiodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa               No. 1 within Fujitsu Limited (72) Inventor Tadashige Iwao               4-1, Kamiodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa               No. 1 within Fujitsu Limited (72) Inventor Masanobu Morinaga               4-1, Kamiodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa               No. 1 within Fujitsu Limited (72) Inventor Hiroyuki Onogawa               4-1, Kamiodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa               No. 1 within Fujitsu Limited (72) Inventor Hiromi Hasegawa               4-1, Kamiodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa               No. 1 within Fujitsu Limited                (56) Reference JP-A-4-280535 (JP, A)                 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 6-21969 (JP, A)                 JP-A-3-295336 (JP, A)                 JP-A-6-120978 (JP, A)

Claims (8)

(57) [Claims] 1. A receiver for receiving a message via a server.
The server sends a message specifying a receiving device as a destination.
Is the receiving device to which the message is sent when
In the method in which the server notifies the arrival of a message by using different notifying means, the server determines whether or not the message should be notified for each receiving device.
A database in which one or a plurality of conditions for determining whether or not, a notification means used for notifying an incoming call for each condition, and a method of generating notification contents are associated with each other and registered in advance.
The registered content can be read from the message , and when the message is received, the receiving device to which the message is sent is identified, and the received message is registered in association with the receiving device. generating the content of the incoming call notification based on the generation method of notification content that is registered in association with the condition when it is determined whether or not match, the received message is determined to meet the condition registered in the Then
Incoming call notification method for a message the content of the generated call notification and notifies using a notification means that is registered in association with the condition. 2. A receiver for receiving a message via a server.
The server sends a message specifying a receiving device as a destination.
Is the receiving device to which the message is sent when
In the method in which the server notifies the arrival of a message by using different notifying means, the server determines whether or not the message should be notified for each receiving device.
One or a plurality of keywords for determining whether or not, a notification means used for notifying an incoming call for each keyword, and a method of generating notification content are registered in advance in association with each other.
The registered contents can be read from the database , when the message is received, the receiving device that is the destination of the message is identified, and the received message is registered in association with the receiving device. it is determined whether or not the keyword is included, call based on the method of generating the content of notification in association with the keywords are registered when it has been determined that includes the keywords registered in the received message A method of notifying an incoming call of a message, characterized in that the content of the notification is generated and the content of the generated notification of the incoming call is notified using a notification means registered in association with the keyword. 3. A receiver for receiving a message via a server.
The server sends a message specifying a receiving device as a destination.
Is the receiving device to which the message is sent when
In the method in which the server notifies the arrival of a message by using different notifying means, the server determines whether or not the message should be notified for each receiving device.
Data registered in advance in association with one or a plurality of incoming call time zones for determining whether or not, and a notification means and a notification content generation method used to notify an incoming call for each time zone
The registered content can be read from the base , when the message is received, the receiving device to which the message is sent is identified, and the time when the message is received is registered in association with the receiving device. whether belonging to it has a time zone determined, based on the generation method of notification content that time that the message was received are registered in association with the time zone when determining that belongs to the time zone that is registered A method of notifying an incoming call of a message, characterized in that the contents of the incoming call notification are generated by using the notification means registered in association with the time zone. 4. A receiver for receiving an electronic mail via a server.
The e-mail with the destination device specified as the destination
Is the receiving device to which the e-mail is sent when
In the method in which the server notifies the arrival of an electronic mail by using different notification means, the server includes, for each receiving device, information about the recipient of the message,
To determine whether the e-mail to be notified of the credit
One or a plurality of conditions, for notifying an incoming call for each condition
The registered content is read from the database that is registered in advance in association with the notification means used for
Can be sent to the recipient of the message when the email is received.
The receiving device that is the destination of the e-mail is identified according to the related information, it is determined whether the received e-mail matches the conditions registered in association with the receiving device, and the received e-mail is registered. If it is determined that the condition is met, the content of the incoming notification is generated based on the method of generating the notification content registered in association with the condition,
A method for notifying an incoming call of an e-mail, characterized in that the content of the generated incoming call notification is notified using a notification means registered in association with the condition. 5. Each destination is specified from the communication network.
Server that receives the received message and the message from the server.
A plurality of receiving devices for receiving a message,
The message specified as one of the above
Receiver to which the message is sent when the server receives it
Whether it is a message to be notified to a message processing system using said different notification means the server notifies an incoming message, the server, for each receiving device, the incoming call and
Storage means for storing one or a plurality of conditions for determining whether or not, a notification means used for notifying an incoming call for each condition, and a method of generating the notification content in association with each other; As the destination of the message
And a discriminating means for discriminating whether or not the received message matches the condition stored in the storage means in association with the receiving device identified by the identifying device. And a notification that, when the determination means determines that the received message matches the registered condition, generates the content of the incoming notification based on the method of generating the notification content registered in association with the condition. a content generation unit, using the notification means the notification content generation means the storage means in association with the contents of the generated call notification to the condition in which the determining means is determined to match the stored notification to the receiving device A message processing system, comprising: 6. Each destination is specified from the communication network.
Server that receives the received message and the message from the server.
A plurality of receiving devices for receiving a message,
If you specify any of the above as the destination,
The receiving device to send the message to when the server receives it.
A message processing system in which the server notifies the arrival of a message using a notification means different from that of the storage device , and the server determines whether or not the message should be notified to each receiving device.
Storage means for storing one or a plurality of keywords for determining whether or not, a notification means used for notifying an incoming call for each keyword and a method of generating the content of the notification in association with each other; As the destination of the message
And identifying means for identifying the reception device specified Te, a determining means for identification means determines whether included in the message received keywords said memory means has stored in association with the receiving device to identify If the determination means determines that the received message includes a registered keyword, the content of the incoming notification is generated based on the method of generating the content of the notification registered in association with the keyword. a generation unit, using the notification means the notification content generation means the storage means in association with the contents of the generated call notification on keywords determined to include said discriminating means stores notifies the relevant receiving device A message processing system comprising: an incoming call notification means. 7. Each destination is specified from the communication network.
Server that receives the received message and the message from the server.
A plurality of receiving devices for receiving a message,
The message specified as one of the above
Receiver to which the message is sent when the server receives it
Whether it is a message to be notified to a message processing system using said different notification means the server notifies an incoming message, the server, for each receiving device, the incoming call and
Storage means for storing one or more incoming call time zones for determining whether or not, a notification means used for notifying an incoming call in each time zone, and a method of generating notification content in association with each other, and a message received When the message is sent to
Identifying means for identifying the designated receiving device, determining means for determining the time when the message is received when the message is received, and the storing means for storing in association with the receiving device identified by the identifying means. Determining means for determining whether or not the time determined by the determining means belongs to the time zone in which the message is received, and when the determining means determines that the time at which the message is received belongs to the registered time zone, The notification content generation means for generating the content of the incoming notification based on the method of generating the notification content registered in association with the time zone, and the content of the incoming notification generated by the notification content generation means belong to the determination means. The message processing system, further comprising an incoming call notification means for notifying the receiving device by using the notification means stored in the storage means in association with the time zone determined to be Stem. 8. A destination is designated from a communication network.
Server that receives the e-mail, and the e-mail from the server.
And a plurality of receiving devices for receiving the
Emails that have any of
Receiver to which the email is sent when the server receives it
Whether using said different notification means the server is an electronic mail processing system for notifying an incoming e-mail, the server, for each receiving device, an electronic mail to be notified of incoming and
Storage means for storing one or a plurality of conditions for determining whether or not, a notification means used for notifying an incoming call for each condition, and a method for generating the notification content in association with each other; , The identification means for identifying the receiving device specified as the destination of the e-mail , and the receiving device that is associated with the receiving device identified by the identifying means and received under the condition stored in the storage means. Discrimination means for discriminating whether or not the e-mail matches, and if the discrimination means judges that the received e-mail matches the registered condition, the notification content registered in association with the condition. And a storage means for storing the content of the incoming call notification generated by the notification content generation means in association with the condition determined to match by the determination means. do it Electronic mail processing system, characterized in that it comprises using the notification means and the incoming call notification means for notifying to the reception device that.