Method for providing e-mail service

• US 20020032743A1
• Filed: 09/07/2001
• Published: 03/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Hong, Soon Cheol, Seol, Hyeong Sook, Kim, Dae Ki, Lee, Kyo Weon, Lee, Jae Seock, Kim, Hee Bae, Park, Bong Suk, Lee, Sang Jun, Nam, Sang Cheol
• Application Number:
  US09/947,386
• Publication Number:
  US 20020032743A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A method of providing a web-based e-mail service is disclosed, in which a user can conveniently check and manage e-mail messages. The method of providing a web-based e-mail service on a web site to a user having an e-mail account, the method includes the steps of: displaying basic information of each of incoming/outgoing e-mail messages in a predetermined frame of the web site when the user accesses the web site to check the e-mail messages; selecting a desired e-mail message by the user; displaying detailed information of the desired e-mail message in an incoming message displaying frame if the selected message is an incoming message; and displaying detailed information of the desired e-mail message in an outgoing message displaying frame if the selected message is an outgoing message.

Claims

1. A method of providing a web-based e-mail service on a web site to a user having an e-mail account, the method comprising the steps of:

displaying basic information of each of incoming/outgoing e-mail messages in a predetermined frame of the web site when the user accesses the web site to check the e-mail messages;

selecting a desired e-mail message by the user;

displaying detailed information of the desired e-mail message in an incoming message displaying frame if the selected message is an incoming message; and

displaying detailed information of the desired e-mail message in an outgoing message displaying frame if the selected message is an outgoing message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the basic information of each of the incoming/outgoing e-mail messages includes at least one of recipient/sender data, a brief description of the incoming/outgoing e-mail messages, and e-mail message received/sent dates.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the text shown in the incoming message displaying frame cannot be altered, and the outgoing message displaying frame has a space in which the user can type in a reply message to the incoming e-mail message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user inputs at least one of the sent date, a mail account or name of a recipient, an outgoing e-mail message, and a brief description of the e-mail message in the outgoing message displaying frame, so as to reply to the incoming e-mail message and to forward the incoming e-mail message to another user.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of searching a DB corresponding to the web site accessed by the user to display basic information on e-mail messages not read by the user on a corresponding screen.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the basic information of the e-mail mails not read includes sender data, a brief description of the e-mail messages, and the sent date.

7. A method of providing a web-based e-mail service on a web site to a user having an e-mail account, the method comprising the steps of:

displaying the text of an e-mail service, which is selected by the user among various e-mail services provided from an e-mail service system, on a screen in a state where the user accesses the web site to check e-mail messages;

requesting search conditions to implement search according to conditions of the selected e-mail service;

searching a corresponding DB based on information of the search conditions input by the user to display the information; and

displaying detailed information of an e-mail message requested by the user among displayed e-mail messages.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the e-mail services provided from the e-mail service system include an e-mail service for checking incoming/outgoing e-mail messages and an e-mail service for sending an e-mail message, and the search conditions for the selected e-mail service include at least one of an item for a required e-mail message type of the incoming/outgoing e-mail messages, an item for a desired search period from the incoming/outgoing e-mail messages, an item for respective senders, and an item for displaying read e-mail messages, e-mail messages not read, or all the incoming/outgoing e-mail messages.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein each of the incoming/outgoing e-mail messages has a message sequence number for checking its status.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the message sequence numbers of the incoming/outgoing e-mail messages are sequentially assigned when a sender successively sends e-mail messages on even date.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the message sequence numbers of the incoming/outgoing e-mail messages are sequentially assigned depending on the time when the e-mail messages are sent, so as to group e-mail messages sent from a sender, related e-mail messages sent from different senders, and reply e-mail messages.

12. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of searching a DB corresponding to the web site accessed by the user to display basic information of e mail messages not read by the user or a corresponding screen.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the basic information of the e-mail messages not read includes sender data, a brief description of the e-mail messages, and the sent date.