E-mail processing server

• US 20050193065A1
• Filed: 09/22/2003
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogasawara, Shino, Sugimoto, Mika
• Application Number:
  US10/665,501
• Publication Number:
  US 20050193065A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/34 Betting or bookmaking, e.g. Internet betting
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3225 Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/329 Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards

Abstract

An SMTP server 100 for relaying an e-mail which is transmitted between cellular phones and performing a lottery to award a prize to users of the cellular phones, has a receiving portion 101 for receiving the e-mail from a sender-side cellular phone 200, a sending portion 103 for sending the e-mail to a receiver-side cellular phone 300, a send information storing portion 104 for storing send information of the e-mail that is received by receiving portion 101 every cellular phone as the destination of the e-mail, and a lot-drawing portion 105 for deciding a winning probability of a drawing of lots applied to a user of the receiver-side cellular phone 300 according to the send information stored in the send information storing portion 104 and then executing a lot-drawing to the user of the receiver-side cellular phone 300.

Claims

1. An e-mail processing server for relaying an e-mail which is transmitted between mobile terminals and performing a lottery to award a prize to user of the mobile terminal, comprising:

sending/receiving means for receiving an e-mail from a first mobile terminal and sending the e-mail to a second mobile terminal;

storing means for storing send information of the e-mail, which is sent from the sending/receiving means, every mobile terminal as destination of the e-mail;

winning probability deciding means for deciding a winning probability of a drawing of lots applied to a user of the second mobile terminal according to the send information stored in the storing means; and

lot-drawing means for executing a lot-drawing at the winning probability decided by the winning probability deciding means.

2. The e-mail processing server according to claim 1, wherein

the sending/receiving means involves:

receiving means for receiving the e-mail from the first mobile terminal;

notice information sending means for sending notice information, which informs an event that the e-mail is sent, to the second mobile terminal;

request-to-send information receiving means for receiving request-to-send information, which is sent from the second mobile terminal, for requesting to send an e-mail that the notice information shows; and

sending means for sending an e-mail to the second mobile terminal in response to the request-to-send information received by the request-to-send information receiving means.

5. The e-mail processing server according to claim 1, further comprising:

acquiring means for acquiring storing location information showing storing location on a network, where contents of a prize awarded to a user who won the lot-drawing are stored, from a database; and

storing location information sending means for attaching the storing location information acquired by the acquiring means to an e-mail, which is to be sent to a mobile terminal of the user who won the lot-drawing, and then sending the e-mail to the mobile terminal.

7. The e-mail processing server according to claim 1, wherein the prize involves digital contents that are enabled to play with the mobile terminal, and further comprising:

acquiring means for acquiring storing location information showing storing location on a network, where the digital contents are stored, from a database; and

storing location information sending means for attaching the storing location information acquired by the acquiring means to an e-mail, which is to be sent to a mobile terminal of the user who won the lot-drawing, and then sending the e-mail to the mobile terminal.

3. An e-mail processing server for relaying an e-mail which is transmitted between mobile terminals and performing a lottery to award a prize to users of the mobile terminals, comprising:

sending/receiving means for receiving an e-mail from a first mobile terminal and sending the e-mail to a second mobile terminal;

storing means for storing send information of the e-mail, which is sent by the sending/receiving means, every mobile terminal as destination of the e-mail; and

lot-drawing means for executing a lot-drawing applied to a user of the second mobile terminal when the send information stored in the storing means satisfy predetermined condition.

4. The e-mail processing server according to claim 3, wherein

the sending/receiving means involves:

receiving means for receiving the e-mail from the first mobile terminal;

notice information sending means for sending notice information, which informs an event that the e-mail is sent, to the second mobile terminal;

request-to-send information receiving means for receiving request-to-send information, which is sent from the second mobile terminal, for requesting to send an e-mail that that the notice information shows; and

sending means for sending an e-mail to the second mobile terminal in response to the request-to-send information received by the request-to-send information receiving means.

6. The e-mail processing server according to claim 3, further comprising:

acquiring means for acquiring storing location information showing storing location on a network, where contents of a prize awarded to a user who won the lot-drawing are stored, from a database; and

storing location information sending means for attaching the storing location information acquired by the acquiring means to an e-mail, which is to be sent to a mobile terminal of the user who won the lot-drawing, and then sending the e-mail to the mobile terminal.

8. The e-mail processing server according to claim 3, wherein the prize involves digital contents that are enabled to play with the mobile terminal, and further comprising:

acquiring means for acquiring storing location information showing storing location on a network, where the digital contents are stored, from a database; and

storing location information sending means for attaching the storing location information acquired by the acquiring means to an e-mail, which is to be sent to a mobile terminal of the user who won the lot-drawing, and then sending the e-mail to the mobile terminal.