E-mail server, e-mail terminal and programs

• US 20050210111A1
• Filed: 08/25/2004
• Published: 09/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Fukudome, Kenji
• Application Number:
  US10/924,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20050210111A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes

Abstract

An e-mail terminal receives a URL and specification information which specifies a condition for obtaining web page data indicated by the URL, and transmits an e-mail which includes the URL and the specification information to an e-mail server. The e-mail server receives the e-mail which includes the URL and the specification information, and obtains the web page data indicated by the URL, according to the specification information. Then, the e-mail server attaches the web page data to the e-mail and transfers the e-mail to other e-mail server or e-mail terminal.

Claims

1. An e-mail server, comprising:

an e-mail reception unit operable to receive an e-mail which includes a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and specification information which specifies a condition for obtaining web page data indicated by the URL;

a judging unit operable to judge whether the condition is fulfilled;

a web page data obtaining unit operable to obtain the web page data in the case where the judging unit judges that the condition is fulfilled; and

a web page data transmission unit operable to transmit the obtained web page data to a destination address of the e-mail.

2. The e-mail server of claim 1, wherein

the condition includes (i) specification of a period for obtaining the web page data or (ii) specification of a web client which is to obtain the web page data, and

the judging unit judges (i) whether current time is within the period or (ii) whether the e-mail server is identical with the web client.

3. The e-mail server of claim 1, wherein

the web page data transmission unit attaches the web page data to the e-mail which is received by the e-mail reception unit, and transmits the e-mail.

4. The e-mail server of claim 1, wherein

the judging unit performs the judgment when the e-mail reception unit receives the e-mail.

5. The e-mail server of claim 1, further comprising:

a transmission request reception unit operable to receive a transmission request for transmitting the e-mail received by the e-mail reception unit, wherein

the web page data obtaining unit obtains the web page data when the transmission request reception unit receives the transmission request.

6. The e-mail server of claim 1, wherein

the URL is inserted in a predetermined header field of the e-mail.

7. The e-mail server of claim 1, wherein

the URL is inserted in any of MIME parts of the e-mail.

8. An e-mail server, comprising:

a destination address storage unit operable to store one or more destination addresses;

an e-mail reception unit operable to receive an e-mail which includes a URL (Uniform Resource Locator);

a web page data obtaining unit operable to obtain web page data indicated by the URL in the case where a destination address of the e-mail received by the e-mail reception unit is identical with any of the destination addresses stored in the destination address storage unit; and

a web page data transmission unit operable to transmit the obtained web page data to the destination address of the e-mail received by the e-mail reception unit.

9. A program which instructs a computer to perform:

an e-mail reception step for receiving an e-mail which includes a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and specification information which specifies a condition for obtaining web page data indicated by the URL;

a judging step for judging whether the condition is fulfilled;

a web page data obtaining step for obtaining the web page data in the case where it is judged that the condition is fulfilled; and

a web page data transmission step for transmitting the obtained web page data to a destination address of the e-mail.

10. An e-mail terminal, comprising:

a URL reception unit operable to receive a URL (Uniform Resource Locator);

a specification information reception unit operable to receive specification information which specifies a condition for obtaining web page data indicated by the URL;

an e-mail editing unit operable to edit an e-mail so as to include the URL and the specification information in the e-mail; and

a web page data transmission unit operable to transmit, to an e-mail server, the e-mail edited by the e-mail editing unit.

11. The e-mail terminal of claim 10, wherein

the condition includes (i) specification of a period for obtaining the web page data or (ii) specification of a web client which is to obtain the web page data.

12. The e-mail terminal of claim 10, wherein

the e-mail editing unit inserts the URL in a predetermined header field of the e-mail.

13. A program which instructs a computer to perform:

a URL reception step for receiving a URL (Uniform Resource Locator);

a specification information receiving step for receiving a specification information which specifies a condition for obtaining web page data indicated by the URL;

an e-mail editing step for editing an e-mail so as to include the URL and the specification information in an e-mail; and

an e-mail transmission step for transmitting, to an e-mail server, the e-mail edited by the e-mail editing step.