Management system, management method and program

• US 20050223103A1
• Filed: 08/18/2004
• Published: 10/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Abe, Yuuichi, Yuzawa, Naoki, Hozumi, Kanji
• Application Number:
  US10/920,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20050223103A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases

Abstract

A mail server 302 calculates a reject priority for every mail source address of an E-mail on the basis of a date/time when receiving the E-mail from a sender terminal 100, further, the mail server 302, if a mail source address of the mail which should be rejected, count of the E-mails exceeds a registerable mail address count in a receipt reject address list 304, executes control to register the mail addresses having higher reject priorities preferentially in the receipt reject address list 304.

Claims

1. A management system for managing communication partner terminals which should be rejected in communications, comprising:

a retaining unit retaining pieces of identifying information of the communication partner terminals which should be rejected in the communications for predetermined number of cases;

a priority setting unit setting, when a predetermined operation corresponding to a receipt rejection is performed, a receipt reject priority of the communication partner terminal'"'"'s identifying information associated with the predetermined operation on the basis of a timestamp of the communication with the communication partner terminal; and

an identifying information registering unit retaining said retaining unit with the identifying information of the communication partner terminals for the predetermined number of cases in the order of descending the receipt reject priorities.

2. A management system according to claim 1, wherein said priority setting unit includes a calculation unit calculating numerical values associated with plural pieces of timestamps of communications with the communication partner terminals, and

said identifying information registering unit retains said retaining unit with the identifying information of the communication partner terminal corresponding to the predetermined operation for the predetermined number of the cases on the basis of the numerical value associated with the timestamp of communication.

3. A management system according to claim 1, wherein said retaining unit fixedly retains the identifying information of the communication partner terminals which should be rejected, and

said priority setting unit sets the receipt reject priority with respect to identifying information of the communication partner terminals other than the fixedly-retained identifying information of the communication partner terminals which should be rejected.

4. A management system according to claim 1, further comprising information content comparing unit for comparing, when performing the communication with the communication partner terminal specified by first identifying information, a content of information sent from the communication partner terminal with a content of information sent in the past from a communication partner terminal which should be rejected specified by second identifying information other than the first identifying information,

wherein said priority setting unit, when said information content comparing unit judges that the contents of these pieces of information are coincident with each other, gives increased receipt reject priority to the first identifying information.

5. A management system according to claim 4, wherein said priority setting unit, when said information content comparing unit judges that the contents of these pieces of information are coincident with each other, further gives decreased receipt reject priority to the second identifying information which is corresponding to communication partner terminal which should be rejected, other than the first identifying information.

6. A management method of managing communication partner terminals which should be rejected in communications, comprising:

getting retaining unit stored with pieces of identifying information of the communication partner terminals which should be rejected in the communications for predetermined number of cases;

setting, when a predetermined operation corresponding to a receipt rejection is performed, a receipt reject priority of the communication partner terminal'"'"'s identifying information associated with the predetermined operation on the basis of a timestamp of the communication with the communication partner terminal; and

retaining said retaining unit with the identifying information of the communication partner terminals for the predetermined number of cases in the order of descending the receipt reject priorities.

7. A management method according to claim 6, when setting, calculating numerical values associated with plural pieces of timestamps of communications with the communication partner terminals, and

when retaining, retaining said retaining unit with the identifying information of the communication partner terminal corresponding to the predetermined operation for the predetermined number of the case on the basis of the numerical value associated with the timestamp of communication.

8. A management method according to claim 6, when retaining, fixedly retaining said retaining unit with the identifying information of the communication partner terminals which should be rejected, and

when setting, setting the receipt reject priority with respect to identifying information of the communication partner terminal other than the fixedly-retained identifying information of the communication partner terminals which should be rejected.

9. A management method according to claim 6, further comparing, when performing the communication with the communication partner terminal specified by first identifying information, a content of information sent from the communication partner terminal with a content of information sent in the past from a communication partner terminal which should be rejected specified by second identifying information other than the first identifying information,

when setting, when it is judged with comparing that the contents of these pieces of information are coincident with each other, giving increased receipt reject priority to the first identifying information.

10. A management method according to claim 9, when setting, when it is judged with comparing that the contents of these pieces of information are coincident with each other, further giving decreased receipt reject priority to the second identifying which is corresponding to communication partner terminal which should be rejected, other than the first identifying information.

11. A computer program running on a computer for making a computer manage communication partner terminals which should be rejected in communications, comprising:

instructions for getting retaining unit stored with pieces of identifying information of the communication partner terminals which should be rejected in the communications for predetermined number of cases;

instructions for setting, when a predetermined operation corresponding to a receipt rejection is performed, a receipt reject priority of the communication partner terminal'"'"'s identifying information associated with the predetermined operation on the basis of a timestamp of the communication with the communication partner terminal; and

instructions for retaining said retaining unit with the identifying information of the communication partner terminals for the predetermined number of cases in the order of descending the receipt reject priorities.

12. A computer program according to claim 11, wherein said instructions for setting includes instructions for calculating numerical values associated with plural pieces of timestamps of communications with the communication partner terminals, and

said instructions for retaining involves retaining said retaining unit with the identifying information of the communication partner terminal corresponding to the predetermined operation for the predetermined number of the case on the basis of the numerical value associated with the timestamp of communication.

13. A computer program according to claim 11, wherein said instructions for retaining involves fixedly retaining said retaining unit with the identifying information of the communication partner terminals which should be rejected, and

said instructions for setting involves setting the receipt reject priority with respect to identifying information of the communication partner terminal other than the fixedly-retained identifying information of the communication partner terminals which should be rejected.

14. A computer program according to claim 11, further comprising instructions for comparing, when performing the communication with the communication partner terminal specified by first identifying information, a content of information sent from the communication partner terminal with a content of information sent in the past from a communication partner terminal which should be rejected specified by second identifying information other than the first identifying information,

wherein said instructions for setting involves, when it is judged by said instructions for comparing that the contents of these pieces of information are coincident with each other, giving increased receipt reject priority to the first identifying information.

15. A computer program according to claim 14, wherein said instructions for setting involves, when it is judged by said instructions for comparing that the contents of these pieces of information are coincident with each other, further giving decreased receipt reject priority to the second identifying which is corresponding to communication partner terminal which should be rejected, other than the first identifying information.