Rapid email reading system and method of combining multiple electronic mailboxes and a short message

• US 20060047763A1
• Filed: 11/12/2004
• Published: 03/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Original Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Inventors: Lin, Jyun-Naih
• Application Number:
  US10/986,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20060047763A1
• 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

An email reading system and method of combining multiple electronic mailboxes and a short message, which has at least one Internet mail server, an Internet message gateway and at least one handheld device. The message gateway applies the POP3 protocol for sending a command of processing email to the mail server, checks corresponding electronic mails (emails) in the mailboxes on the at least one mail server in accordance with a predetermined interval and filters the emails in accordance with a predetermined search condition, such that when one or more of the emails meet the search condition, the message gateway sends a short message to the handheld device. Accordingly, the user can send a short message command to the message gateway through the handheld device for accessing or deleting the one or more emails.

Claims

1. An email reading system of combining multiple electronic mailboxes and a short message, essentially comprising:

at least one Internet mail server;

an Internet message gateway with a mobile transceiver, which transmits and receives a mobile signal through a mobile channel or communicates with an SMSC/MMSC server capable of transmitting and receiving short message through the Internet to thus transmit and receive the mobile signal through the SMSC/MMSC server, and applies an Internet protocol to the at least one mail server for sending a command of processing email; and

at least one handheld device, which uses the mobile channel to receive a short message for an email notice and transmit the command of processing email through the message gateway to a respective electronic mailbox of the mail server;

wherein the message gateway checks emails in the electronic mailbox through the Internet protocol in accordance with a predetermined interval and filters the emails in accordance with a predetermined search condition, such that when a new email among the emails meets the search condition, the message gateway sends the short message to the handheld device.

2. The reading system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the message gateway applies the POP3 protocol for sending the command.

3. The reading system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the search condition has email senders or keywords of email subjects.

4. The reading system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the short message sent to the handheld device has serial numbers, email senders and subjects.

5. The reading system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the handheld device uses short message commands to read or delete the new email through the message gateway.

6. The reading system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the message gateway has a message table to record corresponding fields of all emails meeting with the search condition.

7. The reading system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the fields have a serial number field, a position field and a message-ID field.

8. The reading system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the position field records corresponding positions of the emails in the mail server.

9. The reading system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the message-ID field records corresponding message-IDs of mail headers of the emails.

10. An email reading method of combining multiple electronic mailboxes and a short message, wherein the multiple electronic mailboxes are located in at least one mail server on the Internet, and a command of processing email is sent by an Internet message gateway through the at least one mail server to the mailboxes, the method essentially comprising the steps:

(A) using the message gateway to check electronic mails (emails) in the electronic mailboxes on the at least one mail server in accordance with a predetermined interval;

(B) using the message gateway to filter the emails in accordance with a predetermined search condition;

(C) using the message gateway to send a short message to a handheld device when a new email among the emails meets the search condition; and

(D) using the handheld device to read or delete the new email in accordance with a short message through the message gateway.

11. The reading method as claimed in claim 10, wherein in step (A), the message gateway applies the POP3 protocol for sending the command of processing email.

12. The reading method as claimed in claim 10, wherein in step (B), the search condition has email senders or keywords of email subjects.

13. The reading method as claimed in claim 10, wherein in step (C), the short message sent to the handheld device has serial numbers, email senders and subjects.