Method for receiving and classifying normal e-mail and advertising e-mail

• US 20060123091A1
• Filed: 03/21/2005
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bo-Tai Ho
• Original Assignee: Bo-Tai Ho
• Inventors: Ho, Bo-Tai
• Granted Patent: US 7,519,671 B2
• 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 for receiving and classifying normal e-mail and advertising e-mail is designed to establish a harmony relationship between the advertising-mail sender and the e-mail user, the method comprises: setting up a “normal inbox” and a “advertising inbox” in a mail-receiving-and-sending software for receiving the normal e-mail and the advertising e-mail respectively; making a design to make the “normal inbox” only accept e-mails with addresses which are listed on a list of permissible addresses beforehand by the user, and make “advertising inbox” only accept e-mails which are solicited by the user beforehand. Advertising-mail sender should classify the advertising e-mail thereof according to a “classification list”, and attach identifying information to the advertising e-mail to be sent for enabling the public mail server to distinguish, an advertising e-mail without such identifying information is regarded as normal mail.

Claims

1. A method for receiving and classifying normal e-mail and advertising e-mail, comprising:

(a) classifying e-mails into normal e-mail and advertising e-mail;

(b) setting up a “

normal inbox” and

an “

advertising inbox”

in a mail-receiving-and-sending software for receiving the normal e-mail and the advertising e-mail respectively;

(c) making a design to make the “

normal inbox”

only accept e-mail with addresses which are listed on a list of permissible addresses beforehand by a user, and make “

advertising inbox”

only accept e-mails which are solicited by the user beforehand;

(d) clicking the right mouse button on the “

normal inbox”

, an item of “

permissible addresses”

appears, and clicking the right mouse button on the “

permissible addresses”

, a frame appears on which the user can make a list of permissible addresses, only the e-mails with the addresses included on the list of the permissible addresses will be received, when the user receives e-mail through the internet, the content of the “

permissible addresses”

will be automatically uploaded to and stored in a public mail server, the public mail server having a function of sending the e-mails with the permissible addresses to the “

normal inbox”

for the user, and other e-mails will not be sent to the “

normal inbox”

;

(e) clicking the right mouse button on the “

advertising inbox”

, a classification list including different business items appears for the user to choose, the user can tick a box before an interested business item to indicate that the advertising e-mail belonging to the selected business item is acceptable, and the advertising e-mails belonging to unselected business items will be blocked, when the user receives e-mail through the internet, the content of the “

classification list”

will be automatically uploaded to and stored in the public mail server, the public mail server having a function of sending the advertising e-mail belonging to the selected business item to the “

advertising inbox”

for the user, and other advertising emails belonging to the unselected business items will not be sent to the “

advertising inbox”

;

(f) asking advertising-mail sender to classify the advertising e-mail thereof according to the above-mentioned “

classification list”

, and attach identifying information to the advertising e-mail to be sent, so as to enable the public mail server to distinguish, an advertising e-mail without such identifying information is regarded as normal e-mail;

(g) if the user fails to make a list of “

permissible addresses”

, the public mail server will accept all e-mails that are arrived in user'"'"'s mail box, and will reject all advertising mails if the user fails to select an item on the “

classification list”

.

2. The method for receiving and classifying normal e-mail and advertising e-mail as claimed in claim 1, wherein the public mail server can block unsolicited mail by taking use of the “

permissible addresses” and

the “

classification list”

previously defined and uploaded by the user, when the user is not online.

3. The method for receiving and classifying normal e-mail and advertising e-mail as claimed in claim 1, wherein the functions of (d), (e), (g) of the public mail server is set up in the mail-receiving-and-sending software, so that the e-mails will be received, classified and blocked by user'"'"'s personal computer.