Method of inquiring e-mail sending status in real time

• US 20070214219A1
• Filed: 03/08/2006
• Published: 09/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ultra Quantum E-Ware Research Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Ultra Quantum E-Ware Research Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chen, Peng-Kwang
• Application Number:
  US11/370,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20070214219A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/23 Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages

Abstract

A method of inquiring status of a sent e-mail includes displaying a screen of e-mail list having records each including size, subject, sending time, success times, failure times, and times to be sent; clicking the e-mail in the list to enter a screen about details of sent e-mails including a success sending portion and a failure sending portion including status description for indicating the cause of failure; linking the status description to enter a description screen including a flowchart for illustrating steps of the e-mail sending wherein the step is highlighted if an error is occurred therein and a corresponding description is shown; and showing an icon in an area on a computer screen for indicating whether the sent e-mail is a success or not. The sender is able to immediately send the failed e-mail again after correcting the error as shown.

Claims

1. In a sub-system of e-mail sending system a method of inquiring status of a sent e-mail in real time comprising:

displaying a screen of e-mail list having the sent e-mail added therein sequentially wherein the list comprises a plurality of records each representing one of the sent e-mails including serial number, size, subject, sending time, success times, failure times, and times to be sent;

a sender is capable of clicking the e-mail in the list to enter a screen about details of sent e-mails; and

the screen about details of sent e-mails is shown as a Windows screen or a Web page and includes a success sending portion having a plurality of records each including fields of recipient, date and time of first sending, sending times, time consumed, date and time of the beginning of last sending, date and time of the ending of last sending, and processing time, and a failure sending portion having a plurality of records reach including fields of recipient, date and time of first sending, sending times, time consumed, date and time of the beginning of last sending, date and time of next sending, date and time of the ending of last sending, processing time, and status description for indicating the cause of failure;

linking the status description to enter a description screen including a flowchart for illustrating steps of the e-mail sending wherein the step is highlighted if an error is occurred therein and a corresponding description is shown; and

showing an icon in an area on a computer screen for indicating whether the sent e-mail is a success or not.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the icon is linked to the screen about details of sent e-mails such that clicking the icon will enter the screen about details of sent e-mails.