Method and Device for Monitoring the Traffic of Electronic Messages

• US 20080016162A1
• Filed: 06/13/2005
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Conxpert Holding GmbH
• Original Assignee: Conxpert Holding GmbH
• Inventors: Monsees, Marco, Meentzen, Christian
• Application Number:
  US11/570,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20080016162A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring outgoing electronic messaging traffic from a sender (1). To present a device for monitoring outgoing electronic messaging traffic sent by a sender (1), informing the user whether and which electronic messages have not reached their destination, or only with a delay, or have not been read by the recipient (2), it is proposed to provide:

receiving means for receiving information about a sent electronic message and for receiving a control message containing selected information about receipt and/or acknowledgement of the electronic message by a recipient (6),

storage means (9) for storing information for identifying the sent electronic message and a time period within which the control message is to be received, checking means (13) for checking the receipt of control messages,

correlation means (14) for correlating a received control message with the associated sent electronic message, based on the information for identifying the electronic message,

inspection means (15) for inspecting the content of the control message and

notification means (16) for outputting a notification when no control message has been received within the specified time periods, or when the control message indicates that an error occurred when the recipient (6) received and/or read the electronic message.

Claims

9-1. The monitoring device according to claim 1,

wherein the receiving means is configured to receive e-mails, SMSs, EMSs, MMSs or an electronic message using a peer-to-peer protocol.

14. A method for monitoring outgoing electronic messaging traffic from a sender, comprising the steps:

receiving information about an electronic message from a sender,

storing information for identifying the sent electronic message and a specified time period within which the control message is to be received,

checking the receipt of control messages,

correlating a received control message with the associated sent electronic message, based on the information for identifying the electronic message,

inspecting the content of the control message and

outputting a notification when no control message has been received within the specified time period, or when the control message indicates that an error occurred when the recipient (6) received and/or read the electronic message.

15. A computer program comprising computer program code for controlling a computers used to perform the steps of the method according to claim 14 when the computer program is executed on a computer.