Method of reading filles from remote server by email

• US 20090150404A1
• Filed: 12/06/2007
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alpha Networks Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Alpha Networks INS
• Inventors: Lin, Ying-Chien
• Application Number:
  US11/987,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20090150404A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

In a method of reading files from a remote server by an email, the method is applied in a network system having a remote server, a computer and the Internet. The remote server includes a database for storing files and is connected with the computer through the Internet. Users can create an email including a request instruction at the computer and send the email to the remote server for a request of reading files from the remote server. After the remote server reads the email, a file list is replied to the computer according to the request instruction. The user can create another email including a select instruction and a file location and send such email to the remote server. After the remote server receives such email, a corresponding file in the database is returned to the computer according to the select instruction and the file location.

Claims

1. A method of reading a file from a remote server by an email, applied in a network system, and the system comprising a remote server, a computer and the Internet, wherein the remote server includes a database for storing a plurality of files, and the computer connects the remote server through the Internet, and the computer is provided for users to create an email, and the email includes a request instruction for users to issue a request to the remote server for reading the files, and the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting the email to an account in the remote server by the computer via the Internet, after the computer has created the email;

replying a file list to the computer after the remote server has read the email in the account according to the request instruction carried in the email, wherein the file list is a list of the files in the database;

transmitting another email to the remote server by the computer via the Internet, after the computer has created the another email including a select instruction and a file location of a desired reading file; and

returning the corresponding file from the database to the computer in an email format by the remote server according to the select instruction and the file location in the another email.

2. The method of reading a file from a remote server by an email as recited in claim 1, wherein before the remote server reads the email in the account, the method further comprises the step of:

periodically checking whether or not there is an email in the account by the remote server.

3. The method of reading a file from a remote server by an email as recited in claim 2, wherein the email further comprises a user name and an account password.

4. The method of reading a file from a remote server by an email as recited in claim 3, wherein if the remote server finds an email in the account, the remote server will verify the user name and the account password in the email.

5. The method of reading a file from a remote server by an email as recited in claim 4, wherein the computer transmits the email to an account in the remote server via the Internet after the email is created at the computer, and the method further comprises the step of:

creating the account on the remote server through the computer.

6. The method of reading a file from a remote server by an email as recited in claim 5, wherein the remote server is a network-attached storage (NAS).

7. A method of reading a file from a remote server by an email, applied in a network system, and the system comprising a remote server, a computer and the Internet, wherein the remote server includes a database for storing a plurality of files, and the computer connects the remote server through the Internet, and the computer is provided for users to create an email, and the email includes a request instruction for users to issue a request to the remote server for reading the files, and the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting the email to an account in the remote server by the computer via the Internet, after the computer has created the email; and

returning the corresponding file from the database to the computer in an email format by the remote server according to the select instruction and the file location in the email, after the remote server has read the email in the account.

8. The method of reading a file from a remote server by an email as recited in claim 7, wherein before the remote server reads the email in the account, the method further comprises the step of:

periodically checking whether or not there is an email in the account by the remote server.

9. The method of reading a file from a remote server by an email as recited in claim 8, wherein the email further includes a user name and an account password.

10. The method of reading a file from a remote server by an email as recited in claim 9, wherein if the remote server finds an email in the account, the user name and the account password included in the email will be verified.

11. The method of reading a file from a remote server by an email as recited in claim 10, wherein the computer transmits the email to an account in the remote server via the Internet after the email is created at the computer, and the method further comprises the step of:

creating the account on the remote server through the computer.

12. The method of reading a file from a remote server by an email as recited in claim 11, wherein the remote server is network-attached storage (NAS).