A system for notifying a destination terminal that electronic mail has reached a host computer
First Claim
1. An electronic mailing system having at least two terminals and a host computer connected through a communication line, one terminal sending an electronic mail to said host computer, said host computer storing said electronic mail, and the other terminal of a subscriber receiving said electronic mail stored in said host computer, comprising.said sending terminal including means for generating information designating a type of mail-receiving notice according to a sender'"'"'s request of how urgently mail-reception is noticed, adding the designating information to an electronic mail to be sent, and sending the added result to said host computer;
- said host computer including means for receiving said information designating the type of the mail-receiving notice from said sending terminal and means for generating the mail-receiving notice information based on the received information designating the type mail-receiving notice and means for sending the generated mail-receiving notice to said receiving terminal; and
said receiving terminal including means for receiving the mail-receiving notice information from said host computer and means for notifying the user on said receiving terminal of that said electronic mail is received in said host computer according to the received mail-receiving notice information.
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Abstract
A mail-receive noticing system and method and provided for automatically notifying a destination terminal of a fact that an electronic mail reaches a host computer. A mail-sending terminal includes a mail-receiving notice instructing device for accepting a mail-receiving notice instruction of a sender on the sending terminal given depending upon urgency or importance level of the mail and an information sending device for sending mail-receiving notice instructing information generated based on the accepted mail-receiving notice instruction, together with a sending signal of an electronic mail to a host computer. The host computer includes a device for receiving the mail-receiving notice instructing information from a sending terminal and processing devices for generating a mail-receiving notice indication based on the received mail-receiving notice instructing information and sending the same to a receiving terminal. The destination terminal includes a mail-receive noticing device actuated by the received mail-receiving notice indication for noticing that an electronic mail reaches the host computer to a user in an informing fashion different along urgency or importance level of the mail instructed by the sender.
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Citations
10 Claims
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1. An electronic mailing system having at least two terminals and a host computer connected through a communication line, one terminal sending an electronic mail to said host computer, said host computer storing said electronic mail, and the other terminal of a subscriber receiving said electronic mail stored in said host computer, comprising.
said sending terminal including means for generating information designating a type of mail-receiving notice according to a sender'"'"'s request of how urgently mail-reception is noticed, adding the designating information to an electronic mail to be sent, and sending the added result to said host computer; -
said host computer including means for receiving said information designating the type of the mail-receiving notice from said sending terminal and means for generating the mail-receiving notice information based on the received information designating the type mail-receiving notice and means for sending the generated mail-receiving notice to said receiving terminal; and said receiving terminal including means for receiving the mail-receiving notice information from said host computer and means for notifying the user on said receiving terminal of that said electronic mail is received in said host computer according to the received mail-receiving notice information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. In an electronic mailing system having a host computer and a plurality of terminals connected to said host computer, a sending terminal of said terminals sending an electronic mail to said host computer, said host computer storing said electronic mail, and a receiving terminal of said terminals having access to said electronic mail stored in said host computer, said electronic mailing system comprising:
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each of said terminals including means for generating a signal indicating a mail-receiving notice pattern depending upon how urgently mail-reception is noticed, means for adding said indicative signal to a sending signal of the electronic mail, and means for sending the added result to said host computer if the terminal is served as a sending one and means for noticing that the electronic mail reaches said host computer based on the mail-receiving notice information received from said host computer if the terminal is served as a sending one; and said host computer including mail-receive processing program means for determining a corresponding main-receiving notice pattern according to how urgently the mail-receive is noticed, based on an indicative signal sent from the terminal served as a sending one and sending the mail-receiving notice information standing for said pattern to a mail destination terminal. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7)
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8. In an electronic mailing system including a host computer and at least two terminals connected to said host computer through a communication line, a sending one of said terminals serving to send an electronic mail to said host computer, said host computer storing said electronic mail, and a receiving or destinating one of said terminals of a subscriber serving to reading said electronic mail stored in said host computer, a mail-receive noticing method comprising the steps of:
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at said sending terminal, generating mail-receiving notice indicating information according to how urgently the mail-receive is noticed, adding said indicating information to the net information of said electronic mail, and sending the added result to said host computer from said sending terminal; at said host computer, receiving said mail-receive indicating information from said sending terminal under the control of a program, and generating mail-receiving notice information based on said received indicating information and sending the generated mail-receiving notice information to said receiving terminal; and at said receiving terminal, receiving said mail-receiving notice information from said host computer, and noticing that said electronic mail for a user on said terminal reaches said host computer to a mail-receive noticing means specified by said user, based on the received mail-receiving notice information. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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