Electrical mail system guaranteeing accurately received content

• US 6,108,690 A
• Filed: 02/20/1998
• Issued: 08/22/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Sakamoto, Mineyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Matar, Ahmad F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Barot, Bharat
• Application Number:
  US09/026,552
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200-201, 709/204-207, 709/223-224, 709/245-246, 709/249-250, 707/1, 707/10, 707/104
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

In an electrical mail system, it causes received file to prove whether or not it is identical with transmitted file, thus there is no danger that file with wrong content is used. An electrical mail system in which there is provided a plurality of terminals connected by telecommunication lines, and in which respective terminals transmits and receives electrical mails one another. A terminal of transmission side transmits a file to-be-transmitted, and a necessary data for examining whether or not the file to-be-transmitted is capable of being received accurately as an different electrical mail respectively. A terminal of reception side receives these electrical mails, before examining whether or not the file to-be-transmitted is capable of being received accurately, while collating the file to-be-transmitted obtained from the received electrical mail with the data, thus guaranteeing content of the electrical mail.

Claims

1. An electrical mail system in which there is provided a plurality of terminals connected by telecommunication lines, and in which respective terminals transmit and receive electrical mailes, comprising:

a first terminal for transmitting a file to-be-transmitted as an electrical mail and necessary data for examining whether or not said file to-be-transmitted which is content of said electrical mail is capable of being received accurately as another electrical mail which is different from said electrical mail, said first terminal comprising

a guarantee indication instruction section for receiving a specification of said file to-be-transmitted and a transmission condition for instructing whether or not it causes indication of guarantee to add to indication of file when said file is received accurately, when the searched result denotes that indication of guarantee is not added, said file to-be-transmitted is outputted as a file A, while when the searched result denotes that indication of guarantee is added, adding said file to-be-transmitted to a file discrimination code for discriminating file, thus outputting as a file B;

an acknowledgment file forming section for receiving said file B outputted from said guarantee indication instruction section, and for making necessary data from said file B for examining whether or not said file to-be-transmitted is capable of being received accurately, thus adding said file discrimination code to said data to render it an acknowledgment file, and for outputting said acknowledgment file and said file B; and

a mail transmission section for receiving said file A outputted from said guarantee indication instruction section, thus rendering these files the electrical mails to transmit to said telecommunication line respectively; and

a second terminal for receiving said electrical mail and said another electrical mail and for guaranteeing content of said electrical mail by examining whether or not said file to-be-transmitted which is content of said electrical mail is capable of being received accurately while using said data received by said another electrical mail.

2. A electrical mail system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second terminal comprises:

a mail reception section for receiving said electrical mail transmitted from said first terminal through said telecommunication line, and for outputting said file while taking said file out of the received electrical male;

a mail sort discrimination section for receiving said file outputted from said mail reception section, thus examining whether or not there exists said file discrimination code in the received file, when there exists no file discrimination code, causing the received file from the mail reception section to indicate, while when there exists the file discrimination code, outputting the received file;

a storing section for storing temporarily said file outputted from said mail sort discrimination section;

a mail retrieval section for receiving said file outputted from said mail sort discrimination section, thus retrieving a file corresponding to said received file having the same file discrimination code as the file discrimination code within this file due to said file discrimination code from said storing section, when the file corresponding to the received file from said mail sort discrimination section is retrieved, outputs the retrieved file and the received file from the mail sort discrimination section, while when the file corresponding to the received file from said mail sort discrimination section is not retrieved, thus storing the received file from said mail sort discrimination section; and

a collation section for receiving said file outputted from said mail retrieval section and said file outputted from mail sort discrimination section, causing the data to pull while eliminating said file discrimination code in the file B from the received file B received from said mail retrieval section, which data is required for examining whether or not the file to-be-transmitted is capable of being received accurately, while it causes the file to pull while eliminating said file discrimination code from the file B received from said mail retrieval section, for collating these pulled data with said file to-be-transmitted, thus examining whether or not said file to-be-transmitted is capable of being received accurately, when the accurate reception of said file to-be-transmitted is proved, causing the guarantee indication to indicate, while when the accurate reception of said file to-be-transmitted is not proved, it causes error to indicate by adding it to said file to-be-transmitted.

3. An electrical mail system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said file discrimination code is combination of numerals, the alphabet, and the code.

4. An electrical mail system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said necessary data for examining whether or not said file to-be-transmitted is capable of being received accurately is identical with said file to-be-transmitted itself.

5. An electrical mail system as claimed in claim 4, wherein said first terminal includes said second terminal, while said second terminal includes said first terminal, thus respective terminals is capable of implementing transmission and reception of said electrical mail.