Electronic mail system and terminal device
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1. An electronic mail system, comprising:
- conventional e-mail servers connected to each other over a network; and
client devices each of which are connected to a different one of said servers and transmitting/receiving an electronic mail to/from each other via said conventional e-mail servers, wherein each of said client devices has executive means for determining at a transmitting client if a receiving client must perform an electronic mail nonread-read execution for checking whether the electronic mail transmitted via said conventional e-mail servers by the transmitting client and received via said conventional e-mail servers by the receiving client has been read.
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Abstract
An electronic mail system adapted to provide a client terminal device side with a nonread-read executive function for checking whether or not a receiving side has read an electronic mail. The out-going side client terminal device adds request information for read information notice to the electronic mail and transmits the electronic mail to the in-coming side client terminal device. After the in-coming side client terminal device reads the electronic mail, it then sends the read information to the out-going side client terminal device.
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23 Claims
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1. An electronic mail system, comprising:
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conventional e-mail servers connected to each other over a network; and
client devices each of which are connected to a different one of said servers and transmitting/receiving an electronic mail to/from each other via said conventional e-mail servers, wherein each of said client devices has executive means for determining at a transmitting client if a receiving client must perform an electronic mail nonread-read execution for checking whether the electronic mail transmitted via said conventional e-mail servers by the transmitting client and received via said conventional e-mail servers by the receiving client has been read. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 18, 19)
storage means for storing electronic mail nonread-read information;
library means having a library table for recording information of a header of an electronic mail for the receiving side that must perform nonread-read execution;
executive control means for determining if the receiving side must perform nonread-read execution responsive to a determination that receiving side information extracted from header of an electronic mail to be transmitted matches the receiving side information in the library table and for writing the nonread-read information in said storage means;
request addition means for adding request information for read notice to the electronic mail to be executed for checking whether or not it is read;
request judgment means for judging whether or not the request information is added to the received electronic mail; and
read information send means for sending read information when the electronic mail with the request information added is received.
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4. The electronic mail system according to claim 3, wherein said executive means further comprises means for performing an alias expansion.
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16. The electronic mail system according to claim 1, wherein said executive means comprises:
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request addition means for adding request information for read notice to the electronic mail to be executed for checking whether or not it is read;
request judgment means for judging whether or not the request information is added to the received electronic mail; and
read information send means for sending read information when the electronic mail with the request information added is received.
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17. The electronic mail system according to claim 16, wherein said executive means further comprises means for recording information of a header of an electronic mail for the receiving side that must perform nonread-read execution.
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18. The electronic mail system according to claim 17, wherein said executive means further comprises means for performing an alias expansion.
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19. The electronic mail system according to claim 16, wherein said executive means further comprises:
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storage means for storing electronic mail nonread-read information;
library means having a library table for recording information of a header of an electronic mail for the receiving side that must perform nonread-read execution; and
executive control means for determining if the receiving side must perform nonread-read execution responsive to a determination that receiving side information extracted from header of an electronic mail to be transmitted matches the receiving side information in the library table and for writing the nonread-read information in said storage means.
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5. A client device connected to a first conventional e-mail server on a network, comprising:
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means for transmitting/receiving, via the first conventional e-mail server and a second conventional e-mail server, an electronic mail having a standard electronic mail header to/from another client device connected to the second conventional e-mail server on the network, the electronic mail being capable of being read by a standard electronic mail client; and
executive means for, in response to receiving side header information in the standard electronic mail header, determining if the receiving side must perform an electronic mail nonread-read execution for checking whether the electronic mail received via the first and second conventional e-mail servers by the receiving side has been read. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 21, 22, 23)
storage means for storing electronic mail nonread-read information;
library means having a library table for recording information of a header of an electronic mail for the receiving side that must perform nonread-read execution;
executive control means for determining if the receiving side must perform nonread-read execution responsive to a determination that receiving side information extracted from a header of an electronic mail to be transmitted matches the receiving side information in the library table and for writing nonread-read information in said storage means;
request addition means for adding request information for read notice to the electronic mail to be executed for checking whether or not it is read;
request judgment means for judging whether or not the request information is added to the received electronic mail; and
read information send means for sending read information when the electronic mail with the request information added is received.
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7. The client device according to claim 6, wherein said executive means further comprises means for performing an alias expansion.
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8. The client device according to claim 5, wherein said executive means comprises:
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storage means for storing electronic mail nonread-read information;
library means having a library table for recording information of a header of an electronic mail for the receiving side that must perform nonread-read execution;
executive control means for determining if the receiving side must perform nonread-read execution responsive to a determination that receiving side information extracted from a header of an electronic mail to be transmitted matches the receiving side information in the library table and for writing nonread-read information in said storage means; and
request addition means for adding request information for read notice to the electronic mail to be executed for checking whether or not it is read.
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9. The client device according to claim 8, wherein said executive means further comprises means for performing an alias expansion.
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10. The client device according to claim 5, wherein said executive means comprises:
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judgement means for judging whether or not the received electronic mail is the one to be executed for checking whether or not it is read; and
read information send means for sending read information when the electronic mail to be executed is received.
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20. The client device according to claim 5, wherein said executive means comprises:
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request addition means for adding request information for read notice to the electronic mail to be executed for checking whether or not it is read;
request judgment means for judging whether or not the request information is added to the received electronic mail; and
read information send means for sending read information when the electronic mail with the request information added is received.
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21. The client device according to claim 20, wherein said executive means further comprises means for performing an alias expansion.
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22. The client device according to claim 20, wherein said executive means further comprises:
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judgement means for judging whether or not the received electronic mail is the one to be executed for checking whether or not it is read; and
read information send means for sending read information when the electronic mail to be executed is received.
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23. The client device according to claim 20, wherein said executive means further comprises:
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storage means for storing electronic mail nonread-read information;
library means having a library table for recording information of a header of an electronic mail for the receiving side that must perform nonread-read execution; and
executive control means for determining if the receiving side must perform nonread-read execution responsive to a determination that receiving side information extracted from a header of an electronic mail to be transmitted matches the receiving side information in the library table and for writing nonread-read information in said storage means.
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11. An electronic mail system, comprising:
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conventional e-mail servers connected to each other over a network; and
client devices each of which is connected to a different one of the conventional e-mail servers to transmit/receive an electronic mail to/from each other via the conventional e-mail servers with the client devices comprising an executive unit determining if a receiving side must perform an electronic mail nonread-read execution to check whether the electronic mail received via the conventional e-mail servers by the receiving side has been read.
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12. A client device connected to a first conventional e-mail server on a network, comprising:
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a transmit-receiving unit transmitting/receiving, via the first conventional e-mail server and a second conventional e-mail server, an electronic mail to/from another client device connected to the second conventional e-mail server on a network; and
an executive unit, in response to a receiving side header information of the electronic mail, determining if the receiving side must perform an electronic mail nonread-read execution to check whether the electronic mail received via the conventional e-mail servers by the receiving side has been read.
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13. A client device connected to a first conventional e-mail server comprising a process of:
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transmitting/receiving, via the first conventional e-mail server and a second conventional e-mail server, an electronic mail to/from another client device connected to the second conventional e-mail server on a network; and
when transmitting the electronic mail determining if a receiving side must perform an electronic mail nonread-read execution checking whether the electronic mail received via the conventional e-mail servers by the receiving side has been read, responsive to a determination that receiving side information extracted from a header of the electronic mail to be transmitted matches receiving side information in a library table in the client device.
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14. A method for enabling a sending e-mail client to acknowledge that a receiving e-mail client has read a standard e-mail protocol message sent via conventional e-mail servers by the sending e-mail client, comprising:
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adding, at the sending e-mail client, a request for read notice to the standard e-mail protocol message;
sending, at the sending e-mail client, the standard e-mail protocol message with the request for read notice, to a conventional first e-mail server;
transmitting the standard e-mail protocol message with the request for read notice to a second conventional e-mail server;
receiving, at the receiving e-mail client, from the second conventional e-mail server, the standard e-mail protocol message with the request for read notice;
checking, at the receiving e-mail client, if the request for read notice is present in the standard e-mail protocol message; and
acknowledging that the receiving e-mail client has received the standard e-mail protocol message by transmitting, via the first and second conventional e-mail servers, to the sending e-mail client from the receiving e-mail client a read information of the received standard e-mail protocol message.
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15. A method of e-mail acknowledgment, comprising:
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adding request information for read information notice to an e-mail message with a first e-mail client;
sending the e-mail message to a first e-mail server;
transmitting the e-mail message over a network from the first e-mail server to a second e-mail server;
receiving the e-mail message from the second e-mail server with a second e-mail client; and
sending read information notice of the received e-mail message from the second e-mail client to the first e-mail client, responsive to the presence of the request information in the transmitted and received e-mail message.
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