Message reception device, message reception method, and program for receiving message is recorded

• US 7,177,907 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2002
• Issued: 02/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Sakata, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Wiley; David
• Assistant Examiner(s): JEAN GILLES, JUDE
• Application Number:
  US10/043,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20020095468A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,856 Days
• Field of Search: 709204-206, 709/217, 709/238, 370/230, 370/235, 370/263, 710/20, 710/60, 707/10, 375/130, 375/250, 455/456, 455/432, 455/414, 455/90.2, 455/514, 342/357.03, 701/213, 340902-903
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding

Abstract

Messages with a valid range are selected by a message filter unit among the messages received through a network by a message reception unit, and the selected messages with a valid range are temporarily stored in a message storage unit. A message delivery assessment unit compares periodically the valid range of the stored message with a valid range with a current position obtained by a positioning unit, and a message delivery unit delivers the message with a valid range for which the current position is in the valid range, to a user. As a result, the message reception device can deliver the message valid in a specific location to the user with an appropriate timing.

Claims

1. A program for receiving messages which controls a computer to perform message reception processing, comprising the functions of:

a function of receiving e-mail messages through a network;

a function of screening messages with a valid range including a valid geographic position range from the received messages, the screening being repeatedly performed after each given period of time;

a function of storing the screened messages with a valid range in a message storage unit, and delivering a message which was not screened and does not include a valid range to a user;

a function of measuring a current geographic position of the computer;

a function of selecting, from the stored messages, a message with a valid range for which the measured current geographic position is within the valid geographic position range of the message; and

a function of delivering the selected message to a user, wherein,

at a first time when the current geographic position is determined to be outside the stored valid geographic position range of each stored message, no stored message is delivered, and

at a later second time upon the current geographic position being determined to be within one of the stored valid geographic position ranges, the corresponding one of the stored messages is delivered to the user.