Method of providing notification service of electronic mail transfer

• US 7,559,030 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2004
• Issued: 07/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Skyums Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Skyums Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Ryu, Mi Seon
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu; Tadesse
• Assistant Examiner(s): Roswell; Michael
• Application Number:
  US10/595,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20080320398A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,671 Days
• Field of Search: 715/752, 715/753, 715/733, 715/854, 715/716, 715/751, 455/466
• US Class Current: 715/752
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

Provided is a method for providing an electronic document transmission notification service for notifying transmission of the electronic mail That a sender creates and transmits to a receiver. The method is achieved by storing an email address of the receiver with a mobile phone number and a name on a database, simultaneously displaying an email writing window and a text message transmission window on a screen when the sender accesses a mail site and selects writing an e.mail (a first display step), when a receiver'"'"'s email address is selected from the e.mail writing window, searching for a mobile phone number corresponding to a selected e.mail address and displaying the searched mobile phone number on a receiver'"'"'s mobile phone number section (a second display step), when the sender writes a title and a content of an e.mail on the email writing window, displaying at least the title of the email in a content section of the text message transmission window (a third display step), and transmitting a message on the text message transmission window in form of a short message according to confirmation of the sender.

Claims

1. A method for providing an electronic document transmission notification service for notifying transmission of the electronic mail that a sender creates and transmits to a receiver, the method comprising:

storing an email address of the receiver with a mobile phone number and a name on a database;

simultaneously displaying an email writing window and a text message transmission window on a screen when the sender accesses a mail site and selects writing an email (a first display step);

when a receiver'"'"'s email address is selected from the email writing window, searching for a mobile phone number corresponding to a selected email address and displaying the searched mobile phone number on a receiver'"'"'s mobile phone number section (a second display step);

when the sender writes a title and a content of an email on the email writing window, displaying at least the title of the email in a content section of the text message transmission window (a third display step); and

transmitting a message on the text message transmission window in form of a short message according to confirmation of the sender.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising allowing adding/correcting of the content of the email when the sender clicks the text message transmission window.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a receiver'"'"'s name section corresponding to the receiver'"'"'s mobile phone number next to a the receiver'"'"'s mobile phone number section in which the receiver'"'"'s mobile phone number searched in the second display step is displayed, so that the name of the receiver displayed in the receiver'"'"'s mobile phone number section is searched and displayed.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the transmitting of a message on the text message transmission window, a corresponding message is transmitted to an SMS providing portion of a mobile communication company to be transmitted to a mobile terminal of the receiver.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein, in the transmitting of a message on the text message transmission window, a corresponding message is transmitted to an SMS providing portion of a mobile communication company to be transmitted to a mobile terminal of the receiver.