System and method for emailing and chatting

• US 7,599,994 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2005
• Issued: 10/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chul Hwa Paik
• Original Assignee: Chul Hwa Paik
• Inventors: Paik, Chul Hwa, Yu, Hyun Sun
• Primary Examiner(s): Refai; Ramsey
• Application Number:
  US11/213,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20050289223A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,504 Days
• Field of Search: 709206-207
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

A system and method for emailing and chatting comprising a pair of web browsers of the sender and the receiver, Internet contacting units for connecting to the web browsers, an email server for sending-receiving email between the sender and the receiver, and a chatting-mailing server for emailing and chatting between the sender and the receiver is disclosed.

Claims

1. A system for requesting a chat comprising:

a chatting-emailing program disposed in a computer readable storage medium of a device and arranged and configured to create an email having a header section and a body section, to dispose a log-in ID for a CHMail server and an internet protocol (IP) port number corresponding to the chat into the header section and to request the chat based on the log-in ID to the CHMail server and the IP port number corresponding to the chat, the log-in ID to the CHMail server and the IP port number corresponding to the chat each being associated with a sender of the email;

wherein the CHMail server is arranged and configured to receive the log-in ID to the CHMail server and to provide the IP port number corresponding to the chat;

wherein the chatting-emailing program is further arranged and configured to register, with the CHMail server, the log-in ID to the CHMail server and to get, from the CHMail server, the IP port number corresponding to the chat and a most recent IP address associated with a computer of the sender;

wherein the CHMail server is further arranged and configured to receive a host name associated with a computer of the sender and the chatting-emailing program is further arranged and configured to register, with the CHMail server the host name, and

wherein the chatting-emailing program is further arranged and configured to request the chat using the host name and the IP port number corresponding to the chat.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the chatting-emailing program is further configured to provide the header section with a host name associated with the sender of the email.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the device is a mobile computing device