System for sending, receiving and displaying message, method for sending, receiving and displaying message and computer readable storage medium storing program for that method

• US 7,818,381 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2005
• Issued: 10/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Original Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Inventors: Seo, Mun-Jun, Chang, Joon-Kee, Hyuong, Young-Joon
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang; Jungwon
• Application Number:
  US11/571,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20080016163A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,931 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/202, 709/203, 709/205, 709/206, 709/207, 709/218, 709/219, 707/999.1
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking

Abstract

Disclosed are a system for transmitting, receiving, and posting messages, a method thereof, and a computer readable recording medium for recording a program for realizing the method in a computer. When a service subscriber generates a message and transmits the message, a first record and a second record are generated based on the transmitted message, the generated first and second messages are respectively stored and then transmitted to user terminals of an addresser and an addressee, and the user terminals display the transmitted message contents together with previously transmitted related message contents based on record fields. In this instance, the addressee is restricted to be a service subscriber. Therefore, the relationship between the transmitted message and the received message is easily detected, the addresser and the addressee conveniently manage the first and second records respectively, and the service is safe from spam mail or viruses since the messages are transmitted and received only between service subscribers.

Claims

1. A system for transmitting, receiving and posting messages between a plurality of user terminals via a network, the system comprising:

a message client to transmit and to receive a message among a plurality of users subscribed to a service;

an application server to generate a first record and a second record associated with the message based on contents of the message, to store the first record and the second record corresponding to the transmitted message, and to transmit the first record and the second record to the message client according to a request by the message client; and

a user database to store the first record and the second record,

wherein the first record and the second record comprise a service user identification (ID), a message identification (ID), a corresponding message identification (ID), a related message package to which the message belongs, a message position in the message package, an addresser identification (ID), an addressee identification (ID), a message title, and a record field, and

wherein the message client displays the transmitted message together with a message previously being transmitted from the message client by referring to the record field.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the record field comprises a first field to indicate a related message package and a second field to indicate a corresponding message position in the related message package, and

the message client displays the transmitted message according to the position in the related message package by referring to the first field and the second field.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the message identification (ID) of the first record is the same as the corresponding message identification (ID) of the second record, wherein a corresponding message identification (ID) of the first record is the same as the message identification (ID) of the second record, and wherein the first record and the second record are logically connected with each other.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the application server is configured to transmit a notice of failure to the message client having received a message in response to a detection that a message addressee is not a user subscribed to the service.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the user database is provided to a plurality of users subscribed to the service.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the message client is configured to store the transmitted record in the user terminal.

7. A method for transmitting, receiving and posting a message a among plurality of user terminals via a network, the method comprising:

transmitting a message;

generating a first record and a second record for an addresser and an addressee based on the transmitted message, wherein the first record and the second record correspond to the transmitted message and comprise a service user identification (ID), a message identification (ID), a corresponding message identification (ID), a related message package to which the message belongs, a message position in the message package, an addresser identification (ID), an addressee identification (ID), a message title, and a record field;

storing the generated first record and second record and transmitting the first record and the second record to a user terminal of the addresser and a user terminal of the addressee; and

displaying the transmitted message together with a message previously being transmitted from the message client by referring to the record field.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the record field comprises a first field to indicate a related message package and a second field to indicate a corresponding message position of the related message package, and wherein

displaying the transmitted message comprises displaying the transmitted message according to a position in the related message package based on the first field and the second field.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the message identification (ID) of the first record is the same as the corresponding message identification (ID) of the second record, wherein a corresponding message identification (ID) of the first record is the same as the message identification (ID) of the second record, and wherein the first record and the second record are logically connected with each other.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the first record and the second record are stored in a user database for the addresser and the addressee.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising storing the transmitted record in the user terminal according to a user selection.

12. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium comprising a program configured to perform a method of claim 7.