US 7,249,160 B2Granted

Electronic mail processing system and mail server

AssigneesPioneer Corporation, Increment P Corporation

InventorsTakashi Nozaki, Akiko Nagano

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Abstract

An electronic mail (email) processing system set up on the Internet includes terminals that send and receive email messages, cellular telephones that send and receive email messages by radiocommunication through base stations, a mail server that performs the overall management of an email service, a client database, provided within the mail server, for storing user information about registered users who are clients of the email service, and a map database center and a map information provider site, both of which perform a map information providing function. In a specific embodiment, the mail server receives an email message sent from a terminal, adds, to the received email message, telephone number data and position information-associated map link information, which are items of the user information, and forwards the resultant email message to one or more recipient cellular telephones.

Claims10

Dependent claims

An electronic mail processing system that processes email messages sent via a network, said system comprising:

a plurality of terminals each provided with a function to send and receive the email messages through said network;
a user information storage device for storing user information corresponding to registered users;
an email adding device for referencing said user information storage device upon receipt of each of the email messages sent from said terminals, acquiring at least one predetermined item of said user information corresponding to users using said terminals, and adding said item of said user information to the email message;
and
an email forwarding device for forwarding the email message to which said predetermined item of said user information is added, to said terminals specified as recipients,
wherein said user information includes telephone number data, wherein said email adding device adds the telephone number data to the email message, and wherein said plurality of terminals include terminals having a telephone function by which a call operation is initiated to a link indicated by the telephone number data based on a predetermined operation of selection of a telephone number corresponding to the telephone number data, and confirmation of the selection.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/081,647Filed 21 Feb 2002
Priority: JP P2001-0672109 Mar 2001
Published: US 2002/0129109 A112 Sep 2002
Granted: 24 Jul 2007
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06Q 10/107
Office automation; Time management: computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
H04L 51/58
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail: message…
H04L 67/561
Provisioning of proxy services: adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
H04W 4/02
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services making use of location information