CN1971596A - Method and system for generating electron congratulating card mail - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for generating an electronic greeting card email, the method predetermines a date with special significance, and further includes the following steps: determining the date on which the electronic greeting card email is expected to be sent, and when the date is determined to be a date with special significance , to obtain the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance; generate an electronic greeting card email according to the obtained electronic greeting card. The invention also discloses a system for generating electronic greeting card emails. After applying the present invention, the greeting card background corresponding to the date with special significance can be automatically provided to the user to generate an email with good wishes, thereby greatly promoting the emotional communication between the user and the recipient, and can choose Quickly select e-cards, making composing e-card emails easier.

Description

A method and system for generating electronic greeting card emails

technical field

The present invention relates to the technical field of electronic mail (E-mail), and more particularly, relates to a method and a system for generating electronic greeting card mail.

Background technique

Email is a form of communication over a computer network. Computer users can communicate with each other by sending e-mail through the network. E-mail can be delivered over a computer local area network or over a computer wide area network. For e-mail communication, it is necessary to establish an e-mail "post office" on the network file server. It is the central distribution center of e-mail, and a mailbox with an address can be set for each user. Others can send emails to this mailbox, and the owner of the mailbox can also take out emails from the mailbox at any time. The "post office" here is actually a set of database files on a network file server.

In addition to basic text information, e-mail can also transfer data files such as pictures, video clips, sound clips and programs. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME), as a technical specification of electronic mail, has been widely used at present. In this protocol, the format of messages that travel between different electronic mail systems is specified. MIME is a very flexible format that allows users to include any visible file type in email. MIME mail can contain text, pictures, sound, video, or other application-specific data.

At present, various mail management software with functions of sending and receiving, reading and managing mails are also very common, such as Outlook Express and Foxmail mail management software developed by Microsoft Corporation. The release of these email management software makes it convenient for people to send and receive emails. In the current mail management software, when a user composes an email, the user first determines the background of the email. The background of the email is usually expressed by stationery, templates, signatures, etc., and then the user composes the email based on the determined email background. mail.

However, in the method of generating emails in the prior art, the user needs to manually obtain the background and perform corresponding operations and settings, and the background cannot be automatically provided according to the date, and its function is limited. In many cases, the date the email was sent can be of great significance to the email itself. For example, the user may forget that the day of sending the email is an important date (such as the recipient's birthday), and the email management software of the prior art cannot automatically provide the greeting card background about the event, so that the user cannot send a personalized message with good wishes. mail.

In addition, in the prior art, when selecting a background, it is usually selected according to the name, but the name of the background is not enough to express its actual content, which makes the user's choice unintuitive, and the user cannot quickly select a satisfactory one. background, which is not conducive to the user's intuitive and rapid e-mail composition.

Contents of the invention

In view of this, the main purpose of the present invention is to propose a method for generating an e-greeting card mail to automatically provide a greeting card background according to the date, thereby generating an e-mail with good wishes.

Another object of the present invention is to propose a system for generating e-greeting card mails to automatically provide greeting card backgrounds by date to generate mails with well wishes.

In order to achieve the above object, technical solution of the present invention is achieved in that way:

A method of generating an e-card mailing, the method predetermines a date of special significance, and further comprising the steps of:

A. Determine the date on which the electronic greeting card email is expected to be sent, and when the date is determined to be a date with special significance, obtain the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance;

B. Generate the electronic greeting card email according to the acquired electronic greeting card.

The dates with special significance are: dates with special significance to the public or dates with special significance to individuals.

The dates that are of special significance to the public are statutory festivals or non-statutory traditional programs.

The date of special significance to the individual is the individual's birthday, the birthday of the individual's relative or friend, the individual's wedding anniversary, or the individual's relative or friend's wedding anniversary.

Further pre-determining the period corresponding to the date with special significance, the acquisition of the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance in step A is: When the time period corresponding to the date with special significance is within, the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance is obtained.

The acquisition of the electronic greeting card in step A is: acquiring the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance locally, or obtaining the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance through the network.

The obtaining of the electronic greeting card in step A is: obtaining at least one electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance; the generating of the electronic greeting card email according to the electronic greeting card in step B is: selecting at least one electronic greeting card from the obtained electronic greeting card eCard and generate said eCard email based on the selected eCard.

After step A, the method further displays the obtained at least one electronic greeting card corresponding to the festival in the form of a thumbnail; the selection of the electronic greeting card in step B is: from the displayed in the form of a thumbnail Select eCard from at least one eCard.

The step B further includes: when the user re-determines the e-greeting card displayed in the form of a thumbnail, generating the e-greeting card email according to the re-determined e-greeting card.

The generating of the electronic greeting card email according to the electronic greeting card in step B includes: attaching the electronic greeting card as an attachment in the electronic greeting card email.

The step B of generating an electronic greeting card email according to the electronic greeting card includes: attaching the electronic greeting card as a background to the electronic greeting card email.

A system for generating electronic greeting card mailings, the system comprising:

A date judging module with special significance, which is used to judge whether the date expected to send the electronic greeting card email is a date with special significance;

The electronic greeting card acquisition module is used to obtain the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance when the special significance date judging module determines that the expected date of sending the electronic greeting card email is a date with special significance;

An electronic greeting card email generating module, configured to generate the electronic greeting card email according to the obtained electronic greeting card;

Wherein the special significance date judging module is connected with the electronic greeting card acquisition module, and the electronic greeting card acquisition module is further connected with the electronic greeting card email generation module.

The electronic greeting card acquisition module includes a local electronic greeting card acquisition submodule and/or a network electronic greeting card acquisition submodule; wherein

The local electronic greeting card obtaining submodule is used to locally obtain the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance;

The network electronic greeting card obtaining submodule is used to obtain the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance through the network.

The electronic greeting card obtaining module is used to obtain at least one electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance; the electronic greeting card mail generating module is used to select at least one electronic greeting card from the obtained electronic greeting cards, and according to the selection The eCard generates the eCard email.

The system further includes an electronic greeting card processing module, configured to display the acquired at least one electronic greeting card in the form of a thumbnail; Select an electronic greeting card in the greeting card, and generate the electronic greeting card email according to the selected electronic greeting card;

The electronic greeting card acquisition module is connected with the electronic greeting card processing module, and the electronic greeting card processing module is further connected with the electronic greeting card email generation module.

The system further includes an email sending module, which is used to send the electronic greeting card email;

The email sending module is connected with the electronic greeting card email generating module.

An email management system, the email management system includes the system for generating electronic greeting card emails as described in any one of the above items.

A computing device comprising the system for generating electronic greeting card emails according to any one of the preceding items.

As can be seen from the foregoing technical solutions, in the present invention, at first predetermine the date with special significance; The electronic greeting card corresponding to the meaningful date; and then generate the electronic greeting card mail according to the obtained electronic greeting card. It can be seen that after applying the present invention, the user does not need to memorize the date with special significance, on the contrary, the present invention can automatically provide the greeting card background relevant to the date with special significance to the user, to generate mails with good wishes, thereby greatly Facilitates an emotional exchange between the user and the recipient.

In addition, in the present invention, the electronic greeting card is displayed in the form of a thumbnail, rather than simply selected by the user according to the name of the greeting card, so it is very convenient for the user to intuitively understand the content of the electronic greeting card, so that the user can select a satisfactory electronic greeting card more quickly , making it easier to compose e-card messages.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of an exemplary method of generating an electronic greeting card email according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an exemplary structure diagram of an e-mail generating system for an electronic greeting card according to the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a structural diagram of an e-mail generating system for an electronic greeting card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a structural diagram of an email generating system for electronic greeting cards according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a structural diagram of an electronic greeting card email generation system according to yet another embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

In order to make the object, technical solution and advantages of the present invention more clearly, the present invention will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

The main idea of the present invention is: first predetermine the date with special significance; E-cards; and then generate e-card emails based on the acquired e-cards, so that users can automatically provide greeting card backgrounds to generate emails with good wishes without the need for users to memorize dates with special meaning.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of an exemplary method of generating an electronic greeting card email according to the present invention. First, predetermine dates with special significance. These dates of special significance can be either dates of special significance to the public or dates of special significance to individuals. For example, it can be either a statutory festival or a non-statutory traditional festival. Similarly, it can be either a Chinese festival or a Western festival. In addition, these dates with special significance may also be personal birthdays, personal relatives and friends' birthdays, personal wedding anniversaries, or personal relatives and friends' wedding anniversaries, etc. At the same time, these dates with special significance can be dates with special significance to the sender, dates with special significance to the recipient, or dates with special significance to both the sender and the recipient date.

As shown in Figure 1, after determining the date with special significance, the method further includes the following steps:

Step 101: Determine the date on which the e-greeting card email is expected to be sent, and when the date is determined to be a date with special significance, obtain an e-greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance.

Here, first get the date the e-card email is expected to be sent out. Usually, the user is generally used to send the email on the day when the email is written, so the date of writing the email is preferably defaulted as the date when the email is expected to be sent.

However, the user may not send the e-mail immediately after composing the e-mail, but wait for a certain number of days before sending it. At this time, it is preferable that the user actively inputs the scheduled date of sending the electronic greeting card, and then automatically obtains the electronic greeting card according to the scheduled date of sending the email.

After obtaining the date expected to send out the e-greeting card email, it is first judged whether the date is a date with special significance, and if so, an e-greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance is obtained. At this time, when it is judged that the date is not a date of special significance, it is preferable not to acquire any greeting card. Here, the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance can be acquired locally, or the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance can be acquired through the network. When obtaining the electronic greeting card locally, the user can traverse various local electronic greeting card resources, and select the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance. When the electronic greeting card is obtained through the network, the electronic greeting card can be automatically logged in to a special electronic greeting card providing website to download the electronic greeting card, and the electronic greeting card in the network resource can also be obtained through various peer-to-peer (P2P) methods.

Step 102: Generate an electronic greeting card email according to the obtained electronic greeting card.

Here, after the electronic greeting card is obtained, it is preferable to add the electronic greeting card as the background into the electronic greeting card email, so as to generate the electronic greeting card email with the electronic greeting card as the background. Optionally, the electronic greeting card can also be attached to the electronic greeting card email as an attachment, and it is up to the user to decide whether to open it.

Usually, people are used to congratulating each other before major festivals, so users don't necessarily have to send e-card emails with e-cards on the day of the festival. Therefore, preferably, the period corresponding to the date with special significance can be further pre-determined, and when it is determined that the date expected to send the e-greeting card email is within the period corresponding to the date with special significance, the E-cards corresponding to dates with special significance, and generate corresponding e-card emails. For example, New Year's Day is January 1 every year, but before New Year's Day, people are used to sending emails to each other. Therefore, a certain period of time can be pre-determined, assuming 15 days, and when it is determined that the date of sending out the electronic greeting card email is within 15 days before the New Year's Day, the electronic greeting card corresponding to the New Year's Day can be obtained, thereby making the electronic greeting card more convenient. Personalized and intelligent.

Although some specific festival scenes and specific setting times are listed above, these are only exemplary and not for exhaustive purposes.

In addition, it is preferable to obtain multiple electronic greeting cards, and it is further preferable to display all the obtained electronic greeting cards in the form of thumbnails in a part of the email writing window, so that the user can intuitively understand the content of the electronic greeting cards and choose a suitable electronic greeting card. Here, when the user switches among the electronic greeting cards displayed in the form of thumbnails, the background of the email is preferably switched correspondingly with the electronic greeting card. That is, when the user redefines the electronic greeting card displayed in the form of a thumbnail, a new electronic greeting card email is generated based on the newly determined electronic greeting card.

Fig. 2 is an exemplary structure diagram of an e-mail generating system for an electronic greeting card according to the present invention. As shown in Figure 2, the e-greeting card email generation system 200 includes: a special significance date judging module 201 for judging whether the date expected to send an e-greeting card email is a date with special significance; an e-greeting card acquisition module 202 for When the significant date judging module 201 judges that the date expected to send out the e-greeting card email is a date with special significance, it obtains an e-greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance; the e-greeting card e-mail generation module 203 is used to generate Electronic greeting card mail; wherein the special significance date judging module 201 is connected with the electronic greeting card obtaining module 202, and the electronic greeting card obtaining module 202 is further connected with the electronic greeting card mail generating module 203.

Preferably, the electronic greeting card acquisition module includes a local electronic greeting card acquisition submodule and/or a network electronic greeting card acquisition submodule.

Fig. 3 is a structural diagram of an e-mail generating system for an electronic greeting card according to an embodiment of the present invention. As can be seen from FIG. 3 , the basic structure of the system 300 is similar to that of the system 200 , and corresponding descriptions of the same parts are omitted here. The electronic greeting card acquisition module 302 in the system 300 includes a local electronic greeting card acquisition submodule 303 and a network electronic greeting card acquisition submodule 304 . Wherein the local electronic greeting card acquisition submodule 303 is used for traversing various local electronic greeting card resources, and obtains the electronic greeting card corresponding to the date with special significance; E-cards corresponding to the date. Optionally, the network electronic greeting card acquisition sub-module 304 can be used to log in to a dedicated electronic greeting card providing website to download the electronic greeting card, and can also be used to obtain the network electronic greeting card through various P2P methods.

Fig. 4 is a structural diagram of an email generating system for electronic greeting cards according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4 , the basic structure of the system 400 is similar to that of the system 300 , and corresponding descriptions of the same parts are omitted here. In FIG. 4 , an electronic greeting card processing module 406 is further included. Among them, the electronic greeting card obtaining module 402 is used to obtain at least one electronic greeting card corresponding to a date with special significance; the electronic greeting card processing module 406 is used to display at least one electronic greeting card obtained by the electronic greeting card obtaining module 402 in the form of a thumbnail Greeting card; the e-greeting card email generating module 405 is configured to select an e-greeting card from the at least one e-greeting card displayed in the form of a thumbnail, and generate an e-greeting card email according to the selected e-greeting card.

After the e-card email is generated, it can be sent. Fig. 5 is a structural diagram of an electronic greeting card email generation system according to yet another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5 , the basic structure of the system 500 is similar to that of the system 400 , and corresponding descriptions of the same parts are omitted here. The system 500 further includes an email sending module 507 for sending the electronic greeting card email generated by the electronic greeting card email generating module 505 , wherein the email sending module 507 is connected with the electronic greeting card email generating module 505 .

The present invention can be applied to various email management systems in various forms. For example, it is compatible with email management systems such as Outlook Express and Foxmail in the form of plug-ins. Likewise, the present invention can also be directly integrated and applied to the email management system. In general, these email management systems can be implemented into computing devices such as personal computers, personal data assistants (PDAs), laptops, or any type of webmail server.

The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the protection scope of the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the present invention shall be included within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (18)

1, a kind of method that generates electron congratulating card mail is characterized in that, this method pre-determines the date that acquires a special sense, and further may further comprise the steps:

The date that electron congratulating card mail is sent in A, definite expectation, and when judging that the described date is the date that acquires a special sense, obtain and this corresponding e-greeting card of date that acquires a special sense;

The described e-greeting card that B, basis are obtained generates described electron congratulating card mail.

According to the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that 2, the described date that acquires a special sense is: date that acquires a special sense for the public or the date that acquires a special sense for the individual.

According to the method for claim 2, it is characterized in that 3, the described date that acquires a special sense for the public is legal red-letter day or non-legal traditional festival.

4, according to the method for claim 2, it is characterized in that the described date that acquires a special sense for the individual is birthday of this individual birthday, these individual relative or friend, this individual wedding anniversary or relative that should the individual or friend's wedding anniversary.

5, according to the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that, further pre-determine and described corresponding period on the date that acquires a special sense, described the obtaining with this corresponding e-greeting card of date that acquires a special sense of steps A is: when judging that described expectation sends the date of electron congratulating card mail when being positioned within this corresponding period on date that acquires a special sense, obtain and this corresponding e-greeting card of date that acquires a special sense.

6, according to the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that, the described e-greeting card that obtains of steps A is: obtain from this locality and this corresponding e-greeting card of date that acquires a special sense, perhaps obtain and this corresponding e-greeting card of date that acquires a special sense by network.

According to the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that 7, the described e-greeting card that obtains of steps A is: obtain at least one with this corresponding e-greeting card of date that acquires a special sense; Step B is described to be generated described electron congratulating card mail according to e-greeting card and is: select at least one e-greeting card from the e-greeting card that obtains, and generate described electron congratulating card mail according to selected e-greeting card.

According to the method for claim 7, it is characterized in that 8, this method is after steps A, further the form with thumbnail shows described at least one of obtaining and corresponding e-greeting card in this red-letter day; The described selection e-greeting card of step B is: from described to select e-greeting card at least one the shown e-greeting card of the form of thumbnail.

9, method according to Claim 8 is characterized in that, further comprises in step B: when the user redefines the e-greeting card that shows with the form of thumbnail, generate described electron congratulating card mail according to the described e-greeting card that redefines.

According to the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that 10, step B is described to be comprised according to e-greeting card generation electron congratulating card mail: described e-greeting card is attached in the described electron congratulating card mail as annex.

According to the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that 11, step B is described to be comprised according to e-greeting card generation electron congratulating card mail: described e-greeting card is attached in the described electron congratulating card mail as a setting.

12, a kind of system that generates electron congratulating card mail is characterized in that, this system comprises:

Special Significance date judge module is used to judge that expectation sends whether the date of electron congratulating card mail is the date that acquires a special sense;

The e-greeting card acquisition module is used for judging described expectation when described Special Significance date judge module and sends the date of electron congratulating card mail when being the date that acquires a special sense, and obtains and this corresponding e-greeting card of date that acquires a special sense;

The electron congratulating card mail generation module is used for generating described electron congratulating card mail according to the described e-greeting card that obtains;

Wherein said Special Significance date judge module is connected with the e-greeting card acquisition module, and described e-greeting card acquisition module further is connected with described electron congratulating card mail generation module.

13, system according to claim 12 is characterized in that, described e-greeting card acquisition module comprises that local e-greeting card obtains submodule and/or the network electronic greeting card obtains submodule; Wherein

Described local e-greeting card obtains submodule, is used for obtaining and this corresponding e-greeting card of date that acquires a special sense from this locality;

Described network electronic greeting card obtains submodule, is used for obtaining and this corresponding e-greeting card of date that acquires a special sense by network.

14, system according to claim 12 is characterized in that, described e-greeting card acquisition module be used to obtain at least one with this corresponding e-greeting card of date that acquires a special sense; Described electron congratulating card mail generation module is used for selecting at least one e-greeting card from the e-greeting card that obtains, and generates described electron congratulating card mail according to the e-greeting card of selecting.

15, want water 14 described systems according to right, it is characterized in that this system further comprises the e-greeting card processing module, be used for showing described at least one the e-greeting card that obtains with the form of thumbnail; Described electron congratulating card mail generation module is used for selecting e-greeting card from described at least one the e-greeting card that shows with the form of thumbnail, and generates described electron congratulating card mail according to the e-greeting card of choosing;

Described e-greeting card acquisition module is connected with the e-greeting card processing module, and described e-greeting card processing module further is connected with described electron congratulating card mail generation module.

16, system according to claim 14 is characterized in that, this system further comprises the Email sending module, is used to send described electron congratulating card mail;

Described Email sending module is connected with the electron congratulating card mail generation module.

17, a kind of eManager for Exchange is characterized in that, this eManager for Exchange comprises the system as each described generation electron congratulating card mail among the claim 12-16.

18, a kind of computing equipment is characterized in that, this computing equipment comprises the system as each described generation electron congratulating card mail among the claim 12-16.

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