KR20010084568A - Method of Providing E-Mail Address Using Phone Number - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing an e-mail address using a phone number for providing an e-mail address by assigning a user's phone number to a user name account of an e-mail address.

According to the present invention, a personal computer user executes a web browser to access a host, and the user inputs a telephone number and personal information into an input window provided by the member management program. After verifying that the entered phone number is the user's, if the entered phone number is the user's, the membership management program generates an e-mail address whose telephone number is the user name account of the e-mail address, and the entered phone number is If not the user, displaying an error message and requesting to re-enter the phone number and the personal information.

Description

Method of Providing E-Mail Address Using Phone Number}

The present invention relates to a method for providing an e-mail address, and in particular, to provide an e-mail address by assigning a telephone number such as a mobile communication terminal number or a landline telephone number to a user name account of an e-mail address. It's about one way.

With the spread of the Internet, e-mail is used to send and receive e-mails containing messages and files. To send and receive mail using e-mail, you need the sender's address and the recipient's address.

Every computer connected to the Internet is given a distinguishing address, which includes an IP address and a domain name. An IP address is a four-byte number, with each byte separated by a dot. For example, the Korean Internet Information Center (KRNIC) displays the IP address as 123.234.58.7. However, since it is not easy to store 10 or more numbers as described above, the names are used as letters to correspond to the numbers so that they are easy to use and convenient to store. In the case of the Korea Internet Information Center, the domain name corresponding to the IP address is nic.or.kr. The e-mail address is generated by attaching a user name with an @ symbol in front of the domain name. For example, for an e-mail address of a user named honggildong@nic.or.kr, honggildong becomes a user name and nic.or.kr becomes a domain name. For convenience, the e-mail address area corresponding to honggildong will be referred to as a "user name account."

Therefore, a sender who wants to send an e-mail must remember both the username and domain name of the recipient in order to send the e-mail. However, it is not easy to remember both the user name account and the domain name, so there is an inconvenience in using the e-mail.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an e-mail address using a telephone number so as to conveniently store an e-mail address of an e-mail user.

1 is a block diagram of a system environment for carrying out the invention;

2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a host illustrated in FIG. 1;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing an email address according to the present invention.

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10: personal computer 12: host

14 switchboard 16 mobile communication terminal

18: landline phone 20: web server

22: Application 24: Database

26: Membership Management Program 28: Communication Program

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a personal computer is connected to the host via the Internet, the host is provided with an application program including a member management program and communication program, and a database including a member DB and member performance DB System environment. The method of providing an e-mail address according to the present invention using the system includes the steps of: a personal computer user accessing the host by executing a web browser; A user inputting a telephone number and personal information into an input window provided by the member management program; Verifying whether the input telephone number is a user; And if the inputted phone number is a user, the member management program generates an email address using the telephone number as a user name account of an email address, and displays an error message if the inputted phone number is not a user. And re-entering the phone number and the personal information.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 schematically shows the configuration of a system environment for carrying out the invention. Referring to FIG. 1, a personal computer 10 of a user to whom an email address is to be assigned is connected via the Internet to a host 12 for providing an email address according to the present invention. The host 12 is configured to be connected to the exchange 14 to transmit a call request to the mobile communication terminal 16 or the wired telephone 18 through a mobile communication network or a wired telephone network.

The personal computer 10 includes an operating system, a network interface, and a web browser for internet access. The operating system can be a commercial program such as Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows 2000. The network interface performs a function of connecting the personal computer 10 to the Internet, and may be a hardware such as a LAN card or a modem, a communication connection program, or a networking program. The user interface for starting and operating an Internet connection is via a web browser. A user who wants to receive an e-mail address accesses the host 12 and executes a necessary procedure by executing a web browser.

2 shows a schematic configuration of a preferred embodiment of the host 12 used in the present invention. The host 12 includes a web server 20, an application 22, and a database 24. The web server 20 acts as an HTML server for providing HTML documents for each computer 10, accesses the application 22 via an application program interface (API), and accesses the application program 22 by the personal computer 10. ) Is executed. The host 12 has, of course, a unique IP address and domain name.

The application program 22 includes a member management program 26 and a communication program 28.

The member management program 26 is for managing a user's access to the host 12 and includes a member registration module, a member authentication module and a member performance management module. The member registration module includes an e-mail address generation module so that a user who wants to receive an e-mail address can input a telephone number and predetermined personal information to assign an identification number (ID), a password, and an e-mail address. . The telephone number may be any of a landline telephone number and a mobile terminal number. Since only one identification number is assigned to every user, it may be possible to use a telephone number as an identification number. For example, in the case of inputting a mobile communication terminal number 011-123-4567 as a telephone number, the email address generation module generates an email address composed of "0111234567 @ domain name". In this case, 0111234567 may be assigned as an identification number or may be separately desired by the user. The e-mail address generation module performs a verification operation on the input telephone number before generating the e-mail address with the telephone number added before @. Such verification may be performed by a host operator directly calling the input telephone number and verifying the call by directly contacting the user. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the data is matched with data in the database to confirm whether the telephone number is the user. The method of assigning an e-mail address depends on whether As a concrete method, the verification database may be shared with the host 12 of the present invention. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, data about a telephone user is given by agreement with a mobile communication service provider, and a verification is performed by constructing a database 24 of the host itself. The verification method includes a method of checking whether the resident registration number and the phone number entered by the user match the resident registration number and the phone number stored in the member DB of the database 24 by including the resident registration number in the personal information input by the user. When the personal information and the phone number are input, the member registration module assigns an ID, a password, and an e-mail address, and stores the ID, password, personal information, and an e-mail address in the member DB of the database 24.

The member authentication module requires a personal computer 10 of a user who has completed membership registration to be connected to the host 12 so that a member may input an ID and a password when the member wishes to use the e-mail of the present invention. Check whether the input data is the same as the ID and password data previously stored in the database 24, and if the same, allows the use of the e-mail generated according to the present invention, if not the same, generate an error message and complete the membership registration procedure. Generates a message asking you to perform

The member performance management module aggregates the number of times each member sends an e-mail, and continuously stores and updates the aggregated data in the database 24 to be used as host operation data. The data aggregated by the member performance management module may be used in connection with the Internet communication module of the communication program to provide a benefit, such as providing a prize, to a member who has a predetermined number of times of e-mail use if necessary.

The communication program 28 performs a function for communicating with a member and includes an internet communication module, an exchange communication module, and a security program module. The internet communication module transmits a message to the member using the internet. For example, when the number of e-mails used by a member stored in the database is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, a message is sent to the e-mail address of the member informing of receipt of a prize or the like. In addition, it performs the function of sending advertisements or announcements. The exchange communication module enables communication with the member using a mobile communication network or a wired telephone network. When the member's e-mail address generation is completed, the exchange communication module transmits a member's phone number to the exchange 14 to send a message to the member. The message may be a message for notifying the member's e-mail address when the initial member registration is completed, and may be a notice regarding host operation including an advertisement after the member registration.

The security program module performs a firewall function to prevent a host from being hacked and to prevent data about a member individual from leaking to the outside. Since this kind of security program is already well known in various types, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The database 24 includes a member DB and a member performance DB. The member DB stores information such as the member's name, address, e-mail address, ID, password, and phone number.

The member performance DB stores statistics such as the number of times the member sends an e-mail and the e-mail sending time.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing an email address according to the present invention.

The user executes a web browser of the personal computer 10 and accesses the host 11 (S101). When the user wants to be assigned an e-mail address, the user clicks a menu for registering a member and inputs personal information including a telephone number, name, social security number address, etc. in an input window provided by the member management program (S102). . The input telephone number is compared with the data stored in the database to determine whether it is the user (S103). If it is determined that the telephone number is not the user, the member registration module displays an error message (S104) and the telephone number. You will be asked to re-enter your personal information. The determination of whether the user's telephone number is correct is determined by comparing whether the resident registration number and the telephone number stored in the database match the input resident registration number and the telephone number. If it is determined that the input telephone number is the user's, the email generation module generates an email address using the telephone number as a user name account of the email address (S105). At this time, the domain name of the e-mail address is preferably kept the same for all users so as to be easy to remember. As a result, members are only assigned a username account among the email addresses, and all domain names are assigned the same email address.

As an additional procedure when an e-mail address is generated, the exchange communication module transmits the user's telephone number to the exchange 14 (S106) and the exchange 14 indicates that the e-mail address has been generated using a mobile or wired telephone network. The notification message is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 16 or the wired telephone 18 of the user (S107).

Although preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, this is for the purpose of illustration and various modifications, changes, additions, and the like may be made by those skilled in the art within the spirit and scope of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention makes it possible to easily store the e-mail address by setting the user name account of the e-mail address as the telephone number and to make the domain name of the e-mail address the same, and to provide the service of the present invention. The effect of attracting a large number of members by providing the service of the present invention.

Claims (4)

A personal computer is connected to a host via the Internet, and the host includes an application including a member management program and a communication program, and a database including a member DB and a member performance DB. (a) the personal computer user executing a web browser to access the host; (b) a user inputting a telephone number and personal information into an input window provided by the member management program; (c) verifying whether the input telephone number is a user; And, (d) If the entered telephone number is a user, the member management program generates an e-mail address using the telephone number as a user name account of an e-mail address, and an error message if the entered telephone number is not a user. Displaying and requesting to re-enter the phone number and the personal information; E-mail address providing method using a phone number comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein when generating the e-mail address in step (d), the domain names of all the e-mail addresses are generated identically. The communication program of claim 1, wherein when the e-mail address is generated in step (e), the communication program includes an exchange communication module, and the exchange communication module transmits a user's telephone number to the exchange. Method for providing an e-mail address using a phone number, characterized in that it further comprises the step of transmitting a message indicating that the generated to the user's phone. 4. The method of any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the step of verifying whether the input telephone number is a user includes whether the resident registration number and the telephone number stored in the member DB of the database match the input resident registration number and the telephone number. Method for providing an e-mail address using a telephone number, characterized in that by comparing whether to determine.