CN1286561A - Information service system for transmitting or receiving e-mail over Internet with ordinary telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

An information service system for using ordinary telephone to transmit or receive e-mail over Internet is composed of telephone trunk (analog trunk or digital trunk) and computer system consisting of audio card, operating system, e-mail receiving and transmitting system, speech compressor and speech reader. Said computer system is connected to internet.

Description

Use the information service system of ordinary telephone set transmitting-receiving internet email

The present invention relates to a kind of information service system that receives and send internet email.

In present means of communication, mainly contain following several: (1) plain old telephone.Necessary both sides are simultaneously on the scene, and price is higher when long distance communication; (2) mobile phone also must both sides be conversed simultaneously, and price is higher; (3) radio call.Price is lower, but can only unidirectionally receive information, and coverage rate is limited; (4) IP phone.Be the recently popular means of communication that the plain old telephone intercommunication is realized in the Internet that passes through, price is relatively low, does not have Email flexible but use; (5) Internet Email.Be present most popular means of communication that can be covering the whole world, Email can reach the whole world at short notice, and expense is cheap.Though Email has lot of advantages, still be subjected to many restrictions popularizing of China, main problem has: 1, online needs to be equipped with microsystem, and the price average family of China relatively is still a no small spending; 2, online needs to be familiar with the operation and the Chinese and English input of microsystem, still is not easy to grasp for most of people; 3, online needs a large amount of telephone charges of cost, and many bad information are arranged on the net, easily the teenager is brought bad influence.In order to address these problems, technical staff both domestic and external has made extensive work, researchs and develops many technology, and main patent and achievement comprise:

1, Chinese patent publication number CN 1157958A has announced " with the information service system of Internet networking ", this patent by set up one comprise mobile or fixed line telephone platform, information service control and management device and with the service organization that the network computer terminal of Internet networking constitutes, the transmitting-receiving service of Email is provided to the user.But can not solve the problem that plain old telephone is is directly sent and received e-mail.

2, Chinese patent publication number CN 1193866A has announced the method for send Email " utilize the facsimile machine to receive and " on network servicer, this patent is mainly managed when the staff goes out, dial back the network of original unit by facsimile machine and watch device, the Email of accepting is sent on the Common Facsimile Machine.But there is not to solve the problem of directly sending and receiving e-mail by Internet service provider (ISP) by phone, facsimile machine yet.

In addition, solved Email on the internet and reached that GSM mobile handset, Email reach beep-pager, Email reaches technical problems such as facsimile machine.But the service system that provides plain old telephone directly to receive and dispatch internet email is not arranged yet at present.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of user of making just can directly send and receive Email by ordinary telephone set information service system.

For reaching above-mentioned purpose, the technical solution adopted in the present invention is: set up a cover the Internet service merchant and serve system, comprise (1) plain old telephone trunk line or digital trunk; (2) the sound card system that is connected with telephone wire; The computer system of (3) one cover operation Windows NT or UNIX; (4) one covers run on the Subscriber Management System of Windows NT platform or unix platform; (5) one covers run on the Mail Gateway system of Windows NT platform or unix platform; (6) one covers run on the mailing system of Windows NT platform or unix platform; The user of this service system uses ordinary telephone set to send voice mail, adopt the mode of digital coding input alphabet and bis to input user name by telephone key-press, password and recipient's e-mail address, the content that will need to send by phone is recorded then, the lang sound press of going forward side by side contracts, the mail that sends is the Email of the standard of a band voice document annex, the recipient extracts Email by ordinary telephone set, if Email is the band voice document, voice document is play, for the addresser address, mail header, body matter transfers voice signal to by speech synthesis technique and notifies the user.

Mail Gateway of the present invention system comprises the computer system that sound card and call voice process software have been installed and the mail server of the system that handles postal matter, and directly links to each other with Internet.

The present invention compared with prior art has outstanding characteristics: the user can directly use ordinary telephone set, carry out the transmission and the reception of Email in the simplest mode, thereby Email can be popularized in China, also for the Internet service merchant enlarges method of service, increase customer volume simultaneously.Because the mail that the user uses plain old telephone to send among the present invention is the Email of the standard of a subsidiary voice document, therefore, the recipient can open this Email by original mode.Simultaneously, because the mail of native system management is the internet mail of standard, when the native system user uses the PC online or during in other local online, also can extract voice e-mail by the Internet.

Describe the present invention in detail below in conjunction with embodiment.

Definition:

Tmail: by the Email of phone sending and receiving.Tmail can be received and reduction by common e-mail system.

Tmail system: make ordinary telephone subscriber can use Tmail to communicate and make Tmail and standard electronic mail to realize interconnected one group of software and hardware.

Tmail account number: be set of number coding (similar ICQ number), make things convenient for the user to import by telephone key-press.Account can be related with a main e-mail accounts, and the Tmail information that sends to the Tmail account number all is sent in this e-mail accounts; Except that main e-mail accounts, the Tmail account number also can related a plurality of auxiliary electron mail accounts, make the user can receive the information of a plurality of e-mail accounts by the Tmail system.

Tmail is being provided the city or the area of service, all need setting up Tmail and insert the center, this access center can be that independently mechanism also can be attached to ISP (ISP).Because therefore existing ready-made phone line attachment and the internet of ISP built Tmail access center at ISP and had bigger advantage.Use the user of Tmail only need use the ordinary audio phone, and only need use standard electronic mailer and the computer of supporting voice playing, need not to increase any soft hardware equipment by the user of ordinary electronic mailing system transmitting-receiving Tmail.Therefore, implementing the Tmail system builds Tmail to insert the center.The access center must possess the Internet connection circuit of enough phone line attachments and enough bandwidth, and these all are standard facilitys.

The Tmail system realizes following function: speech channel queuing, authentication, operation indicating, voice recording, voice contract, extraction POP3 mail, transmission SMTP mail, charging.

The Tmail system forms and operation principle:

The Tmail system is made up of cti server cluster, data server cluster, network system and the software systems that operate on the server.For mini-system cti server and data server can be same computer.For large scale system, can form cti server cluster and data server cluster respectively by many computers.

1, cti server and data server are one or more special use or general calculation machine system, and typical general-purpose computing system will be moved Windows NT or UNIX operating system.Call voice disposable plates (as: Related product of dialogic) is installed on the cti server, moves corresponding Tmail systems soft ware.Replied and lined up by the call signal of its receiving telephone network network, by voice suggestion user operation, cti server is responsible for the decoding of phone double-audio signal simultaneously.

2, user profile is kept in the data server, gives data server behind cti server reception user number, the password and carries out verification, is used the function of Tmail system after the verification succeeds by the cti server prompting.

3, the user can be chargeed by data server after being communicated with the Tmail system.

If 4 send mail, the double audio coding of cti server identification telephone key, and convert recipient's Tmail address or standard Email address to, Mail Contents directly carries out the audio compression recording by cti server, the sender only need tell about the information that will transmit by phone, and phone is pressed # key or on-hook End of Tape.System also can provide function such as rerecord.Voice data after relevant addresses of items of mail and the compression is delivered in the data server, and data server sends to the SMTP mail format that they convert standard on the Internet.

5, data server has the SMTP mail server function, and Internet user can directly send to Email in the data server of Tmail.In addition, the Tmail data server also can regularly be collected the mail of specifying the E-mail address according to customer requirements, stores in the data server so that focus on and shorten the time of user's download Email.

6, if the user mails by computer internet, its operation with handle with to collect the ordinary electronic mail identical.When the user extracts mail by phone, after cti server reception user extracts the button request of mail, inquire about the quantity of mail in this subscriber mailbox by data server, and pass through phonetic synthesis, notify the user, but the content of mail is specified in user's selective extraction mail header or extraction.If the mail that extracts is Tmail, then cti server is directly with the reduction of the voice data in the mail and play to the user; If the mail that extracts is the plain text Email, then cti server plays to the user with literal by phonetic synthesis, and system can be by the quantity and the attachment title of annex in the user mail that tells by telephone.After having extracted mail, the button of can taking on the telephone selects to keep or delete the mail that has extracted, also can select to reply or transmit this mail simultaneously at once.

7, to the setting of Tmail account number, as: revise password etc., can finish, also can surf the Net and finish by browser by phone control.

The Tmail system is the product of a cover software and hardware combining, and it is based upon on one group of general hardware platform, and its function mainly realizes that by software the software that comprises in the system has:

1, voice service system: identification shake bell, double-tone button, the on-hook frequently line status of expecting someone's call, according to different condition prompting user operations with call different functions;

2, telephonograph and compressibility: in real time the audio signal of phone is converted to and compress after the digital signal and store on the hard disk;

3, speech synthesis system: the identification text also plays back its pronunciation from telephone terminal;

4, user management and charge system: the increasing, delete, change and use charging of subscriber data;

5, expansion mail server: comprise smtp server, POP3 server and client;

6, total management system: coordinate the work of above-mentioned each system, for the system manager provides management interface.

In the Tmail service system that the Internet service merchant sets up, comprising: (1) plain old telephone trunk line or digital trunk are used to receive user's access; (2) the sound card system that is connected with telephone wire is used to the input information of pointing out user's input information and accepting the user; The computer system of (3) one cover operation Windows NT or UNIX; (4) one covers run on the Subscriber Management System of Windows NT platform or unix platform, are used for the account of leading subscriber, and the reference format (as: wav form) of user's voice information by the Internet compressed; (5) one covers run on the Mail Gateway system of Windows NT platform or unix platform, be responsible for mail and voice document that the user need send are got in touch with agreement and the mail server of POP3, and user's mail mail to mail server, this system also extracts user's mail from mail server with the POP3 agreement, and the voice document in the annex opened to deliver to pass to the user after sound card is handled, pass through the voice reading routine processes for title in the mail and text, become voice document, pass to the user after handling by sound card again; (6) one covers run on the mailing system of Windows NT platform or unix platform, the transmitting-receiving of being responsible for handling postal matter.

The user of native system is receiving and dispatching mail in the following ways:

A, send the Email step:

1, the user dials Internet service merchant's service number;

2, the system prompt user keys in user name (numeral name);

3, system prompt key feeding cipher;

4, behind the system verification user,, then returned for the 2nd step,, then hang up the telephone as repeating 3 times if not right;

5, the system prompt user can select to send or receive mail and (as by 1, send mail; By 2, receive mail), select send mail by 1 this moment;

6, the system prompt user imports receiver's addresses of items of mail, with the coded system input, because most of phones all have the letter key bitmap, can encode with reference to this key bitmap, as A:41 B:42,, also can import by the mode of coding for symbol common in some Emails;

7, the address that the user keys in is read by system, and the user can select heavily defeated or confirm;

8, after the user confirmed the address, the system prompt user began recording;

9, the user keys in # number, the expression End of Tape;

10, system is compressed into voice document with recording, passes to the Mail Gateway system together with receiver's address, encloses the explanation to this mailing system in the text of mail, requires the receiver to enclose a voice document in letter in reply;

11, the Mail Gateway system delivers to mailing system with mail with the POP3 agreement, is sent by the Internet by mailing system again.

The step of b, reception Email:

1, the user dials Internet service merchant's service number;

2, the system prompt user keys in user name (numeral name);

3, system prompt key feeding cipher;

4, user's selective reception mail;

5, system reads user mail by the Mail Gateway system with the POP3 form from mailing system;

6, number of mail is read with phonetic matrix by system, and the prompting user key-press selects to listen to mail;

7, after user key-press was confirmed to listen to mail, system read mail sender's addresses of items of mail in order, and play the phonetic matrix file in the annex;

8, the system prompt user can select to listen to next envelope mail, can select whether to keep this mail or delete this mail.

Claims (3)

1, a kind of information service system of using ordinary telephone set to send and receive international internet standard Email is characterized in that: set up a cover the Internet service merchant and serve system, comprise (1) plain old telephone trunk line or digital trunk; (2) the sound card system that is connected with telephone wire; The computer system of (3) one cover operation Windows NT or UNIX; (4) one covers run on the Subscriber Management System of Windows NT platform or unix platform; (5) one covers run on the Mail Gateway system of Windows NT platform or unix platform; (6) one covers run on the mailing system of Windows NT platform or unix platform; The user of this service system uses ordinary telephone set to send voice mail, adopt the mode of digital coding input alphabet and bis to input user name by telephone key-press, password and recipient's e-mail address, the content that will need to send by phone is recorded then, the lang sound press of going forward side by side contracts, the mail that sends is the Email of the standard of a band voice document annex, the recipient extracts Email by ordinary telephone set, if Email is the band voice document, voice document is play, for the addresser address, mail header, body matter transfers voice signal to by speech synthesis technique and notifies the user.

2, information service system as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described Mail Gateway system comprises the computer system that sound card and call voice process software have been installed and the mail server of the system that handles postal matter, and directly links to each other with Internet.

3, as claims 1 or 2 described information service systems, it is characterized in that: the employed telephone set of user is the audio telephone of an any kind.