Patent ID: 6629131
Filing Date: 2003-09-30
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
An electronic mailing method on the Internet with a function of reception confirmation comprising:(a) assigning a unique code to an e-mail of a sender and recording in a database the information on the unique code assigned to the e-mail; (b) attaching to the e-mail, to which the unique code was assigned in the step of (a), a CGI (common gateway interface) executive program that automatically sends to the web server of the sender the unique code that was assigned in the step (a) when the receiver receives the e-mail; (c) sending the unique code of the received e-mail to the web server of the sender by the automatic execution of the CGI executive program when the e-mail, to which the unique code was assigned in the step of (a) and to which the CGI executive program was attached in the step of (b), is received by the receiver; and (d) comparing the unique code of e-mail that was sent in the step (c) and the unique code that was recorded in the step (a) and, if they are identical, sending reception confirmation information to the sender.