Patent ID: 7512657
Filing Date: 2009-03-31
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A message transmission and reception controlling system for controlling transmission and reception of messages among account users of this system through a communication network comprising a message processing server and a plurality of user terminals which are used by the account users, said message processing server comprising: a message property information database unit operable to store the sender, destination addresses, transmission time, reception time, and title of each message, and information about whether or not the message body of each message has been received by a plurality of receiving account users; a message body information storage unit operable to store the message body of each message; a messages process controlling unit operable to an e-mail process server connected to the messages process controlling unit, operable to receive a message which is transmitted from a sending account user and addressed to a receiving e-mail user through the messages process controlling unit and send this message to the receiving e-mail user as an e-mail message, and operable to receive an e-mail message from a sending e-mail user and addressed to a receiving account user and transmit the e-mail message to the receiving account user through the messages process controlling unit, each terminal of the plurality of user terminals comprising: a personal computer configured to display a reception screen containing the titles of a plurality of messages, and a message display screen containing a message body, wherein when one of the messages is selected in said reception screen by one of the receiving account users, the user terminal of said one receiving account user sends a request for transmission of the message body of the selected message to said message processing server, wherein when the message body of the selected message is received by the user terminal of said one receiving account user, the message body is displayed in the message display screen along with a listing of other receiving account users other than said one receiving account user, wherein the listing includes the information about whether or not each of the other receiving account users has received the message body respectively and, if received, when the message was received by each of the other receiving account users.