JP2002366491A - Method and device for displaying significance level of electronic mail - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To instantaneously judge the significance level of an electronic mail, and to display the electronic mail with the significance level. SOLUTION: A control part 30 of a portable telephone set which receives an electronic mail reads a keyword inputted as an element for deciding the significance level of the electronic mail, and refers to the read keyword and the distributed electronic mail, and judges the matching of the keyword, and totals the number of the matched keywords. Then, the distributed electronic mail is displayed in a configuration such as a display color or keyword different from the original display configuration based on the size of the totaled number of the keywords.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic mail importance display method and display device, and more particularly, to the total number of keywords that are consistent with a keyword input as an element for determining the importance of electronic mail. The present invention relates to an electronic mail importance display method and a display device for displaying a distributed electronic mail in a form different from the original display form on the basis of an identifier of the electronic mail having a matching keyword.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As e-mail systems have become widespread, the number of received e-mails has been increasing. In particular, subscribing to a mailing list has the advantage that the latest information can be obtained at fixed time intervals. However, unnecessary mails may be delivered, which may hinder the collection of necessary information. For this purpose, a technique for intentionally selecting desired e-mail has been disclosed. For example, important senders, priority mail keywords, general mail report methods, etc. are registered, and when mail arrives, it is determined whether the name of the important sender is registered and whether the priority mail keyword is included. Check to distinguish between important emails and general emails, display important emails accordingly, and if the keyword is not included, simply report arrival based on whether the general email reporting method is registered or not. There is a technique for reporting arrival at the time of logout (hereinafter, abbreviated as Conventional Technique 1) (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-286988). In addition, for an e-mail sent from a server-side e-mail system to a mailing list in which a plurality of members are registered, it is necessary to add importance to the transmitted e-mail after browsing the e-mail on the client side. A technique of adding importance to the determined e-mail and notifying it to the server-side e-mail system, thereby notifying the members registered in the mailing list of the server-side e-mail system of the importance (hereinafter referred to as Conventional Technique 2) (Patent No. 2)
990125). These prior arts 1 and 2
According to the method, the e-mail is distinguished in accordance with a predetermined agreement, so that a certain e-mail can be selected from many e-mails.

[0003]

However, there is a problem in that the user has to confirm the contents of all the e-mails which are finally regarded as having high importance, which takes a great deal of labor and time. Was. The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to display the importance of a delivered e-mail so that it can be immediately judged and the degree thereof, or to be able to immediately judge and the contents thereof. To provide an electronic mail importance display method and display device.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of reading a keyword input as an element for determining the importance of an electronic mail, and referring to the read keyword and the distributed electronic mail to read the keyword. Determining the match, summing the number of keywords matched by the determination, and displaying the delivered e-mail in a form different from the original display form based on the total number of keywords. This is a method of displaying importance of an electronic mail.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the electronic mail importance display method according to the first aspect, the step of displaying the delivered electronic mail in a different form from the original display form includes the step of displaying the display color of the e-mail subject. , Or by replacing the subject of the email with the keyword and displaying the keyword.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, a step of reading a keyword input as an element for determining the importance of an electronic mail, and a step of referring to the read keyword and the distributed electronic mail to determine a match between the keywords. Providing an identifier to the e-mail matched by the determination, and displaying the delivered e-mail in a form different from the original display form based on the provided identifier. This is a method for displaying the importance of mail.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the electronic mail importance display method according to the third aspect, the step of displaying the delivered electronic mail in a form different from the original display form includes the step of giving the identifier. This is a method of displaying the importance of an e-mail, which is a step of displaying the e-mail at a different display position or displaying the e-mail in another window.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a means for reading a keyword input as an element for determining the importance of an electronic mail, and a means for referring to the read keyword and the distributed electronic mail to determine a match between the keywords. And means for summing the number of keywords matched by the determination, and means for displaying the delivered e-mail in a form different from the original display form based on the size of the total number of keywords. Is an electronic mail importance display device.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a means for reading a keyword input as an element for determining the importance of an electronic mail, and a means for referring to the read keyword and the distributed electronic mail to determine a match between the keywords. And means for assigning an identifier to the e-mail matched by the determination, and means for displaying the delivered e-mail in a form different from the original display form based on the assigned identifier. This is a mail importance display device.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is an external explanatory view of a mobile phone as an electronic mail importance display device to which the present invention is applied.
The mobile phone 1 is provided with an antenna 21 of a drawer housing at the upper end 20A of the box-shaped case 20 and a front surface 20B.
Is provided with a display unit 22 composed of a liquid crystal display and an input unit 23 composed of operation keys. Also front 20B
A speaker 24 is housed inside the upper side of the camera, and a microphone 25 is housed inside the lower side of the front surface 20B. Further, on the side surface 20C, a slot 27 for mounting a removable memory, for example, a memory stick (registered trademark: Sony Corporation) 26, and a headphone jack 28 are provided.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the internal configuration of the portable telephone. The control unit 30 includes a CPU, a ROM and a RAM (not shown).
And loads the basic programs and applications stored in the ROM in advance into the RAM, and controls the mobile phone according to the loaded basic programs and applications. In the case of realizing the function as a telephone, first, at the time of transmission, when a telephone number is input or a call request is made by a key operation from the input unit 23, the control unit 30 responds accordingly and the communication processing unit 31 and the antenna 21 Through the base station (not shown) to connect to the other party's telephone. Next, the communication processing unit 31 modulates the voice data collected from the microphone 25, and transmits the modulated voice data to the base station via the antenna 21. At the time of reception, received data is fetched from the antenna 21 to the communication processing unit 31, demodulated, and then output as voice through the speaker 24 to realize a call. In the case of digital data communication such as e-mail, the same operation is performed to execute the same, and data is stored in a storage device (not shown) of the control unit 30 and displayed on the display unit 22.

(Embodiment 1) In one embodiment of the present invention, the display color of the subject of an e-mail is changed according to the number of matches of a predetermined keyword included in the e-mail, or the subject is replaced with a keyword and displayed. It is displayed in a different form from the original display form. Hereinafter, a process of calculating the number of matching keywords for a delivered e-mail, which is illustrated in FIG. 3 according to the present embodiment, will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. FIG. 3 is an example of a distributed electronic mail, which includes a message with the subject “Latest Computer News” and a black triangle mark. MTT users
We are interested in Laboratories, servers and networks, and treat related messages containing this keyword as important messages. For this purpose, the user first inputs the keywords “MTT”, “server”, and “network” from the input unit 23 of the mobile phone 1 and performs a predetermined key operation for performing the importance determination function based on the number of matching keywords. I do. With this operation, the mobile phone 1 starts an operation of counting the number of matching keywords.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of an operation for counting the number of matching keywords. When the key operation is performed,
This operation starts, and an initial value setting counter (not shown) is set to 0.
(S11), and a CPU (not shown) of the control unit 30
Reads input keywords K (i) (i = 1 to N) (where i is a keyword and N is the total number) and stores them in a RAM (not shown). In the present embodiment, the read keywords i are MTT, server, and network, and thus the total number N is 3. Subsequently, the counter sets the count value to 1 (S13),
For the first keyword (in this example, MTT), a search is started for the mail text (S14), and it is checked whether or not the keyword matches (S15). If there is a keyword match (S15, YES), 1 is added to the count value of the keyword counter (S16), and it is checked whether the search has been completed up to the end of the mail text (S17). If there is no keyword match (S15, NO), it is checked whether the search has been completed up to the end of the mail text (S15).
17). If it has not been completed (S17, NO), the process returns to step 14 (S14), moves to the next vocabulary of the mail text and searches (S14), and thereafter repeats the same operation.
When the search is completed up to the end of the mail text (S17,
YES), the count value 1 of the initial value setting counter is added to 2 (S18), and it is checked whether the result is larger than N (= 3) (S19). If not large (S19, N
O) The same search operation as described above is performed for the next keyword (the server in this example). When the search for this keyword has been completed up to the end of the mail text (S1
7, YES), the count value of the initial value setting counter is incremented by 1 to 3 (S18), and it is checked whether the result is greater than N (= 3) (S19). In the present embodiment, since the count value 3 of the initial value setting counter has not yet exceeded N (= 3), the same search operation as described above is performed until the end of the mail text for the last keyword “network”.
At the end of the process, the initial value counter is further incremented by 1 to 4 (S18), and it is checked whether or not this value is larger than N (= 3) (S19).
9, YES), and terminates the keyword matching number process. During this time, the keyword count counter counts the number of matches for the keyword input by the user, so that the total number of keywords can be known from the count value. In this embodiment, the display color of the subject of the received e-mail is changed in accordance with the total number. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a display color corresponding to the number of matching keywords. In FIG. 5, black is displayed when the total number of matching keywords is 1, green when the total number of keywords is 2-3,
In the case of 4 to 5, yellow is displayed, and in the case of 6 or more, red is displayed. Further, in the present embodiment, when the total number of matching keywords is equal to or more than a predetermined number, the keyword itself is displayed as a subject instead of the subject of the e-mail. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of this. In the case of this embodiment, "MTT" is used instead of the original subject "Latest Computer Publishing".
Server Network is displayed as the subject.

According to the present embodiment, the subject is displayed in red, yellow, green, or the like in descending order according to the total number of matching keywords, so that the degree of importance can be immediately determined in multiple stages. Therefore, the determination is facilitated. In addition, since the subject is displayed as a keyword, the importance can be immediately determined, and the contents of the mail can be roughly grasped.

(Embodiment 2) In another embodiment of the present invention,
This is to mark a sentence of an e-mail including a predetermined keyword included in the e-mail and display the marked sentence at the beginning of the e-mail. Hereinafter, the process of marking a sentence including a keyword and displaying the sentence at the beginning of the e-mail with respect to the e-mail illustrated in FIG. 7 will be described. The keywords are “MTT”, “server”, and “network” as in the first embodiment. The user first inputs the keyword K (i) from the input unit 23 of the mobile phone 1 and performs a key operation necessary for specially specifying. When this operation is performed, the mobile phone 1 starts a marking operation. When this operation is started, the CPU of the control unit 30 sets an initial value setting counter (not shown) configured inside the mobile phone 1 to 0 (S21), and the inputted keyword K
(I) are read and stored in a RAM (not shown) (S22). Subsequently, the initial value setting counter sets the count value to 1 (S23), and the first keyword K
For (1), search for the text of the mail (S2
4) Check whether there is a keyword match (S25). If there is a keyword match (S25, YE
S), put a mark on the sentence containing the keyword (S2
6) It is checked whether the search has been completed up to the end of the mail text (S27). Even if there is no keyword match (S25, YES), it is checked whether the search has been completed up to the end of the mail text (S27).
When the search up to the end has not been completed (S27, N
O), returning to step 24 (S24), moving to the next vocabulary of the mail text and searching, and thereafter the same operation is repeated. When the search is completed up to the end of the mail text (S2
7, YES), the count value 1 of the initial value setting counter is added (S28), and it is checked whether the result is larger than N (S29). If not larger (S29, NO), the same search operation as described above is performed for the next keyword K (2). When this operation is performed for all the keywords, i exceeds N (S29, YES), so the control unit 3
0 completes the work of marking the message (text) including the keyword, and marks the texts in the order described.
Copy it to the beginning of the delivered e-mail (S30),
This processing ends. The copied e-mail is temporarily stored in a RAM (not shown) of the control unit 30 so as to overwrite the distributed e-mail.

FIG. 8 shows the e-mail shown in FIG.
"MTT Laboratories has developed a new P2P technology, which is a message containing the keywords" MTT "," Server "and" Network. "On April 27, MTT Laboratories established a communication form" P2P "(peer) that does not go through a server.
to peer) has developed a new technology "Hyperet". Hyperet is a software technology that directly searches for specific information in a personal computer on an IP network. Is shown at the beginning of the e-mail. This e-mail overwrites the original e-mail as described above,
M, it is possible to save the original e-mail, and it is also possible to store the edited e-mail in a removable external memory, for example, a memory stick (registered trademark:
(Sony Co., Ltd.) 26 and display it as needed.

Further, instead of copying and displaying the message including the keyword at the beginning of the electronic mail, the message may be displayed in a window. FIG. 9 shows an example in which the text is displayed in a window. In FIG. 9, the text copied at the beginning of the e-mail is displayed in a window near the original e-mail.

According to this embodiment, the keyword “MT”
The message containing "T", "Server" and "Network" is displayed at the beginning of the delivered email,
Alternatively, since the electronic mail is displayed in the window, the importance of the electronic mail can be immediately determined, and the content thereof can be grasped. Therefore, the information collection time can be reduced.

(Embodiment 3) A still further embodiment of the present invention provides a method for displaying an e-mail in a form different from the display form of the delivered e-mail based on the total number of keywords. To cause a mobile terminal, a mobile phone, or the like to execute each step of the importance display method or the method of displaying the importance of an email in which an email with an identifier is displayed in a form different from the display form of the delivered email. Computer-readable program, storing the program in a storage device such as a CD-ROM, and downloading the program to a mobile terminal, a mobile phone, or any other computer to easily execute the steps of the method. Is what you do. In the above-described embodiment of the present invention, the case where the program is used for processing on the client side has been described. However, the same effect can be obtained by executing the same processing on the mail server side.

[0020]

According to the first, second, and fifth aspects of the present invention, the electronic mail is displayed in a form different from the display form of the distributed electronic mail based on the total number of keywords. The importance of the mail can be immediately judged and displayed together with the degree. According to the third, fourth, and sixth aspects of the present invention, the electronic mail to which the identifier is assigned is displayed in a form different from the display form of the distributed electronic mail, so that the importance of the electronic mail can be immediately determined and the electronic mail can be determined. It can be displayed along with the content.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view illustrating a mobile phone to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is an internal schematic configuration diagram of a mobile phone to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a distributed electronic mail.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for calculating the number of matching keywords according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the number of matching keywords and the display color of a subject according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example in which a keyword is displayed as a subject instead of a subject of an e-mail according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flow diagram for marking a message and copying it to the beginning of an email according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a message including a keyword according to the embodiment of the present invention is copied at the beginning of an electronic mail.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a message including a keyword according to the embodiment of the present invention is displayed in a window.

[Explanation of symbols]

22..display part, 23..input part, 20A..top end, 20B ..
Front, 30 control section

Claims (6)

[Claims] A step of reading a keyword input as an element for determining the importance of an electronic mail; a step of referring to the read keyword and the distributed electronic mail to determine a match between the keywords; A process for summing up the number of matched keywords, and a process for displaying the delivered e-mail in a form different from the original display form based on the total number of keywords, which is important. Degree display method. 2. The electronic mail importance display method according to claim 1, wherein the step of displaying the delivered electronic mail in a form different from the original display form is performed by changing the display color of the e-mail subject. Or a step of replacing an email subject with the keyword and displaying the keyword. 3. A step of reading a keyword input as an element for determining the importance of the electronic mail, a step of referring to the read keyword and the distributed electronic mail to determine a match between the keywords, and A process of assigning an identifier to the matched e-mail, and a step of displaying the delivered e-mail in a form different from the original display form based on the assigned identifier, indicating the importance of the e-mail. Method. 4. The electronic mail importance display method according to claim 3, wherein the step of displaying the delivered electronic mail in a form different from the original display form includes displaying the electronic mail to which the identifier has been assigned. And displaying the e-mail in a separate window. 5. A means for reading a keyword input as an element for determining the degree of importance of an e-mail, a means for referring to the read keyword and a delivered e-mail to determine a match between the keywords, and An important part of the electronic mail characterized by having means for summing up the number of matched keywords, and means for displaying the delivered e-mail in a form different from the original display form based on the total number of keywords. Degree display device. 6. A means for reading a keyword input as an element for determining the importance of an e-mail, a means for referring to the read keyword and a delivered e-mail to determine a match between the keywords, Means for assigning an identifier to the matched e-mail, and means for displaying the delivered e-mail in a form different from the original display form based on the assigned identifier, the importance degree display of the e-mail apparatus.