JP2010282632A - Receiving mail notification method and receiving mail notification device in mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a receiving mail notification method and a receiving mail notification device in a mobile communication terminal, which can notify a mail receiver of mail reception by changing a receiving sound of mail reception according to a mail title or a mail transmitter who is registered in an address book. <P>SOLUTION: The receiving mail notification method notifies the mail receiver of mail reception by ringing the different receiving sounds that are previously set for a return mail and a transfer mail if a received mail is determined as either the return mail or the transfer mail from the mail title for the receiving mail, and also notifies the mail receiver of mail reception by ringing the receiving sound to be pre-set for corresponding to each mail address of the address book if the receiving mail is a new mail except for the return mail and the transfer mail as well as a mail sender is registered in the address book. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a received mail notification method and a received mail notification device in a mobile communication terminal, and in particular, when a mail type is a return mail or a forward mail, the mobile communication terminal notifies this by different ringing. The received mail notification method and the received mail notification device in FIG.

  In recent years, mobile communication terminals such as mobile terminals and PHS have become highly functional, and electronic mail can be exchanged with information terminals such as personal computers via the Internet. When this type of electronic mail is exchanged, the mail center is often checked for the presence or absence of an electronic mail, and the mail center automatically notifies or receives an incoming mail. In this case, there is a method that notifies the presence / absence of a mail addressed to the terminal itself, or notifies a mail by ringing at the same time as an incoming call.

JP 2000-27875 A

  However, in the above prior art, for example, when an e-mail arrives at a mail center, this is uniformly notified, so the user operates the terminal each time there is a notification. Therefore, it is necessary to confirm the contents of the mail, and frequently operating the mobile communication terminal has become a complicated task for the user. In particular, when the usage rate of e-mail increases and various e-mails arrive, for example, when sending e-mail and waiting for a reply, return e-mail and other e-mails that want to know immediately that there was an incoming e-mail Must be differentiated to reduce the user's effort to check emails. Therefore, the present invention provides a received mail notification method and received mail notification in a mobile communication terminal capable of changing and notifying a ringtone of mail reception according to a mail title or a sender registered in an address book. A device is provided.

  In order to solve the above problem, the invention described in claim 1 is characterized in that the mail ringing tone is changed according to the mail title of the received mail. With this configuration, the type of received mail can be determined when the ring tone is heard.

  In the invention described in claim 2, when it is determined from the mail title of the received mail that the received mail is either the returned mail or the forwarded mail, different ringtones set in advance for the returned mail and the forwarded mail. It is characterized by notifying the reception of mail by ringing. With this configuration, it is possible to determine whether the received mail is one of the return mail, the forward mail, or another new mail when the ring tone is heard.

  The invention described in claim 3 corresponds to each mail address in the address book in advance when the received mail is a new mail other than the return mail and the forward mail and the mail sender is registered in the address book. It is characterized by notifying the reception of the mail by ringing with the set ringtone. By configuring in this way, it is possible to know whether the received mail is a return mail or a forwarded mail by the ring tone, and when it is another new mail and the sender of the mail is registered in the address book It is possible to receive a notification with a ring tone according to the caller.

  The invention described in claim 4 is different from the mail address storage unit (for example, the mail address storage unit A in the embodiment) for storing a mail address, the ring tone corresponding to the mail address, the return mail, and the forward mail. A ringtone storage unit (for example, ringtone storage unit B in the embodiment) that stores the ringtone and a sender search unit (for example, sender search in the embodiment) that searches the sender of the received mail from the mail address storage unit Part C), a mail type determination unit (for example, a mail type determination unit D in the embodiment) for determining whether the mail is a return mail, a forward mail, or a new mail from the mail title of the received mail, and the received mail is returned by the mail type determination unit If it is determined that it is either mail or forwarded mail, or the sender of the received mail is sent by the sender search unit A ringtone output control section (for example, an embodiment) that selects a ringtone corresponding to a returned mail, forwarded mail, or searched mail address from the ringtone storage section and outputs an output when retrieved from the dress storage section And a ring tone output control unit E). With this configuration, when a mail is received, the mail type determination unit determines whether it is a return mail or a forwarded mail from the mail title of the received mail. A corresponding ring tone is instructed to be output by the ring tone output control unit. On the other hand, when the received mail is a new mail other than the return mail or the forwarded mail, the sender search unit searches the mail address storage unit for the source of the received mail, and if the search is successful, the call is stored in the ringtone storage unit. A ring tone corresponding to the user is instructed to be output by the ring tone output control unit.

  As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the type of received mail can be determined when the ring tone is heard, so whether or not the received mail needs to be read immediately. There is an effect that can be determined without reading the mail. Therefore, there is an effect that it is freed from complicated work such as reading unimportant mail every time an incoming call is received.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the ring tone is heard, it is possible to determine whether the received mail is either a return mail or a forward mail. For example, waiting for a reply to the mail In such a case, there is an effect that the arrival of the mail can be quickly known. Therefore, there is an effect that it is freed from complicated work such as reading unimportant mail every time an incoming call is received.

  According to the invention described in claim 3, it is possible to know from the ring tone whether the received mail is a return mail or a forward mail, and for other new mail, the sender of the mail is registered in the mail address. In some cases, it is possible to receive a notification with a ring tone according to the caller. Therefore, if the received mail is a new mail, the caller who is registered with the mail address according to the caller registered in the mail address There is an effect that can be known at the same time as the incoming call.

  According to the invention described in claim 4, it is possible to know from the ring tone whether the received mail is a return mail or a forward mail, and when the received mail is another new mail, the sender of the mail is set to the mail address. If registered, it is possible to receive a notification with a ring tone according to the caller. Therefore, if the received mail is a new mail, the ring tone according to the caller registered in the mail address There is an effect that it is possible to know at the same time the incoming call whether the call originates from.

It is a block diagram of the mobile communication terminal of embodiment of this invention. It is a functional block diagram which makes the summary of this invention. It is a flowchart figure which shows the mail reception process of embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the registration content of the address book of embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the other registration content of the address book of embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of LCD at the time of mail reception of embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of LCD at the time of the other mail reception of embodiment of this invention.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. The mobile communication terminal 1 can send and receive text messages via the Internet by accessing a mail center. In addition, the presence or absence of a mail can be known by a notification method selected from ringing sound, vibration, and visual display, and a desired mail can be automatically captured.

  In FIG. 1, a transmission / reception circuit unit 11 is a circuit that executes transmission / reception processing in the mobile communication terminal 1 under the control of the CPU 12, and an antenna 16 is connected to the transmission / reception circuit unit 11. The CPU 12 operates according to a control signal from the operation key 18 and the transmission / reception circuit unit 11 in accordance with a program described in the ROM 17, and controls the transmission / reception circuit unit 11, the LCD driver 20, and the voice processing unit 13 to perform call processing in voice communication. I do. In addition, when an operation for receiving a mail list addressed to itself that has arrived at the mail center is performed, the CPU 12 notifies the reception of the mail according to a notification method described later. In addition, even if the CPU 12 rejects the connection with the mail center because the ID (authentication number) or password transmitted to the mail center is wrong, the notification method selected by the user from audible sound, vibration, or visual display To that effect.

  A RAM 19 is connected to the CPU 12. The RAM 19 is used as a work area when executing the program described in the ROM 17 to execute call processing and various functions in voice communication. Further, a flash memory 24 is connected to the CPU 12, and the created text message for transmission, the text message fetched from the mail center, the data registered in the address book, and the like are stored in the flash memory 24 which is a nonvolatile memory. .

  The LCD driver 20 drives the LCD 22 which is a liquid crystal display based on the control of the CPU 12 and performs display control thereof. That is, the LCD driver 20 reads a character pattern (including numbers) and an icon (graphic) pattern corresponding to the control signal from the CPU 12 from the font ROM 21 and displays them on the LCD 22. The audio processing unit 13 is a circuit that performs an amplification process of the audio signal, and is connected to the speaker 14 and the microphone 15.

  The vibrator 23 is a vibration device that notifies the user of an incoming call by vibrating the entire telephone instead of a ringing sound under the control of the CPU 12, for example. The voice synthesis LSI 25 is a circuit that synthesizes and combines voices based on data in the voice ROM 26 in which rules for generating digitized voice signals or voices are stored under the control of the CPU 12. The voice artificially created by the voice synthesis LSI 25 is sent to the voice processing unit 13 via the CPU 12 and output from the speaker 14. The LED 30 is, for example, a red LED located at the upper part of the operation surface of the mobile phone, and is a visible display unit that is lit or blinked when charging or receiving a call under the control of the CPU 12. It is also notified in the same way when the ID or password is different.

  Next, FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram forming the gist of the present invention. This functional block diagram mainly shows processing in the CPU 12. In FIG. 2, a mail address storage unit A stores a mail address and corresponds to the flash memory 24. The ringtone storage unit B stores a ringtone corresponding to the mail address and different ringtones corresponding to the return mail and the forward mail, and corresponds to the flash memory 24. In addition, the ring tone when the corresponding mail address does not exist is also stored in the ring tone storage unit B. Here, the return mail is mail that is sent to the user when the other party performs a reply operation on the mail that the user has sent. Also, the forward mail means mail that sends the received mail as it is to another party. The other mail means a new mail.

  Specifically, the registered contents of the address book in the flash memory 24 are, for example, “name: Suzuki, phone number: 090-XX, mail address: abc @, as shown in FIG. 4 using the display state of the address book. def.ne.jp, mail ringing tone type: 5 ". For another registrant shown in FIG. 5, “name: Tanaka, telephone number: 090-XX, mail address: xyz@def.ne.jp, mail ringtone type: 3”. That is, it is registered by changing the type of mail ringtone for each registrant. The ringtone storage unit B can register different ringtones corresponding to return mail and forward mail in the flash memory 24.

  The sender search unit C searches the mail address storage unit A for the sender of the received mail, and corresponds to the CPU 12. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 6 using the display state at the time of mail reception, the sender's character information in the received mail is searched from the mail address items in the address book shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. It is searched whether or not there is a registrant to be registered. For example, if there is a received mail shown in FIG. 6, the mail address abc @ def. ne. When jp is read and retrieved from the address book, it is retrieved that the mail is from Mr. Suzuki shown in FIG. On the other hand, if there is a received mail shown in FIG. 7, the mail address xyz @ def. ne. When jp is read and retrieved from the address book, it is retrieved that the mail is from Mr. Tanaka shown in FIG.

  The mail type determination unit D determines whether the mail is a return mail, a forward mail or a new mail from the mail title of the received mail, and corresponds to the CPU 12. For example, when there is a received mail shown in FIG. 7, the character string “RE:” is read from the mail title item of the received mail, and it is determined that this mail is a return mail. Although not shown, when the character string “FW:” is read in the mail title, it is determined that this mail is a forwarded mail. On the other hand, as in the case of the received mail shown in FIG. 6, when neither of the characters “RE:” and “FW:” is present in the mail title item of the received mail, it is determined that this mail is a new mail. judge.

  The ring tone output control unit E stores the mail address of the sender of the received mail when the mail type determining unit D determines that the received mail is either a return mail or a forwarded mail or by the sender searching unit C. When a search is made from the part A, a ringtone corresponding to the returned mail, forwarded mail, or searched mail address is selected from the ringtone storage part B and output is instructed. .

  That is, when the mail type determination unit D determines that the received mail is the return mail shown in FIG. 7, the ringtone output control unit E sets the ringtone for the return mail registered in the ringtone storage unit B. An output instruction is issued, whereby a ringtone for returning mail is output from the speaker 14 via the voice processing unit 13. In the case of a forwarded mail, similarly, an instruction to output a forwarded mail ringtone is issued, and a forwarded mail ringtone is output from the speaker 14 via the voice processing unit 13. On the other hand, when the mail type determination unit D determines that the received mail is a new mail shown in FIG. 6, the ring tone corresponding to the mail address searched by the sender search unit C is received by the ring tone output control unit E. An output instruction is given, whereby the ring tone is output from the speaker 14 via the voice processing unit 13. If the sender of the new mail is not registered in the address book, the corresponding ring tone is output from the speaker 14 according to the output instruction from the ring tone output control unit E as described above.

  Next, mail receiving processing will be described based on the flowchart of FIG. When the mail is received in step S1, the process proceeds to step S2 to determine whether or not the mail title is “RE:”. If the determination result in step S2 is “YES” (if it is a return mail), the process proceeds to step S7, where a return mail ringing tone is generated and “Reply mail received” is displayed on the LCD 22 and processing is performed. Exit. If the determination result in step S2 is “NO” (if it is other than a return mail), the process proceeds to step S3.

  In step S3, it is determined whether or not the mail title is “FW:”. If the determination result in step S3 is “YES” (if it is a forwarded mail), the process proceeds to step S8, where the forwarded mail is ringed and “Received forwarded mail” is displayed on the LCD 22 and processed. Exit. If the determination result in step S3 is “NO” (if it is a new mail), the process proceeds to step S4.

  In step S4, the sender's mail address is searched from the address book, and the process proceeds to step S5. That is, it is searched whether the new mail is a mail from a caller registered in the address book. In step S5, it is determined whether the search is successful. If the search is successful, that is, if there is a corresponding caller, the process proceeds to step S6, where the corresponding registrant's ring tone is output and “New Mail Received” is displayed on the LCD 22 and the process is terminated. To do.

  As a result of the determination in step S5, if the search fails, that is, if the corresponding caller does not exist, the process proceeds to step S9, where a ring tone when no registrant exists is output and “new mail” is displayed on the LCD 22. "Receive" is displayed and the process is terminated. In this way, the mail ringtone is changed according to the mail title of the received mail or according to the registrant of the address book, that is, the return mail, the forwarded mail, and the preset different for each registrant of the address book. Convenience has been improved by adopting a method of ringing tones and notifying the reception of mail.

  Therefore, according to this embodiment, when the mobile communication terminal 1 receives a mail, if the mail address of the mail sender is registered in the address book, the ring tone registered in the address book is used. If the caller is not registered, it will be notified by ringing the corresponding ringtone, so the sender can be identified when the user hears the ringtone. Increases nature. In addition, when “RE:” for return mail or “FW:” for forward mail is added to the title of the received mail, the ring tone assigned to the return mail or forward mail is sounded to notify Therefore, when the user hears the ring tone, it is possible to determine whether the return mail or the forward mail is different. In addition, since the type of received mail is displayed on the LCD 22 together with the ringtone, visual confirmation can be performed without any trouble.

  Therefore, when the user hears the ringtone of the mail, the user can determine whether the mail is a reply mail, forwarded mail, new mail from the address book registrant, or new mail other than the address book registrant. This increases convenience. In particular, when you are waiting for a reply or contact with an email you sent, such as a reply email or forwarded email, you can quickly know when the email has arrived. It is freed from such complicated work. Therefore, unlike the conventional method in which each mail is differentiated and not notified, it is possible to select a mail that needs to be read urgently, and is freed from the troublesome work of checking all mail every time there is an incoming call.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment. For example, “RE:” indicating a return mail and “FW:” indicating a forwarded mail are examples. If the type of mail can be determined, the character string It is not limited to. It is also possible to read a specific character string (for example, urgent or urgent) from the mail body and output a special ring tone corresponding to the character string.

A mail address storage unit B ringtone storage unit C sender search unit D mail type determination unit E ringtone output control unit

Claims (4)

  A received mail notification method in a mobile communication terminal, wherein a mail ringtone is changed according to a mail title of a received mail.   When it is determined from the mail title of the received mail that the received mail is either the returned mail or the forwarded mail, it will ring with a different ringtone set in advance for the returned mail and the forwarded mail to notify the reception of the mail. A received mail notification method in a mobile communication terminal.   If the received mail is a new mail other than a return mail or forwarded mail, and the mail sender is registered in the address book, it rings with a ring tone set in advance corresponding to each mail address in the address book. 3. The received mail notification method for a mobile communication terminal according to claim 2, wherein the reception of the mail is notified.   A mail address storage unit for storing a mail address, a ringtone corresponding to a mail address, a ringtone storage unit for storing different ringtones corresponding to a return mail and a forwarded mail, and a sender of a received mail as a mail address The sender search part that searches from the mail part, the mail type judgment part that judges whether the mail is returned mail, forwarded mail, or new mail from the mail title of the received mail, and whether the received mail is returned mail or forwarded mail by the mail type judgment part If it is determined that the sender is the sender of the received mail from the mail address storage section, the return mail, forwarded mail, or ringtone corresponding to the searched mail address is sent. A mobile communication terminal comprising: a ringtone output control unit that selects and outputs a ringtone from a ringtone storage unit Reception in the e-mail notification device.

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