JP5280289B2 - Mobile communication terminal, received mail display method and received mail display program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, a received mail display method, and a received mail display program, and more particularly to display of received mail.

  In a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone, a new mail may be received while the user is creating a mail. In such a case, when the user wants to check the contents of the received mail, the user temporarily saves the mail being created, and then calls the received mail, for example, a menu, and displays a list of received mail from the menu. It was necessary to select and select from the list to display the mail text.

  In Patent Document 1, when you want to refer to a previously received mail while creating a mail, call the menu, select the received mail list display from the menu, and select the mail you want to reference from the list It is disclosed that the text of the selected mail is displayed together with the text of the mail being created.

JP 2007-110464 A

By the way, when a new mail is received while composing an email, if you continue to create the email without checking the content of the received email, the email will be sent depending on the content of the received email. May have to recreate and send the mail again.
For example, if a user receives a new mail while composing a simple message such as "OK, let's go that day" to accept that the user will go on vacation at the date and time specified in the previously received mail Regardless, let's say you sent it without checking its contents. However, if the received email requires a date / time change, for example, "Can't you go tomorrow, can you change it on Saturday?", The date / time was inconvenient for the user In this case, since it is difficult for the receiver side to know which mail the reply is sent to, it is necessary to send again a mail indicating that it cannot be sent at a later designated date and time. This means that if the contents of the received mail are confirmed during the creation of the mail, the mail has been transmitted once.

Therefore, using the technique shown in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, the menu is called during creation of the mail, the list of received mail is selected from the menu, the received mail is selected from the list, It is possible to display the received mail together with the mail being created.
However, even when the technique described in Patent Document 1 described above is used, an operation such as calling a menu and selecting an email to be referred to is necessary, which is complicated for the user. can not deny.

  Therefore, the present invention solves the above-described complexity, and when a new mail is received during the creation of the mail, the mobile communication terminal and the received mail that can confirm the received mail more easily than before. It is an object to provide a display method and a received mail display program.

In order to solve the above problems, a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention includes at least one of a display unit, a reception unit that receives an input related to a first mail, and a first mail that corresponds to the input received by the reception unit. Display control means for displaying a part on the display part, receiving means for receiving mail , setting means for specifying and setting a specific mail address, and the display part at least for the first mail In the case where a part is displayed, whether or not the transmission source address of the second mail matches the specific mail address set by the setting means when the second mail is received by the receiving means Determination means for determining whether or not the display control means further determines at least a part of the second mail as at least one of the first mail when the determination means makes a positive determination. It is characterized by to be displayed on the display unit together.

In addition, the present invention is a received mail display method in a mobile communication terminal including a display unit, the receiving step for receiving an input related to the first mail, and the first mail corresponding to the input received in the receiving step A display step for displaying at least a part on the display unit, a receiving step for receiving a mail, a setting step for designating and setting a specific mail address, and the display unit for the first mail If at least a part is displayed, when the second mail is received in the receiving step, does the source address of the second mail match the specific mail address set in the setting step ? A determination step for determining whether or not, and when a positive determination is made in the determination step, at least a part of the second mail is transferred to the first mail. It is characterized by comprising a display control step of displaying on the display unit with at least a part of.

Moreover, this invention is a received mail display program which showed the process for displaying a received mail on the computer of a portable communication terminal provided with a display part, Comprising: The said process receives the input which concerns on a 1st mail. A display step for displaying at least a part of the first mail according to the input received in the reception step on the display unit, a reception step for receiving the mail, and a specific mail address are designated and set. And when the second mail is received in the receiving step when the display unit displays at least a part of the first mail, the sender of the second mail a determining step of determining whether or not the address matches a specific e-mail address set by the setting step, positive in the judgment step In the case where the determination is characterized by comprising a display control step of displaying on the display unit at least a part of the second mail with at least a portion of the first e-mail.

  With the configuration as described above, the mobile communication terminal, received mail display method, and received mail display program of the present invention, when a new mail is received during the creation of the mail, confirms the received mail more easily than before. be able to.

3 is a functional block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to Embodiment 1. FIG. It is an example of a mail creation screen when creating a mail on a mobile phone. It is a figure which shows an example of the address book which the portable communication terminal has memorize | stored. 6 is a diagram showing the contents of a received mail in the first embodiment. FIG. 4 is an example of a display screen when a mail is received from a partner who is a transmission destination during the creation of the mail in the first embodiment. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation related to display of received mail of the mobile communication terminal in the first embodiment. 6 is a functional block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to Embodiment 2. FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a data configuration example of group information in the second embodiment. It is a figure which shows the content of the received mail in Embodiment 2. FIG. FIG. 10 is an example of a display screen when a user in Embodiment 2 is creating a mail with a mobile phone and receives a mail from a partner included in the same group as the transmission destination. 10 is a flowchart showing an operation related to display of received mail of the mobile communication terminal in the second embodiment. 6 is a functional block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to Embodiment 3. FIG. FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a data configuration example of a priority display list in the third embodiment. It is a figure which shows the content of the received mail in Embodiment 3. FIG. 14 is an example of a display screen when a mail is received from a specific partner during the creation of the mail in the third embodiment. 12 is a flowchart showing an operation related to display of received mail of the mobile communication terminal in the third embodiment.

Hereinafter, a mobile phone which is an embodiment of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The following description of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention also serves as a description of the received mail display method and the received mail display program according to the present invention.
<Embodiment 1>
<Configuration>
FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the mobile communication terminal 100.

As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile communication terminal 100 includes a communication unit 110, a display unit 120, a voice processing unit 130, an operation unit 140, a storage unit 150, and a control unit 160.
The communication unit 110 has a function of demodulating the reception signal received from the antenna 111 into a reception voice signal and a reception data signal, and outputting the demodulated reception voice signal and reception data signal to the control unit 160. In addition, the communication unit 110 modulates the transmission voice signal A / D converted by the voice processing unit 130 obtained via the control unit 160 and the transmission data signal such as an e-mail given from the control unit 160, and performs communication. A function of outputting from the antenna 111 for the antenna.

The display unit 120 is a display such as an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), and displays an image according to an instruction from the control unit 160, for example, a mail creation screen.
The voice processing unit 130 performs D / A conversion on the received voice signal output from the communication unit 110 and outputs it to the speaker 132, and A / D converts the transmission voice signal acquired from the microphone 131 to be converted. It has a function of outputting a signal to the control unit 160.

The operation unit 140 includes a numeric keypad group, an on-hook key, an off-hook key, a direction key, an enter key, a mail key, a side key, and the like, and has a function of outputting operation contents to the control unit 160 in response to a user operation. Via the operation unit 140, the user can designate a mail transmission destination or input the contents of the mail text.
The storage unit 150 includes a ROM (Read Only Memory) and a RAM (Random Access Memory), and is realized by a small hard disk or a memory. The storage unit 150 has a function of storing music data, image data, and the like in addition to various data and programs necessary for the operation of the mobile communication terminal 100.

The control unit 160 is a CPU (Central Processing Unit), has a function of controlling each unit of the mobile communication terminal 100, and has the following functions (a) to (c) in addition to the functions held by a normal mobile phone. Have
That is, (a) a mailer is activated by an instruction input by a user, and a mail creation screen is displayed on the display unit 120 according to the user input. The mail creation screen is a screen on which a mail destination and a mail text can be input.

(B) When a mail is received when the mail creation screen is displayed on the display unit 120 with the determination unit 161 and the mail creation screen is displayed, the mail address indicated by the destination of the mail being created and the reception It is determined whether or not the email address of the sent email matches.
(C) If the determination unit 161 determines that they match, a pop-up message indicating that a mail has arrived is displayed on the display unit 120, and then the body area of the mail being created is divided into , Display the text of the mail being created and the text of the received mail on the other side. The text area is the text area 204 as shown in FIG. 2, and the text display area 502 is the text display area 502 as shown in FIG. The area to be used is the received mail display area 503 in FIG. The control unit 160 divides the number of lines that can be displayed in the text area 204, and sets the upper area as the text display area 502 and the lower area as the received mail display area 503. Then, the control unit 160 displays the text of the mail being created on the display unit 120 by the number of lines allocated as the text display area 502, and from the number of lines allocated as the received mail display area 503, from whom Only the number of lines obtained by subtracting the number of lines for displaying a message indicating whether it is a mail is displayed on the display unit 120 from the top of the received mail.

  In addition, when the text of the received mail is displayed together with the mail that is already being created, the control section 160 displays a GUI (Graphical User Interface) asking whether to switch the display content to the newly received mail. It also has a function to display on the screen. When the user selects display of a newly received mail in the GUI, the control unit 160 updates the display content of the received mail text displayed so far with the text of the newly received mail. It has the function to do. When the user selects not to display the text of the newly received mail, the control unit 160 does not update the display using the text of the newly received mail.

On the other hand, when the determination unit 161 determines that they do not match, the control unit 160 has a function of notifying only that an incoming mail has been received. As a notification method, a conventional method such as displaying a pop-up message, displaying an icon of received mail, or vibrating a vibrator (not shown) is used. Note that the determination unit 161 determines that they do not match even when the transmission destination is not input.
<Display contents>
FIG. 2 is an example of a mail creation screen displayed on the display of the mobile communication terminal.

As shown in FIG. 2, the mail creation screen includes a transmission destination designation area 201 for designating a mail transmission destination, a subject area 202 for inputting a subject indicating a mail requirement, and an attachment designation area 203 for designating an attached file. Then, a text area 204 for inputting the mail text is displayed.
The user can use the keys of the operation unit 140 to select an area to be worked with the up and down keys and press the enter key to input to the selected area. In a state where input is possible, the user can return to a state in which an area can be selected by pressing a clear key or the like.

  The transmission destination designation area 201 is an area for inputting information for designating a transmission destination to which the created mail is transmitted. The user may directly input the email address of the destination in the area, or by selecting one address book from among a plurality of address books stored in the mobile communication terminal 100, the destination May be input. Since an e-mail address as a transmission destination is registered in the address book, the e-mail address is designated as the transmission destination.

  The address book indicates information of a partner with whom the user contacts by telephone or mail using the mobile communication terminal 100, and FIG. 3 shows an example thereof. As shown in FIG. 3, in the address book, at least the name of the communication partner and the mail address are stored in association with each other. In addition, personal information such as a telephone number, birthday, and address is stored. Are associated. These pieces of information can be arbitrarily input by the user, and can be stored, for example, received by infrared communication or the like from the communication partner.

  For example, the address book shown in FIG. 3 includes those of “Shiro △ ro”, “Tanaka ○ ki”, and “wife”, and their e-mail addresses are “△ro_satoh@abcd.ne.jp”, “○ ki_tanaka@efgh.co.jp "and" □ko_suzuki@ijkl.ne.jp ". Note that the name can be entered by the user, and is not the name of the person, but the content indicating the relationship with the user or how the user calls the other party, as shown in “wife” in FIG. 3, for example. A nickname may be written.

  Due to the presence of the address book, for example, even when a mail address is directly input in the destination designation area 201, if the mail address is stored in the address book, the corresponding name is stored in the destination designation area 201. Is displayed. Specifically, when an e-mail address is directly input to the destination designation area 201, the mobile communication terminal 100 searches the address book for an e-mail address that matches the e-mail address. Display the name corresponding to the email address. Further, when the mail is actually transmitted, the address book exists, so that the mail is transmitted to the mail address associated with the name in the address book.

Returning to FIG. 2, the subject area 202 is an area for inputting the subject and title of the mail.
The attachment designation area 203 is an area for designating a file to be attached when attaching a file stored in the mobile communication terminal such as an image file, a moving image file, a music file, or a document file to an email. On the mail creation screen, when the cursor is placed on the attachment designation area 203 and the enter key is pressed, a menu is displayed. The user selects a folder containing the desired file from the menu, and selects the desired file in the menu. The attachment is specified by selecting it.

A text area 204 is an area for inputting the text of the mail.
<Operation>
Next, the operation of the mobile communication terminal 100 for realizing the display of received mail during mail creation will be described using the flowchart shown in FIG.
First, when the operation unit 140 of the mobile communication terminal 100 receives a mailer activation instruction from the user, the control unit 160 activates the mailer. After that, a mail creation instruction is accepted and a mail creation screen is activated (step S601).

  The user operates the operation unit 140 to select the transmission destination designation area 201 and inputs the transmission destination there (step S602). The input may be direct input of an e-mail address, input in a format for selecting an address book of a person designated as a destination from the address book, or an e-mail destination by a telephone number. In the case of a service that can be specified, a telephone number may be input.

Thereafter, the user operates the operation unit 140 to select the text area 204 and input the mail text (step S603).
The control unit 160 always accepts reception of mail, and the control unit 160 determines whether or not the received mail has been transmitted from the communication unit 110 (step S604).
If no mail has been received (NO in step S604), the user continues to input the mail text as it is.

The control unit 160 monitors whether there is an email transmission input or email storage input from the user based on whether a signal related to email transmission input or email storage input has been transmitted from the operation unit 140. If there is no input (step S605), the process returns to step S603.
If there is a mail transmission input or a mail storage input (YES in step S605), a process of transmitting a mail or storing the mail being created in the storage unit 150 is executed according to the input content. (Step S606), the process ends.

On the other hand, if a mail is received during mail creation (YES in step S604), the control unit 160 saves the received mail in the storage unit 150 and indicates that the mail is received in the display unit 120, for example, a pop-up message. Is displayed, for example (step S607).
Further, the determination unit 161 extracts the mail address of the transmission source from the received mail header, and determines whether or not it matches the mail address of the transmission destination of the mail being created (step S608). When a name is input as the transmission destination, a corresponding mail address is acquired from the address book that matches the name, and determination is made.

If the determination unit 161 determines that they do not match (NO in step S608), the process proceeds to step S605.
If the determination unit 161 determines that they match (YES in step S608), the mail body area 204 has already been divided and displayed, that is, the mail that is being created and the newly received mail while the mail is being created It is determined whether or not the text of the previously received mail is displayed together (step S609).

  If the split display has not been executed yet (NO in step S609), the control unit 160 divides the text area 204 into a text display area 502 and a received mail display area 503, and displays the text display area 502 in the text display area 502. The text of the mail being created is displayed in the received mail display area 503 (step S610). Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S605.

On the other hand, if split display has already been executed (YES in step S609), a GUI is displayed asking whether to replace the text of the received mail that is already displayed with the text of the newly received mail (step S611). ).
When the user inputs to select replacement with the newly received mail text (YES in step S611), the control unit 160 newly sets the received mail text displayed in the received mail display area 503. The display unit 120 is instructed to update the display by replacing it with the body of the received mail (step S612), and then the process proceeds to step S605.

If the user does not choose to replace the newly received mail body (NO in step S611), the process proceeds to step S605.
<Specific example>
From here, a specific example when a mail is received when the user creates a mail as shown in FIG. 2 in the mobile communication terminal 100 will be shown. Here, it is assumed that the mobile communication terminal 100 holds the address book shown in FIG.

Now, it is assumed that the mobile communication terminal 100 receives a mail having data as shown in FIG. 4 while creating the mail as shown in FIG.
In the received mail data shown in FIG. 4, the mail address of the sender is “Δro_satoh@abcd.ne.jp” as shown in the mail address field 411 of the header information, and the subject is as shown in the subject field 412. “Scheduled”. Also, as shown in the text information, the content of the text of the received e-mail is “Sorry, because there is an urgent errand tomorrow, so can I have another day?”

As can be seen from the address book example shown in FIG. 3, it can be seen that the received mail shown in FIG. 4 is the mail from the party scheduled as the transmission destination of the mail being created shown in FIG. .
At this time, as shown in FIG. 5A, the mobile communication terminal 100 displays pop-up information indicating that a mail has been received from “Sato Airo”. In the pop-up message 501 shown in FIG. 5 (a), “There is a mail from Mr. Hiroo Sato”. In the pop-up message, the name is displayed instead of the mail address of the sender of the received mail. This is obtained by displaying the name corresponding to the received mail address from the address book shown in FIG. doing.

  In addition, the mobile communication terminal 100 receives a mail during creation and the sender address of the received mail matches with the destination of the mail being created as shown in FIG. As described above, the text area 204 is divided, and the text being created is displayed in the text display area 502, and the text of the received mail is displayed in the received mail display area 503. If the entire mail text cannot be displayed in the display area, only that which can be displayed in the display area is displayed. In the text area 204, the text display area 502, and the received mail display area 503, the number of characters that can be displayed is determined in advance, and the amount that can be displayed is determined by the number of characters. When it is desired to check a portion that is not displayed, in the present invention, the user places the cursor on the received mail display area 503 as in the case where the contents of the received mail that have not been displayed can be confirmed. Confirm by scrolling down the document with the up and down keys after pressing the enter key.

As described above, when a mail is received from a partner who is scheduled as a transmission destination during creation of the mail, the mobile communication terminal 100 automatically displays the text of the received mail together with the mail creation screen.
Note that the user who has confirmed the content of the text of the received mail changes, for example, the text of the mail being created to a content such as “Well, let's do it next weekend?”.

As described above, when the mobile communication terminal according to Embodiment 1 receives a mail from a partner designated as a transmission destination during creation of a mail, the mobile communication terminal displays an area for displaying the text of the mail being created. Further, by displaying the received mail, the user can be notified of the content of the received mail. As a result, the user can change the content of the body of the mail being created, so that it is possible to avoid the trouble of sending the mail twice that may occur if the content of the received mail is not confirmed. . Further, the content of the mail being created does not necessarily change according to the received mail, and the change is likely to occur under certain conditions such as when the transmission destination and the transmission source match. Therefore, by setting the conditions as described above, the mobile communication terminal can select received mails to be displayed appropriately, and can easily check the received mails even while the mails are being created.
<Embodiment 2>
In Embodiment 1 above, if the email address specified as the destination matches the email address of the email source received during email creation, the email received along with the email screen being created is displayed. Disclosed that. In the second embodiment, a description will be given of an embodiment in which conditions that are criteria for determining whether or not to display a received mail are different. Hereinafter, differences from the first embodiment will be mainly described.
<Configuration>
FIG. 7 is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration of mobile communication terminal 200 according to Embodiment 2. As shown in FIG. 7, mobile communication terminal 200 includes storage unit 250 instead of storage unit 150 and control unit 260 instead of control unit 160, unlike mobile communication terminal 100 of the first embodiment.

The storage unit 250 further holds group information 251 in addition to the functions of the storage unit 150 in the first embodiment.
The group information 251 is information in which a plurality of mail addresses are associated with a group, and defines which mail address belongs to which group. The group is defined by the user. For example, there are groups such as family members, friends, business associates, and circle friends.

The control unit 260 executes substantially the same processing as the control unit 160 in the first embodiment, but has a function of executing processing different from that in the first embodiment corresponding to the configuration of the storage unit 250.
The determination unit 261 performs the processing, and when a mail is received during the creation of the mail, the transmission destination of the created mail and the transmission source address of the received mail are one of the group information 251. It is determined whether it is associated with one group.

Then, when the determination unit 261 makes a positive determination, the control unit 260 displays both the mail text being created and the text of the received mail in the text area 204.
<Data>
The group information 251 will be described in detail. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a data configuration example of the group information 251. The group information 251 is information set by a user who holds the mobile communication terminal 200, and is generated by inputting a relationship name and a mail address belonging to the name.

As shown in FIG. 8, the group information 251 is information in which a group number 801, a relationship 802, and a member mail address 803 are associated with each other.
The group number 801 is a number for the mobile communication terminal 200 to distinguish and manage each group.
The relationship 802 is information indicating what name the group is, that is, group identification information, and is set by the user.

The member email address 803 is information on the email address belonging to each group.
By referring to the group information 251, the determination unit 261 can determine whether the transmission destination of the mail being created and the mail address of the transmission source of the received mail belong to the same group.
<Operation>
The operation of the mobile communication terminal 200 when a mail is received during mail creation will be described with reference to FIG.

Since this flowchart is substantially the same as the operation shown in FIG. 6 of the mobile communication terminal 100 according to the first embodiment, the operation different from the first embodiment will be described here. Since the operation in step S1108 is different from the first embodiment in the flowchart in FIG. 11, the operation in step S1108 will be described.
When a mail is received during the creation of the mail (YES in step S604), it is notified that the mail has been received (step S607), and the determination unit 261 refers to the destination area 201 of the mail that is being created. The mail address of the transmission destination is acquired, and the mail address of the transmission source is acquired from the header of the received mail. Then, it is determined whether or not both addresses belong to one group defined in the group information 251, that is, whether or not they are associated with the same group number relationship 802 (step S 1108). If the determination unit 261 makes an affirmative determination (YES in step S1108), the process proceeds to step S609, and if a negative determination is made (NO in step S1108), the process proceeds to step S605.

The difference between the mobile communication terminal 200 and the operation shown in FIG. 6 in the mobile communication terminal 100 is as described above.
<Specific example>
It is assumed that the user is creating a mail as shown in FIG. 2 using the mobile communication terminal 200. Further, it is assumed that the mobile communication terminal 200 holds the address book shown in FIG.

  Then, it is assumed that a mail having data as shown in FIG. 9 is received during the creation of the mail. In the received mail data shown in FIG. 9, the mail address of the transmission source is “○ki_tanaka@efgh.co.jp” as shown in the mail address field 911 of the header information, and the subject is as shown in the subject field 912. “Tomorrow”. Also, as shown in the text information, the content of the text of the received mail is "Would you like to go to play tomorrow?"

The mail address “○ki_tanaka@efgh.co.jp” registered in the mail address column 911 shown in FIG. 9 belongs to the group number “02” of the group information 251 shown in FIG.
On the other hand, the destination of the e-mail being created shown in FIG. 2 is “Sato △ Buro”, and its e-mail address is “△ro_satoh@abcd.ne.jp” as can be seen from the address book of FIG. It has become. The mail address belongs to the group number “02” of the group information 251 shown in FIG.

That is, the transmission destination of the mail being created and the transmission source of the received mail belong to the same group “02”.
As described above, when the transmission destination and the transmission source belong to the same group, the mobile communication terminal 200 first indicates that a mail has been received in a pop-up message 1001 as shown in FIG. Notify as shown. Then, as shown in FIG. 10B, since the transmission destination matches the transmission source, the text of the received mail is displayed together with the mail being created.

In addition, the user who confirmed the content of the text of the received email in this way, for example, the text of the mail that is being created, “You were planning to go tomorrow, but Mr. Tanaka will go to play together. “Would you like to go with everyone?” And so on.
As described above, the mobile communication terminal 200, when creating a mail, if the transmission destination of the mail being created and the transmission source of the received mail belong to the same group, Can be displayed simultaneously. If they belong to the same group, there is a high possibility that the other party and the other party are acquainted with each other. In such a case, the user checks the contents of the received mail. You can change the contents of the email you are creating.

<Embodiment 3>
In the second embodiment, the mail screen being created when the mail address specified as the destination and the mail address of the mail received during the mail creation belong to the same group Disclosed the display of emails received with them. In the third embodiment, a description will be given of a mode in which conditions that are criteria for determining whether or not to display a received mail are different. Hereinafter, differences from the first embodiment will be mainly described.
<Configuration>
FIG. 12 is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration of mobile communication terminal 300 according to the second embodiment. As shown in FIG. 7, mobile communication terminal 300 includes storage unit 350 instead of storage unit 150 and control unit 360 instead of control unit 160, unlike mobile communication terminal 100 of the first embodiment.

The storage unit 350 further holds a priority display list 351 in addition to the functions of the storage unit 150 in the first embodiment.
The priority display list 351 is a list that defines a mail address of a transmission source for a received mail that should be displayed with priority during mail creation. Here, priority means a person who should be given priority to the user, and the priority display list 351 is generated by an input operation of the user. The user can arbitrarily add or delete a mail address to the list by operating the operation unit 140.

The control unit 360 executes substantially the same processing as that of the control unit 160 in the first embodiment, but also executes processing different from that of the embodiment corresponding to the configuration of the storage unit 250.
Whether or not the sender address of the received mail matches one of the mail addresses in the priority display list 351 when the mail is received while the mail is being created is determined by the determination unit 361. Determine.

Then, when the determination unit 361 makes a positive determination, the control unit 360 displays both the mail text being created and the text of the received mail in the text area 204.
<Data>
FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the priority display list 351.
As illustrated in FIG. 13, the priority display list 351 is information indicating a mail address for specifying a mail that preferentially displays the text of the received mail. As shown in FIG. 13, “□ko_suzuki@ijkl.ne.jp” and “☆ya_suzuki@ijkl.ne.jp” belong to the priority display list 351.
<Operation>
The operation of the mobile communication terminal 300 when executing the above-described display content update will be described with reference to FIG.

Since this flowchart is substantially the same as the operation shown in FIG. 6 of the mobile communication terminal 100 according to the first embodiment, the operation different from the first embodiment will be described here. Since the operation in step S1608 is different from the first embodiment in the flowchart in FIG. 16, the operation in step S1608 will be described.
When a mail is received during creation of the mail (YES in step S604), it is notified that the mail has been received (step S607), and the determination unit 361 obtains the mail address of the transmission source from the header of the received mail. To do. Then, it is determined whether or not the mail address belongs to the priority display list 351 (step S1608). If the determination unit 361 makes a positive determination (YES in step S1608), the process proceeds to step S609. If the determination unit 361 makes a negative determination (NO in step S1608), the process proceeds to step S605.

The difference between the mobile communication terminal 300 and the operation shown in FIG. 6 in the mobile communication terminal 100 is as described above.
<Specific example>
First, it is assumed that the user uses the mobile communication terminal 300 to create a mail as shown in FIG. Further, it is assumed that the mobile communication terminal 300 holds the address book shown in FIG.

  Assume that a mail having data as shown in FIG. 14 is received during the creation of the mail. In the received mail data shown in FIG. 14, as shown in the header information mail address field 1411, the sender mail address is “□ko_suzuki@ijkl.ne.jp”, and as shown in the subject field 1412, the subject is “Tomorrow”. Also, as shown in the text information, the content of the text of the received e-mail is "I want to take my child to the hospital tomorrow, can you please?"

The mail address “□ko_suzuki@ijkl.ne.jp” registered in the mail address column 1411 shown in FIG. 14 belongs to the priority display list 351 shown in FIG.
As described above, when the sender of the mail received during the creation of the mail belongs to the priority display list 351, the mobile communication terminal 300 first receives the mail as shown in FIG. As shown in the pop-up message 1501. Then, as shown in FIG. 15B, since the transmission destination matches the transmission source, the text of the received mail is displayed together with the mail being created.

In addition, the user who confirmed the content of the text of the received email in this way, for example, the text of the email being created, “You promised to go play tomorrow, but you will take your child to the hospital. So, let me change it later. "
As described above, the mobile communication terminal 300, when creating a mail, regardless of the destination of the mail that is being created, if the sender of the received mail is a specific mail address, Can be displayed simultaneously. Depending on the content of the mail from the other party to be prioritized in the user's own behavioral standard, the user often gives priority over the schedule with the other party of the mail. For this reason, the content of the text of the mail created for the destination party may also change. It can be said that the present invention is effective in such a situation.

With the configuration as described above, the mobile communication terminal is in the process of creating an email using the mobile communication terminal, that is, when displaying information related to the email being created by the mobile communication terminal, When a new mail is received, the contents of the mail can be displayed according to a predetermined condition without forcing the user to perform a special operation.
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In the above embodiment, the method of implementing the present invention has been described, but it is needless to say that the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to this. Hereinafter, various modified examples included in the present invention other than the above-described embodiment will be described.
(1) The mobile communication terminal shown in the above embodiment is realized as, for example, a mobile phone, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistants), or the like.
(2) In the above embodiment, the determination of the incoming mail in step S604 is performed after step S603. However, if the determination is after step S601, the determination is made between step S601 and step S602, or in step S602. And step S603.

In other words, it is sufficient to determine whether to display the received mail during mail creation when at least a part of the mail creation screen is displayed. For example, when the mail text is not entered or the subject is It may be performed in a state of no input or a state in which the transmission destination is not input.
(3) In the above embodiment, in step S611, a GUI asking whether or not to replace the body of the newly received mail is displayed. However, in such a situation, the newly received mail is displayed in advance. It may be determined whether or not to be replaced with the body text, and it is determined whether to update the display without displaying the GUI according to the setting, and the display content may be updated as necessary.
(4) Display of received mail during mail creation shown in the first to third embodiments is not limited to any one of the methods shown in the first to third embodiments in one mobile communication terminal. One method may be implemented, or all the methods may be implemented.
(5) Although the above embodiment has been described up to the display of the received mail, an example of the operation after the display will be described here.

The received mail may be displayed only for a predetermined time, for example, 1 minute. That is, from the time when the received mail is displayed, the control unit counts one minute with the built-in clock, and instructs the display unit 120 to stop displaying the received mail when one minute has passed. It is good.
The mobile communication terminal may stop displaying the received mail in response to an input from the user after the received mail is displayed. For example, an option “cancel received mail display” is prepared in the menu, and when the option is selected, the displayed received mail may be stopped. Further, an option “display received mail” may be prepared in the menu so that the received mail can be displayed again after the received mail is stopped.

In addition, a function of switching between display and non-display may be assigned to a specific button of the mobile communication terminal so that the received mail can be displayed or hidden.
(6) In the above embodiment, the text area 204 is divided into the text display area 502 and the received mail display area 503 to display the text of the mail being created and the text of the received mail. The area is not divided equally as shown in FIG. 5, for example, but may be set to other ratios. For example, the text display area 502 is 2/3 of the text area 204, and the received mail display area 503 is The display form of the remaining 1/3 may be taken.
(8) The operation related to the display of the received mail, the received mail display processing, etc. (see FIGS. 6, 11, 16 and the like) shown in the above embodiment are connected to a processor such as a portable communication terminal and the processor. A control program composed of program codes to be executed by various circuits can be recorded on a recording medium, or can be distributed and distributed via various communication paths. Such recording media include IC cards, hard disks, optical disks, flexible disks, ROMs, and the like. The distributed and distributed control program is used by being stored in a memory or the like that can be read by the processor, and the processor executes the control program, thereby realizing various functions as shown in the embodiment. Will come to be.

  The mobile communication terminal according to the present invention can be used in a mobile phone or the like as a terminal that can reduce a user's trouble in displaying a mail received during mail creation.

100, 200, 300 Mobile communication terminal 110 Communication unit 111 Antenna 120 Display unit 130 Audio processing unit 131 Microphone 132 Speaker 140 Operation unit 150, 250, 350 Storage unit 160, 260, 360 Control unit 161, 261, 361 Determination unit 204 Full Text Area 501, 1001, 1501 Pop-up message 502 Text display area 503 Received mail display area

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A display unit;
Accepting means for accepting input relating to the first mail;
Display control means for causing the display unit to display at least a part of the first mail according to the input received by the receiving means;
A receiving means for receiving mail;
Setting means for specifying and setting a specific email address,
In the case where the display unit displays at least a part of the first mail, when the second mail is received by the receiving means, the transmission source address of the second mail is set by the setting means. Determination means for determining whether or not the specified email address matches ,
The display control means further displays at least a part of the second mail together with at least a part of the first mail on the display unit when the determination means makes a positive determination. Mobile communication terminal. The display control unit divides an area where the text of the first mail is displayed, displays the text of the first mail in one of the areas obtained by the division, and displays the second mail in the other. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the body of the e-mail is displayed. A received mail display method in a mobile communication terminal comprising a display unit,
An accepting step for accepting an input relating to the first mail;
A display step of causing the display unit to display at least a part of the first mail according to the input received in the reception step;
A receiving step for receiving mail;
Setup steps for specifying and setting a specific email address,
When the display unit displays at least a part of the first mail, when the second mail is received in the receiving step, the transmission source address of the second mail is set in the setting step. A determination step of determining whether or not the specified email address matches ,
A display control step of displaying at least a part of the second mail together with at least a part of the first mail on the display unit when a positive determination is made in the determination step. Mail display method. A received mail display program showing a process for displaying a received mail on a computer of a mobile communication terminal including a display unit,
The process is
An accepting step for accepting an input relating to the first mail;
A display step of causing the display unit to display at least a part of the first mail according to the input received in the reception step;
A receiving step for receiving mail;
Setup steps for specifying and setting a specific email address,
When the display unit displays at least a part of the first mail, when the second mail is received in the receiving step, the transmission source address of the second mail is set in the setting step. A determination step of determining whether or not the specified email address matches ,
A display control step of displaying at least a part of the second mail together with at least a part of the first mail on the display unit when a positive determination is made in the determination step. Mail display program.

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