CN110855547A

CN110855547A - Mail merging method and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN110855547A
Application number: CN201910945864.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈晓东
Original assignee: Huawei Device Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Device Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-09-30
Filing date: 2019-09-30
Publication date: 2020-02-28
Anticipated expiration: 2039-09-30
Also published as: WO2021063105A1; CN110855547B

Abstract

In the method, a first interface comprising an application window of a first application is displayed firstly, the first application is used for sending an email, and at least two emails are displayed in the window of the first application; then, receiving an input operation used by a user to trigger a merging operation on part or all of the at least two emails, merging part or all of the at least two emails in response to the input operation to obtain a merged email, displaying a second interface including the merged email, and sending the merged email in response to the sending operation after receiving the sending operation of the user. The user can combine a plurality of emails and then send the combined emails, so that the user can forward or reply the emails in batches, and the operation of the user is facilitated.

Description

Mail merging method and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of terminal technologies, and in particular, to a mail merging method and an electronic device.

Background

With the progress of terminal technology, various functions of terminal equipment are continuously perfected. Various application programs can be installed in the terminal equipment so as to meet the use requirements of users. For example, a mail application may be installed in the terminal device, and communication with other users may be performed through the mail application.

At present, when a user communicates with another user through a mail application in a terminal device, only a single e-mail can be processed, for example, a certain e-mail is forwarded to another user, or a certain e-mail is replied, and the like, batch operation cannot be simultaneously performed on multiple e-mails, and when multiple e-mails need to be forwarded to another user, one forwarding operation needs to be performed on each e-mail, which is complex to operate.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a mail merging method and electronic equipment, which are used for providing a scheme capable of simultaneously carrying out batch operation on a plurality of emails and are convenient for a user to operate.

In a first aspect, a method for merging emails is provided, in which a first interface including an application window of a first application is first displayed, the first application is used for sending emails, and at least two emails are displayed in the window of the first application; then, receiving an input operation used by a user to trigger a merging operation on part or all of the at least two emails, merging part or all of the at least two emails in response to the input operation to obtain a merged email, displaying a second interface including the merged email, and sending the merged email in response to the sending operation after receiving the sending operation of the user.

In the technical scheme, a user can combine a plurality of emails and then send the combined emails, so that the user can carry out batch forwarding or batch reply on the emails, and the operation of the user is facilitated.

In one possible design, the at least two emails are searched based on keywords input by the user.

In the technical scheme, when a user performs batch operation on multiple e-mails, the user can search the e-mails which are required to be operated first, and then perform batch reply or batch forwarding on the multiple e-mails displayed by the search result, so that the processing efficiency can be improved.

In one possible design, combining some or all of the at least two emails may include, but is not limited to, the following two ways:

the first mode is as follows: acquiring characteristic information in each electronic mail in the partial or all electronic mails, wherein the characteristic information at least comprises recipient information, carbon copy information, subject information and text information; and then combining the information with the same type of characteristic information in the partial or all e-mails to obtain the combined e-mail.

The second mode is as follows: before merging, firstly displaying a third interface of the interface for displaying the merging mode of the e-mails, then receiving the selection operation of a user, merging part or all of the at least two e-mails according to the merging mode selected by the selection operation, and obtaining the merged e-mail.

In the technical scheme, the electronic equipment can automatically combine the e-mails and can also combine the e-mails according to the combination mode selected by the user, so that the flexibility of the electronic equipment can be improved, and the user experience is improved.

In a possible design, information of the same type of the characteristic information in the partial or all electronic mails may be merged to obtain the merged characteristic information, then, the same type of characteristic information is subjected to de-duplication processing to obtain the de-duplicated characteristic information, and finally, the merged electronic mail is generated according to the de-duplicated characteristic information.

In the technical scheme, the characteristic information in the e-mail is subjected to the de-duplication processing, so that the same information can be prevented from being processed for multiple times, and the processing efficiency of the electronic equipment is improved. And the combined e-mail can be more concise, and the user can conveniently check the combined e-mail.

In a possible design, the merging manner includes a manner of merging contents of each of part of or all of the at least two emails, or a manner of merging a part of or all of the at least two emails in the form of an attachment.

In the technical scheme, multiple emails can be directly combined, and multiple emails can also be combined in an attachment form, so that the flexibility of the electronic equipment can be increased, and a user can select the emails according to use requirements, so that the user experience is improved.

In one possible design, sending the merged email may include, but is not limited to, the following two ways:

the first transmission mode: and acquiring the recipient information and the transcriber information in the combined electronic mail, and sending the combined electronic mail according to the recipient information and the transcriber information. That is, the merged email is sent to the merged recipient and the carbon copy.

The second transmission method: and displaying a fourth interface of a group created according to the recipient information and the carbon copy information in the combined electronic mail, and then sending the combined electronic mail to the group. That is, the merged email is sent as a message to a group created from the merged recipients and carbon copy.

In the technical scheme, the combined e-mail can be sent to the combined receiver and the transcriber in various ways, so that the flexibility of the electronic equipment can be improved, and the user experience is improved.

In a second aspect, an electronic device is also provided, which includes a display screen; one or more processors; a memory; one or more application programs; one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory, the one or more programs comprising instructions which, when executed by the electronic device, cause the electronic device to perform the method of the first aspect or any one of the possible designs of the first aspect.

In a third aspect, there is also provided an electronic device comprising means for performing the method of the first aspect or any one of the possible designs of the first aspect; these modules/units may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software.

In a fourth aspect, there is also provided a computer readable storage medium comprising a program which, when run on an electronic device, causes the electronic device to perform the first aspect or any one of the possible designs of the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, there is also provided a method comprising a program product which, when run on an electronic device, causes the electronic device to perform the first aspect or any one of the possible designs of the first aspect described above.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, where the chip is coupled to a memory in an electronic device, and is configured to call a computer program stored in the memory and execute the technical solution of the first aspect of the embodiment of the present application and any one of possible designs of the first aspect of the embodiment of the present application; "coupled" in the context of this application means that two elements are joined to each other either directly or indirectly.

In a seventh aspect, there is also provided a graphical user interface for a user on an electronic device, the electronic device having a display screen, a camera, a memory, and one or more processors configured to execute one or more computer programs stored in the memory, the graphical user interface comprising a graphical user interface displayed when the electronic device performs the method of the first aspect or any one of the possible designs of the first aspect.

It should be noted that, the xth operation referred to in this application may be one operation or a combination of a plurality of operations, and the xth operation may include a first operation, a second operation, and the like.

The X-th area referred to in the present application may be one area or a set of a plurality of areas, and the X-th area includes a first area, a second area, and the like.

Advantageous effects of the second to seventh aspects and implementations thereof described above reference may be made to the description of the method of the first aspect and advantageous effects of implementations thereof.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a diagram of a graphical user interface in the prior art when operating an email application;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an example of a method for mail merge according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 to 8 are schematic diagrams of user graphical interfaces of the electronic device 100 according to the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of another example of a method for mail merge according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 to 12 are schematic diagrams of user graphical interfaces of an electronic device 100 according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. In the description of the embodiments of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more, and in view of this, the "plurality" may also be understood as "at least two" in the embodiments of the present application. "at least one" is to be understood as meaning one or more, for example one, two or more. For example, including at least one means including one, two, or more, and does not limit which ones are included, for example, including at least one of A, B and C, then including may be A, B, C, A and B, A and C, B and C, or a and B and C. "and/or" describes the association relationship of the associated objects, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" generally indicates that the preceding and following related objects are in an "or" relationship, unless otherwise specified. Unless stated to the contrary, the embodiments of the present application refer to the ordinal numbers "first", "second", etc., for distinguishing between a plurality of objects, and do not limit the sequence, timing, priority, or importance of the plurality of objects.

Exemplarily, as shown in fig. 1, the following describes an embodiment specifically by taking an electronic device 100 as an example.

The electronic device 100 may include a processor 110, an external memory interface 120, an internal memory 121, a USB interface 130, a charging management module 140, a power management module 141, a battery 142, an antenna 1, an antenna 2, a mobile communication module 151, a wireless communication module 152, an audio module 170, a speaker 170A, a receiver 170B, a microphone 170C, an earphone interface 170D, a sensor module 180, a button 190, a motor 191, an indicator 192, a camera 193, a display 194, a SIM card interface 195, and the like. The sensor module 180 may include a pressure sensor 180A, a gyroscope sensor 180B, an air pressure sensor 180C, a magnetic sensor 180D, an acceleration sensor 180E, a distance sensor 180F, a proximity light sensor 180G, a fingerprint sensor 180H, a temperature sensor 180J, a touch sensor 180K, an ambient light sensor 180L, a bone conduction sensor 180M, and the like.

Processor 110 may include one or more processing units, such as: the processor 110 may include an Application Processor (AP), a modem processor, a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), an Image Signal Processor (ISP), a controller, a memory, a video codec, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), a baseband processor, and/or a Neural-Network Processing Unit (NPU), etc. The different processing units may be separate devices or may be integrated into one or more processors.

The controller may be, among other things, a neural center and a command center of the electronic device 100. The controller can generate an operation control signal according to the instruction operation code and the timing signal to complete the control of instruction fetching and instruction execution.

A memory may also be provided in processor 110 for storing instructions and data. In some embodiments, the memory in the processor 110 is a cache memory. The memory may hold instructions or data that have just been used or recycled by the processor 110. If the processor 110 needs to reuse the instruction or data, it can be called directly from the memory. Avoiding repeated accesses reduces the latency of the processor 110, thereby increasing the efficiency of the system.

The processor 110 may operate the mail merging method provided in the embodiment of the present application, and may implement batch processing on multiple mails at the same time. When the processor 110 integrates different devices, such as a CPU and a GPU, the CPU and the GPU may cooperate to execute the mail merging method provided by the embodiment of the present application, for example, part of algorithms in the response method of the touch screen is executed by the CPU, and another part of algorithms is executed by the GPU, so as to obtain faster processing efficiency.

The display screen 194 is used to display images, video, and the like. The display screen 194 includes a display panel. The display panel may be a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode, AMOLED), a flexible light-emitting diode (FLED), a miniature, a Micro-oeld, a quantum dot light-emitting diode (QLED), or the like. In some embodiments, the electronic device 100 may include 1 or N display screens 194, with N being a positive integer greater than 1.

In this embodiment, the display screen 194 may be an integrated flexible display screen, or may be a spliced display screen formed by two rigid screens and a flexible screen located between the two rigid screens. After the processor 110 runs the mail merging method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the display screen 194 may display a display interface of the merged multiple mails.

The cameras 193 (front camera or rear camera, or one camera may be both front camera and rear camera) are used to capture still images or video. In general, the camera 193 may include a photosensitive element such as a lens group including a plurality of lenses (convex lenses or concave lenses) for collecting an optical signal reflected by an object to be photographed and transferring the collected optical signal to an image sensor, and an image sensor. And the image sensor generates an original image of the object to be shot according to the optical signal.

The internal memory 121 may be used to store computer-executable program code, which includes instructions. The processor 110 executes various functional applications of the electronic device 100 and data processing by executing instructions stored in the internal memory 121. The internal memory 121 may include a program storage area and a data storage area. Wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, codes of application programs (such as a camera application, a WeChat application, etc.), and the like. The storage data area may store data created during use of the electronic device 100 (e.g., images, videos, etc. captured by a camera application), and the like.

The internal memory 121 may also store codes of algorithms related to the mail merging method provided in the embodiment of the present application. When the code of the algorithm stored in the internal memory 121 is run by the processor 110, batch processing of multiple mail pieces can be realized.

In addition, the internal memory 121 may include a high-speed random access memory, and may further include a nonvolatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, a flash memory device, a universal flash memory (UFS), and the like.

Of course, the codes of the algorithms provided in the embodiments of the present application may also be stored in the external memory. In this case, the processor 110 may execute the code of the algorithm stored in the external memory through the external memory interface 120 to implement batch processing of the multiple mails.

The function of the sensor module 180 is described below.

The gyro sensor 180A may be used to determine the motion attitude of the electronic device 100. In some embodiments, the angular velocity of electronic device 100 about three axes (i.e., the x, y, and z axes) may be determined by gyroscope sensor 180A. That is, the gyro sensor 180A may be used to detect the current motion state of the electronic device 100, such as shaking or standing still.

The acceleration sensor 180B may detect the magnitude of acceleration of the electronic device 100 in various directions (typically three axes). That is, the gyro sensor 180A may be used to detect the current motion state of the electronic device 100, such as shaking or standing still.

The proximity light sensor 180G may include, for example, a Light Emitting Diode (LED) and a light detector, such as a photodiode. The light emitting diode may be an infrared light emitting diode. The mobile phone emits infrared light outwards through the light emitting diode. The handset uses a photodiode to detect infrared reflected light from nearby objects. When sufficient reflected light is detected, it can be determined that there is an object near the handset. When insufficient reflected light is detected, the handset can determine that there are no objects near the handset.

The gyro sensor 180A (or the acceleration sensor 180B) may transmit the detected motion state information (such as an angular velocity) to the processor 110. The processor 110 determines whether the electronic device 100 is currently in the handheld state or the tripod state (for example, when the angular velocity is not 0, the electronic device is in the handheld state) based on the motion state information.

The fingerprint sensor 180H is used to collect a fingerprint. The electronic device 100 can utilize the collected fingerprint characteristics to unlock the fingerprint, access the application lock, photograph the fingerprint, answer an incoming call with the fingerprint, and so on.

The touch sensor 180K is also referred to as a "touch panel". The touch sensor 180K may be disposed on the display screen 194, and the touch sensor 180K and the display screen 194 form a touch screen, which is also called a "touch screen". The touch sensor 180K is used to detect a touch operation applied thereto or nearby. The touch sensor can communicate the detected touch operation to the application processor to determine a touch event type. Visual output related to touch operations may be provided through the display screen 194. In other embodiments, the touch sensor 180K may be disposed on a surface of the electronic device 100, different from the position of the display screen 194.

Illustratively, the display screen 194 of the electronic device 100 displays a main interface including icons for a plurality of applications (e.g., mail application, WeChat application, etc.). The user clicks an icon of the mail application in the main interface through the touch sensor 180K to trigger the processor 110 to start the mail application, and the display screen 194 displays an interface of the mail application, such as a plurality of received mails. In the embodiment of the present application, when the display screen 194 displays the received multiple emails, the processor 110 performs batch processing on the multiple emails through the touch operation received by the touch sensor 180K.

The wireless communication function of the electronic device 100 may be implemented by the antenna 1, the antenna 2, the mobile communication module 151, the wireless communication module 152, the modem processor, the baseband processor, and the like.

The

antennas

1 and 2 are used for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic wave signals. Each antenna in the electronic device 100 may be used to cover a single or multiple communication bands. Different antennas can also be multiplexed to improve the utilization of the antennas. For example: the antenna 1 may be multiplexed as a diversity antenna of a wireless local area network. In other embodiments, the antenna may be used in conjunction with a tuning switch.

The mobile communication module 151 may provide a solution including 2G/3G/4G/5G wireless communication applied to the electronic device 100. The mobile communication module 151 may include at least one filter, a switch, a power amplifier, a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), and the like. The mobile communication module 151 may receive electromagnetic waves from the antenna 1, filter, amplify, etc. the received electromagnetic waves, and transmit the electromagnetic waves to the modem processor for demodulation. The mobile communication module 151 may also amplify the signal modulated by the modem processor, and convert the signal into electromagnetic wave through the antenna 1 to radiate the electromagnetic wave. In some embodiments, at least some of the functional modules of the mobile communication module 151 may be provided in the processor 110. In some embodiments, at least some of the functional modules of the mobile communication module 151 may be disposed in the same device as at least some of the modules of the processor 110.

The modem processor may include a modulator and a demodulator. The modulator is used for modulating a low-frequency baseband signal to be transmitted into a medium-high frequency signal. The demodulator is used for demodulating the received electromagnetic wave signal into a low-frequency baseband signal. The demodulator then passes the demodulated low frequency baseband signal to a baseband processor for processing. The low frequency baseband signal is processed by the baseband processor and then transferred to the application processor. The application processor outputs a sound signal through an audio device (not limited to the speaker 170A, the receiver 170B, etc.) or displays an image or video through the display screen 194. In some embodiments, the modem processor may be a stand-alone device. In other embodiments, the modem processor may be provided in the same device as the mobile communication module 151 or other functional modules, independent of the processor 110.

The wireless communication module 152 may provide a solution for wireless communication applied to the electronic device 100, including Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) (e.g., wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) networks), bluetooth (bluetooth, BT), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Frequency Modulation (FM), Near Field Communication (NFC), Infrared (IR), and the like. The wireless communication module 152 may be one or more devices integrating at least one communication processing module. The wireless communication module 152 receives electromagnetic waves via the antenna 2, performs frequency modulation and filtering processing on electromagnetic wave signals, and transmits the processed signals to the processor 110. The wireless communication module 152 may also receive a signal to be transmitted from the processor 110, frequency-modulate it, amplify it, and convert it into electromagnetic waves via the antenna 2 to radiate it.

In addition, the electronic device 100 may implement an audio function through the audio module 170, the speaker 170A, the receiver 170B, the microphone 170C, the earphone interface 170D, and the application processor. Such as music playing, recording, etc. The electronic device 100 may receive key 190 inputs, generating key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the electronic device 100. Electronic device 100 may generate a vibration alert (e.g., an incoming call vibration alert) using motor 191. The indicator 192 in the electronic device 100 may be an indicator light, and may be used to indicate a charging status, a power change, or a message, a missed call, a notification, etc. The SIM card interface 195 in the electronic device 100 is used to connect a SIM card. The SIM card can be brought into and out of contact with the electronic apparatus 100 by being inserted into the SIM card interface 195 or being pulled out of the SIM card interface 195.

It is to be understood that the illustrated structure of the embodiment of the present application does not specifically limit the electronic device 100. In other embodiments of the present application, electronic device 100 may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, some components may be split, or a different arrangement of components. The illustrated components may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of software and hardware.

In some embodiments of the present application, the electronic device 100 shown in fig. 1 may be a portable electronic device, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a wearable device (e.g., a smart watch) with wireless communication function, and the like, that also includes other functions, such as personal digital assistant and/or music player functions. Exemplary embodiments of the portable electronic device include, but are not limited to, a mount

Or other operating system. The portable electronic device may also be other portable electronic devices such as laptop computers (laptop) with touch sensitive surfaces (e.g., touch panels), etc. It should also be understood that in some other embodiments of the present application, the electronic device 100 may not be a portable electronic device, but may be a desktop computer with a touch-sensitive surface (e.g., a touch panel). Alternatively, the electronic device may also be an electronic device without a touch panel, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

The operation of the prior art mail application is described below.

An electronic mail is a communication mode which is commonly used at present, and a user can realize the function of receiving and sending the electronic mail by installing a mail application on electronic equipment. Referring to fig. 2(a), a diagram of one example of a display interface for an inbox of a mail application. In fig. 2(a), a plurality of emails are sequentially displayed according to the time sequence of receiving the emails, each email shows a sender, a subject, a partial text and a receiving time, for example, the first email in the inbox is the latest email received, the sender is zhang, the subject is for asking to check and receive relevant information of the XX item, and the partial text is: queen worker, hello, annex is the related data of the XX project, please check and collect! On the right side of the email, the receiving time of the email is shown as 2019, 9, month 1. The user may view the email by clicking on the display area corresponding to the email. If the sensor module 180 of the electronic device 100 does not detect the click operation of the user on the email, the email may be characterized as being in an unread state by blackening the relevant display content of the email (in fig. 2(a), for example, the email is in an unread state), and after the user views the email, the blackening process on the email may be removed to characterize the email as being in a read state (for example, all other emails after the first email are in a read state in fig. 2 (a)).

When the sensor module 180 of the electronic device 100 detects a click operation of the user and the processor 110 determines that the position corresponding to the click operation is located in the display area corresponding to the email, the text of the email is displayed on the display screen 194 of the electronic device 100, as shown in fig. 2 (b). In fig. 2(b), the operation keys for the e-mail, for example, a reply key, a reply all key, and a forward key, are included below the body of the e-mail. When the sensor module 180 detects a touch operation of the user on the display screen 194 and the processor 110 determines that the touch position corresponding to the touch operation is the display area corresponding to the forwarding key, a forwarding interface for the email is displayed, as shown in fig. 2 (c). The user can realize the forwarding operation of the e-mail by filling in the receiver.

At present, the forwarding operation of the e-mail can only process a single e-mail, for example, a certain e-mail is forwarded to other people, or a certain e-mail is replied, and the batch operation cannot be simultaneously performed on multiple e-mails. For example, if multiple emails of different users for the same event are received, the user can only reply to each email separately, or when the user needs to forward multiple different emails to other users, the user needs to perform a forwarding operation on each email, which is visible and complicated.

Based on the above problem, the embodiment of the present application provides a method for email merging, as shown in fig. 3, where the method may be applied to the electronic device shown in fig. 1 or similar to the functional structure of fig. 1, that is, the method may be executed by each hardware part in the electronic device in combination with a corresponding software program, and includes the following specific steps:

and S301, displaying the first interface.

The first interface comprises at least one application window of at least one application, the at least one application comprises a first application, and the application window of the first application occupies a first display area of the first interface. That is, the display screen 194 of the electronic device 100 may simultaneously display application windows of a plurality of applications, which may be understood as split-screen display, or only one application window of one application may be displayed on the display screen 194, and if only one application window of one application is displayed, the application is the first application. For convenience of explanation, the application window of only one application is displayed on the display screen 194 in the following description.

In some embodiments, the first interface may occupy all of the display area of the display screen 194 that may be used to display the application window.

As an example, the first interface may fill the display screen 194 (i.e., fill the entire display area of the display screen), in which case the status bar (the area for displaying information such as signal strength, operator identification, battery level, etc.) and the navigation bar (the area for displaying the home key, the return key, and the multitasking key) may not be displayed on the display screen. It should be noted that only the status bar is shown in the schematic diagram shown in fig. 2, and the navigation bar is not shown. In some examples, both the status bar and the navigation bar may be hidden, or the navigation bar may not be provided. Therefore, under the condition that the status bar is hidden on the display screen, the navigation bar is not provided or the navigation bar is hidden, the first interface is displayed in the whole display area of the display screen of the electronic device, namely the first interface occupies the display area where the status bar and the navigation bar are located.

As another example, the first interface may fill all of the display area except for the status bar. That is, in the case where no navigation bar is provided on the display screen of the electronic device or the navigation bar is hidden, the first interface may be displayed in the entire display area except for the status bar, as shown in fig. 2.

Of course, the first interface may also have other display manners, for example, the display screen 194 may include some elements that cannot be covered, such as a floating ball, and the like, and these elements may be displayed in a transparent manner, which is not limited herein.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the first application may be an application capable of sending and receiving an email, for example, a mail application, or may also be a chat application with a function of sending and receiving an email, for example, software such as a nail or a welink, and is not limited herein. If the first application is a chat application with a function of sending and receiving mails, the first interface is an interface after the function of sending and receiving mails of the first application is opened through touch operation, or in the chat application with the function of sending and receiving mails, the mails can be directly forwarded to a chat window, and the first interface can also be the chat window comprising the mails. If the first application is a mail application, the first interface is a main interface of the first application. For convenience of explanation, the first application is taken as a mail application as an example hereinafter.

As an example, the first interface may be as shown in fig. 2(a), and is not described herein again.

As another example, when the mail application receives any electronic mail, the processor 110 of the electronic device 100 may parse the received electronic mail according to a storage format of the received electronic mail, for example, a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) protocol storage format, an internet electronic mail (internet email) storage format, or a nodes storage format, to obtain feature information of the electronic mail, where the feature information at least includes information such as a sender information field, a recipient information field, a subject field, a sending time, a receiving time, a body, and an attachment, and store the information in an external memory in communication with the electronic device 100 through the external memory interface 120. For example, attachments or a body with a large data amount (for example, a body with a data amount greater than or equal to 20 Kilobytes (KB)) in an email may be stored in a file form, and a storage path of each attachment and the body with the large data amount is recorded; while other information may be stored in the form of a database. In this way, the main interface displayed by the mail application can be displayed in a sorted manner according to different fields. For example, the information of the addressees is sequentially sorted and displayed according to the addressee information, and the addressee information is Zhang three, Li four, Zhao nine, Wang five and Li sir respectively, the information of the addressees is sorted according to the initial letters, the Li four, Li sir, Wang five, Zhang three and Zhao nine, so that the interface shown in fig. 4(a) is obtained, and the e-mail is displayed according to the sorting of the addressees. Alternatively, the display may also be sorted according to other information, for example, the keywords in the subject field or the initials of the keywords are sorted, for example, the keyword in the subject field sent by zhang san is "XX item", and the keyword in the subject field of the email sent by wang wu is "leave", so that the email of wang wu is displayed before the email sent by zhang san, and the display interface shown in fig. 4(b) is obtained.

For another display mode of the first interface, reference may be made to fig. 4(a) and fig. 4(b), which are not examples.

S302, receiving a first operation input by a user, wherein the first operation is a preset operation, and the preset operation is used for triggering and displaying a window for merging and forwarding the e-mail.

As an example, the preset operation may be a sliding operation in the first interface, for example, may be an operation of sliding along a lower edge of the display screen to an upper side of the display screen, as shown in fig. 5 (a). For another example, the preset operation may be a sliding operation with a certain pressure, and the like, from right to left/left to right/top to bottom/bottom to top, which are not examples herein. As another example, the preset operation may also be an operation of stopping a display area corresponding to any email without an interval or holding the display area for a preset time length, as shown in fig. 6 (a). As another example, the preset operation may also be an operation of clicking any email, as shown in fig. 7 (a).

As another example, in order to facilitate the user to find the email which is to be merged and forwarded quickly, the user may perform a search operation on the email before performing the preset operation, for example, as shown in fig. 8(a), there is a search window at the top of the first interface, the user clicks the search window, so that a search interface as shown in fig. 8(b) is displayed on the display screen 194, different types of search fields may be displayed in the search interface, for example, a search is performed according to the recipient, a search is performed according to the sender, etc., the search interface may select the subject search field by default, the user may adjust according to the use requirement, then, when the user inputs a search keyword, the electronic device searches for the email whose subject includes the keyword from the database and/or the text database, and then, the search result is displayed on the display screen 194, the display interface shown in fig. 8(c) is obtained, and then, the user may perform the preset operation on the display interface shown in fig. 8(c), for example, perform a long-press operation on the display area corresponding to any email in the search result.

The first operation may also be in other forms in the present application, which are not exemplified herein.

S303, responding to the first operation, displaying a window for merging and forwarding the e-mail, wherein the window for merging and forwarding the e-mail comprises a control for merging and forwarding.

When the electronic device detects the first operation, a window for merging and forwarding the e-mail is displayed in the display screen 194, where the window may be as shown in fig. 5(b), 6(b), 7(b), and 8(d), and the window may be displayed at the side of the display screen 194, for example, at the lower side of the display screen in fig. 5(b), at the left side of the display screen in fig. 6(b), and at the right side of the display screen in fig. 7(b), and of course, the window may also be a pop-up window displayed in the central area of the display screen, as shown in fig. 8 (d). The window includes various operations that can be performed on the e-mail, such as a delete operation, a reply operation, a forward operation, a merge-forward operation, and the like.

S304, receiving a second operation input by the user on the window for merging and forwarding the e-mail, wherein the second operation is used for triggering the operation for merging and forwarding the e-mail.

The second operation may be a click operation performed by the user on a display area corresponding to the merge-and-forward operation in the window for merge-and-forward of the email. As shown in fig. 5(c), 6(c), 7(c) and 8 (e). Of course, other operations may be also possible, for example, an input operation such as a voice input, a gesture input, or a shaking device may be used, which is not limited herein.

S305, responding to the second operation, and displaying a fifth interface, wherein the fifth interface is used for selecting the e-mails to be combined.

After the electronic device receives the second operation, it is determined that the user needs to perform the operation of merging and forwarding the e-mails, and the merging of the e-mails needs at least two e-mails, so that an interface for selecting the e-mails to be merged is displayed on the display screen 194.

Prompt information can be included in the fifth interface and used for prompting the user to perform selection operation of the e-mail. In order to facilitate the user to select the e-mails, a selection box can be arranged in front of all the e-mails displayed in the first interface, and in addition, a status bar can be arranged above the prompt message, and the status bar can comprise a cancel control and a confirm control. Referring to fig. 5(d), since the subsequent steps in fig. 6 to 8 are similar to fig. 5, the description is omitted here, and the subsequent steps will be described below by taking fig. 5 as an example.

S306, receiving selection operation input by a user.

If the user clicks the display area corresponding to a certain email, the email is represented as an email to be merged, so that after the electronic equipment receives the click operation of the user on the certain email, a check square pattern is displayed in a selection frame in front of the email, or the selection frame is filled in. For example, in fig. 5(d), the user selects the first email and the second email as the emails to be merged, when the user selection is completed, the determination control in the fifth interface may be clicked, and when the electronic device receives a click operation of the determination control by the user, the electronic device determines that the user has determined the emails to be merged.

S307, responding to the selection operation, performing merging operation on the e-mails to be merged, and displaying a second interface, wherein the second interface is used for displaying the merged e-mails.

And after the electronic equipment determines the e-mails to be combined, combining the e-mails to be combined according to the information of each e-mail. The sending of the e-mail needs to include sender information, a subject, and a body, and optionally, may further include Carbon Copy (CC) or Blind Carbon Copy (BCC), and a combining manner of these information is described below.

Aiming at the recipient information, under the scene of combining and forwarding, the recipient information of the original mail can still be used as the recipient information of the combined mail. The following describes a manner of merging recipient information.

First, a processor of the electronic device may obtain recipient information of each electronic mail to be merged, and perform deduplication processing, that is, for a mail address corresponding to each piece of recipient information, according to a mail address standard protocol, for example, request for comments (RFC) files (e.g., RFC5321, RFC5322, and related extensions RFC 6531), a local part (local-part) and a domain name (domain) of each mail address are extracted as Identifiers (IDs) corresponding to the mail address, and if a plurality of IDs are the same, one of the IDs with the most complete information is reserved, and other duplicate IDs are deleted, so as to generate a recipient information list.

In the second example, if the electronic device receives an email every time, the received email is analyzed to obtain and store information such as a sender information field, a recipient information field, a subject field, sending time, receiving time, a body, an attachment and the like of the email, the electronic device may obtain recipient information of each email to be merged from a database and/or a text library according to identification information of the email to be merged, and then perform deduplication processing on the recipient information of multiple emails to be merged (the specific process is similar to the corresponding content in the first example), so as to generate a recipient information list.

It should be noted that, if each email further includes a CC field or a BCC field, the two fields are also processed in the same manner, so as to obtain a carbon copy list and a carbon copy list, which are not described herein again.

For the subject, the key words of the subject in each email to be combined can be extracted, the key words of the subjects of a plurality of emails are obtained, and repeated key words, namely the subject of the email after combination, are deleted. For example, the emails to be merged are the first email and the second email in fig. 5(a), the keywords of the subject of the first email are "XX item" and "data of the first stage", the keywords of the subject of the second email are "XX item" and "data of the second stage", and then the subject of the merged email is "XX item data of the first stage and data of the second stage". Or, the subjects of each email may be directly spliced, for example, the emails to be merged are the first email and the second email in fig. 5(a), and then the subject of the merged email "please check the data of the second stage of the XX item" and "please check the data of the first stage of the XX item". Of course, other ways of merging topics may be used, not just examples.

Aiming at the text, the text template can be defined in an html/css mode, or a plaintext template, the text of each electronic mail to be combined is typeset, then the typesetting content of each electronic mail to be combined can be added to the end of the typesetting content of the last electronic mail according to the sequence of receiving time until all the electronic mails to be combined are spliced.

And for other information in the e-mail, such as attachments and the like, listing all attachments in the e-mail to be merged as attachments of the merged e-mail. And then filling the generated recipient information list in the recipient information field, filling the generated carbon copy person information list in the carbon copy person information field, and filling the generated secret carbon copy person information list in the secret carbon copy person information field, thereby obtaining the combined e-mail, and displaying the combined e-mail on a third interface.

As shown in fig. 5(e), the recipients of the first email are "wangxiaoer @ xx.com", the recipients of the second email are "wangxiaoer @ xx.com" and "lisir @ xx.com", and then the merged recipient information is "wangxiaoer @ xx.com" and "lisir @ xx.com". The method comprises the steps that a first electronic mail is copied as "lisiz @ XX.com" and "zhaojiu @ XX.com", a second electronic mail is copied as "wangwu @ XX.com" and "zhangsan @ XX.com", so that combined copied person information of "lisiz @ XX.com", "zhaojiu @ XX.com", "wangwu @ XX.com" and "zhangsan @ XX.com" is obtained, the copied persons can be folded for the convenience of a user to check due to the fact that the number of the copied persons is large, an "expansion" control is added after the copied person information is copied, and all copied person information is expanded after the user clicks the "expansion" control. The subject of the merged e-mail is "XX project data of the first stage and data of the second stage", the text is obtained by splicing the texts of the two e-mails, for simplifying the description, the text of the merged e-mail is shown in fig. 5(e), and the specific content of the text is not described. Note that the secret copy feed is not included in fig. 5 (e).

In addition, in the second interface, the displayed contents of the merged e-mail are all in an editable state, for example, a user may delete part of recipients or part of transcription persons in the recipient information, or may modify a subject or modify a text, etc., as required. In the second interface, a cancel control and a send control may be further included, if the user does not need to merge and forward the email, the user may click the cancel control, and if the user confirms that the merged email is correct, the user may click the send control to send the merged email.

S308, receiving the confirmation sending operation of the user, responding to the confirmation sending operation, and sending the combined e-mail.

And when the electronic equipment receives the clicking operation of the user in the display area corresponding to the sending control, sending the combined electronic mail to a receiver and a transcriber in the combined electronic mail.

The mode of sending the combined e-mail by the electronic equipment may be batch sending, that is, sending the combined e-mail to a plurality of senders and a plurality of transcribers at the same time. Alternatively, the combined e-mail may be sent a plurality of times in order of the plurality of senders and the plurality of transcribers, and only one of the plurality of senders and the plurality of transcribers may be used as a receiver of the e-mail for each sending. Alternatively, the merged email may be sent multiple times, and a part of the senders or a part of the transcribers (for example, two recipients or two transcribers) may be used as the recipients of the email in each sending.

Or, the electronic device may create a group according to the information of the recipient and the transcriber in the combined email, for example, the recipient information and the transcriber information may be a mail address, and the mail address may be associated with the ID of the user, the electronic device may determine the user ID of the recipient and the user ID of the transcriber according to the mail address, then create a group according to the obtained user ID, and display the group on a fourth interface, as shown in fig. 8(f), the third interface may be in the form of a chat window, and then send the combined email to the fourth interface, for example, send a bubble message in the chat window with the user ID corresponding to the electronic device (i.e., "user a" in fig. 8 (f)), the bubble message showing part of the information of the combined email (e.g., only showing the subject), and a member is displayed at the upper right corner of the fourth interface, wherein the member comprises user IDs corresponding to the receiver and the carbon copy, the member can be checked when the '+' is clicked, and the combined email can be opened for checking when the email is clicked by the user.

In the embodiment of the present application, the transmission method is not limited.

In the embodiment shown in fig. 3, after the user selects a plurality of emails to be merged, the electronic device automatically merges the plurality of emails according to a preset rule. In other embodiments, the electronic device may also be incorporated according to a selection operation of the user. Referring to fig. 9, a flowchart of another example of a method for email merging provided in the embodiment of the present application is shown, which includes the following specific steps:

and S901, displaying a first interface.

Step S901 is similar to step S301, and will not be described herein again. In the embodiment shown in fig. 9, taking fig. 10 as an example for explanation, the first interface may be as shown in fig. 10 (a).

And S902, receiving a first operation input by a user.

The first operation may be a preset operation, for example, an operation of stopping a display area corresponding to any email without an interval or for a preset time period, as shown in fig. 6 (a). Alternatively, the operation may be an operation of sliding left or right in a display area corresponding to any email, as shown in fig. 10 (b). Of course, other operations are possible, and are not limited herein.

And S903, responding to the first operation, and displaying a window for merging and forwarding the e-mail, wherein the window for merging and forwarding the e-mail comprises a control for merging and forwarding.

And S904, receiving a second operation input by the user on the window for merging and forwarding the e-mail, wherein the second operation is used for triggering the operation for merging and forwarding the e-mail.

Steps S903 to S904 are similar to steps S303 to S304, and are not repeated herein, and in fig. 10(c), the window is taken as a pop-up window and the second operation is taken as a click operation example for explanation.

S905, responding to the second operation, and displaying a third interface, wherein the third interface is used for displaying the merging mode of the e-mails.

In the embodiment of the application, the user can select the merging mode of the e-mails. As an example, in an email to be merged, there may be a case where recipient information and carbon copy information in a part of emails are the same, for example, the emails to be merged are first to third emails, and recipient information and carbon copy information in the second and third emails are the same, and then a user may select to merge the recipient information of the first and second emails, which may reduce the amount of computation of the electronic device in this way. Or, the user does not want to send the combined e-mail to the recipient corresponding to one of the e-mails, for example, if the user determines that the combined e-mail does not need to be sent to the recipient corresponding to the third e-mail, the user may only select to combine the recipients of the first e-mail and the second e-mail, so that the combining process can better meet the user's requirement, and the flexibility of the electronic device is increased.

The carbon number of the recipient can be set to the same value as the carbon number of the recipient.

In the embodiment of the application, two ways of merging the body of the e-mail are provided. The first merging method is as shown in the embodiment shown in fig. 3, and the method directly splices the texts of all the emails to be merged, and uses the spliced contents as the text of the merged email, which may be referred to as a fused content method. In the second merging mode, the body of a certain email can be used as the body of the merged email, and other emails are carried in the merged email in the form of attachments, which can be called a to-be-attached-file merging mode. In the third merging mode, the texts of a part of the e-mails may be spliced to be used as the text of the merged e-mail, and the rest of the e-mails are carried in the merged e-mail in the form of an attachment, which may be referred to as a partial fused content mode. In the embodiment of the present application, the name of the merging manner is not limited.

Therefore, in the embodiment of the present application, the third interface may include the following cases. In fig. 11, the e-mails to be merged are taken as the first e-mail to the third e-mail in fig. 10(a) as an example.

Referring to fig. 11(a), only the selection of the recipient information is included in the third interface. For example, in the third interface, the prompt "select recipient" is displayed, selectable emails are displayed below the prompt, a selection frame is displayed in front of each email, the user selects an email by clicking the display area corresponding to the email, and when the user selects a certain email, the selection frame in front of the email is adjusted to a selected state, for example, the selection frame is filled with a "√" pattern or the like.

Accordingly, in this case, the third interface may include only the selection of the carbon copy information, or only the selection of the merging manner, etc., which is not necessarily exemplified herein.

Referring to fig. 11(b), the third interface includes the selection of the recipient information and the selection of the merging mode. For example, in the third interface, two prompt messages "select recipients" and "select merge mode" are respectively displayed, and the portion of "select recipients" is similar to that in fig. 11(a), and is not described again here. Under the prompt message 'selection merging mode', three modes provided by the application are displayed, namely a fused content mode, a fused mode with an attachment and a partially fused content mode. And a selection frame is displayed in front of each merging mode, so that the selection of the merging mode by the user is similar to the selection of the recipient information, and the detailed description is omitted.

Referring to fig. 11(c), the third interface includes the selection of recipient information, the selection of carbon copy sender, and the selection of merging method. The selection of the copy-to-person information and the selection of the secret copy-to-person are similar to the selection of the recipient information, and are not described here. Specifically, all selectable contents are listed and displayed. The contents of the respective parts are similar to those of the two previous examples, and are not described again here.

S906, receiving a first selection operation input by a user.

For convenience of explanation, the third interface is taken as the display interface shown in fig. 11 (b).

As a first example, the electronic device receives a selection operation of a user selecting a first email and a second email in "select recipient" and a selection operation of selecting a merge content mode in "select merge mode", and clicks a determination control.

As a second example, the electronic device receives a selection operation that the user selects a first email and a second email in "select recipient", and selects a selection operation with an attachment fusion mode in "select merge mode".

The electronic device will perform different steps depending on the selection operation input by the user. When the selection operation input by the user is a first example, the electronic device executes step S907 and step S911; when the selection operation input by the user is the second example, the electronic apparatus executes steps S908 to S911. Step S907 and steps S908 to S910 are executed by selecting only one of them, that is, step S907 is executed, or steps S908 to S910 are executed.

And S907, responding to the first selection operation, performing a merging operation on the e-mails to be merged, and displaying a sixth interface, wherein the sixth interface is used for displaying the merged e-mails.

The selection operation of the user is to merge the recipients of the first e-mail and the recipients of the second e-mail, so that the electronic device merges the recipient information extracted from the first e-mail and the recipient information extracted from the second e-mail as the recipients of the merged e-mail, and then merges the subjects, attachments and texts of the first to third e-mails, wherein the specific merging manner is similar to the corresponding contents in step S307, and is not described herein again. Thereby generating a sixth interface, and then displaying the sixth interface on the display screen, as shown in fig. 5 (e).

S908, responding to the first selection operation, and displaying a seventh interface, wherein the seventh interface is used for displaying a selection interface of the main email.

As can be seen from the foregoing, in the method with attachment fusion, the text of a certain email is used as the text of the merged email, and other emails are carried in the merged email in the form of attachments, so that the email is the main email, and the user can select the email according to the use requirement. Specifically, the seventh interface is displayed on the display screen, the seventh interface is located around the third interface, and the position of the seventh interface can be adjusted according to the position of the third interface. For example, if the position on the right of the third interface is enough for the seventh interface to be displayed, the seventh interface is displayed on the right of the third interface; if the position to the right of the third interface is not enough to completely display the seventh interface, the seventh interface may be displayed below or to the left of the third interface, etc. Taking the third interface shown in fig. 12(a) as an example, the seventh interface is displayed on the right side of the third interface in fig. 12(b) as an example. A prompt message "select main email" is displayed in the seventh interface, all the emails selected by the user are listed below the prompt message, and a selection box is displayed in front of each email. In order to facilitate drawing, the actual content of each email is replaced by the "first email" to the "third email" in fig. 12, and in actual use, the actual content of each email can also be directly displayed, so that the user can conveniently select after viewing the content.

As another example, the sixth interface may also be a drop-down menu box. As shown in fig. 12(c), after the user selects the mode with the attachment fusion, a drop-down menu box is displayed below the mode to be attached fusion, the prompt message "select main email" is displayed in the drop-down menu box, and an operable control is displayed on the right side of the prompt message, in fig. 12(c), the operable control is a triangle, and the user can select the main email by clicking the triangle control.

And S909, receiving a second selection operation of the user.

The user selects the main e-mail on the seventh interface. For example, in the seventh interface shown in fig. 12(b), by clicking the selection box in front of the corresponding email, for example, the first email is selected in fig. 12(b), then the selection box in front of the first email in fig. 12(b) is in a filled state; in the seventh interface shown in fig. 12(c), after clicking the triangle control, the user clicks the main email to be selected by scrolling the display bar. For example, if the first e-mail is selected in fig. 12(c), the first e-mail is displayed in the drop-down menu box of fig. 12 (c).

The user then clicks the "confirm" control in the third interface.

S910, responding to the second selection operation, performing a merging operation on the e-mails to be merged, and displaying a second interface, wherein the second interface is used for displaying the merged e-mails.

The selection operation of the user is to merge the recipients of the first email and the recipients of the second email, so that the electronic device merges the recipient information extracted from the first email and the recipient information extracted from the second email to serve as the recipients of the merged emails, and the specific merging manner is similar to the corresponding contents in step S307, which is not described herein again.

And the electronic equipment acquires the text of the first e-mail as the text of the combined e-mail because the main e-mail selected by the user is the first e-mail. Then, the second e-mail and the third e-mail are converted into attachments in a standard format such as MSG or EML, and the generated attachments and the attachments carried in the first e-mail are displayed in the attachments of the merged e-mail, as shown in fig. 12 (d). In fig. 12(d), the attachment 1 is taken as an attachment in the first email, the email 2 represents the second email converted into the EML format, and the email 3 represents the third email converted into the EML format.

S911, receiving the confirmation sending operation of the user, responding to the confirmation sending operation, and sending the combined email.

Step S911 is similar to step S308 and will not be described herein.

It should be noted that, in the foregoing embodiment, an improved manner of merging and forwarding is mainly described, and the improved manner may also be applied to a step of replying to an email, specifically, "merging and forwarding" in the foregoing embodiment may be directly replaced by "merging and replying", which has similar principles and is not described herein again.

In addition, the above-described improvement scheme may also be applied to group message merging. For example, after the user selects two chat groups, the above merging principle may be adopted to merge the contacts in the two chat groups into one big group, and merge and display the information in the two chat groups in the big group. Or, when the electronic device detects that the user selectively merges some messages in one chat group and sends the merged messages to another chat group, the electronic device can automatically merge the contacts in the two chat groups into one big group and display the merged messages in the big group, so that the effect of message summarization can be achieved, the problem of group splitting is solved, and the communication efficiency is improved.

In the embodiments provided in the present application, the method provided in the embodiments of the present application is described from the perspective of an electronic device as an execution subject. In order to implement the functions in the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the terminal may include a hardware structure and/or a software module, and implement the functions in the form of a hardware structure, a software module, or a hardware structure and a software module. Whether any of the above-described functions is implemented as a hardware structure, a software module, or a hardware structure plus a software module depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the technical solution.

An embodiment of the present application further provides an electronic device, where the electronic device includes a module/unit that performs all or part of the steps described in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 and fig. 9; these modules/units may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer-readable storage medium, which may include a memory, where the memory may store a program, and the program, when executed, causes an electronic device to execute all or part of the steps described in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 and 9.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product, which when run on an electronic device, causes the electronic device to perform all or part of the steps described in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 and fig. 9.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, where the chip is coupled to a memory in an electronic device, and is configured to call a computer program stored in the memory and execute all or part of the steps described in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 and fig. 9; "coupled" in the context of this application means that two elements are joined to each other either directly or indirectly.

Embodiments of the present application further provide a graphical user interface on an electronic device, where the electronic device has a display screen, a camera, a memory, and one or more processors, where the one or more processors are configured to execute one or more computer programs stored in the memory, and the graphical user interface includes a graphical user interface displayed when the electronic device performs all or part of the steps described in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 and 9.

It should be noted that the division of the unit in the embodiment of the present application is schematic, and is only a logic function division, and there may be another division manner in actual implementation. Each functional unit in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit. For example, in the above embodiment, the first obtaining unit and the second obtaining unit may be the same unit or different units. The integrated unit can be realized in a form of hardware, and can also be realized in a form of a software functional unit.

As used in the above embodiments, the term "when …" may be interpreted to mean "if …" or "after …" or "in response to a determination of …" or "in response to a detection of …", depending on the context. Similarly, depending on the context, the phrase "at the time of determination …" or "if (a stated condition or event) is detected" may be interpreted to mean "if the determination …" or "in response to the determination …" or "upon detection (a stated condition or event)" or "in response to detection (a stated condition or event)".

In the above embodiments, the implementation may be wholly or partially realized by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When loaded and executed on a computer, cause the processes or functions described in accordance with the embodiments of the application to occur, in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center by wire (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, digital subscriber line) or wirelessly (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device, such as a server, a data center, etc., that incorporates one or more of the available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy disk, hard disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., solid state disk), among others.

The foregoing description, for purpose of explanation, has been described with reference to specific embodiments. However, the exemplary discussions above are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the application to the precise forms disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the application and its practical applications, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the application and various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated.

Claims

1. A method for merging mail, comprising:

displaying a first interface, wherein the first interface comprises an application window of a first application, the first application is used for sending emails, and at least two emails are displayed in the window of the first application;

receiving an input operation of a user, wherein the input operation is used for triggering the merging operation of part or all of the at least two emails;

responding to the input operation, combining part or all of the at least two emails to obtain a combined email;

displaying a second interface, wherein the second interface comprises the merged email;

receiving a sending operation of a user;

and responding to the sending operation, and sending the combined e-mail.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least two emails are searched based on keywords entered by a user.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein merging some or all of the at least two emails to obtain a merged email comprises:

acquiring characteristic information in each electronic mail in the partial or all electronic mails, wherein the characteristic information at least comprises recipient information, carbon copy information, subject information and text information;

and combining the information with the same type of the characteristic information in the partial or all electronic mails to obtain the combined electronic mail.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein merging the information with the same type of characteristic information in the part or all of the e-mails to obtain a merged e-mail comprises:

merging the information with the same type of the characteristic information in the partial or all e-mails to obtain merged characteristic information;

carrying out de-duplication processing on the same type of feature information to obtain de-duplicated feature information;

and generating a combined e-mail according to the characteristic information after the de-duplication processing.

5. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein merging some or all of the at least two emails to obtain a merged email comprises:

displaying a third interface, wherein the third interface is used for displaying the merging mode of the e-mails;

receiving selection operation of a user;

and according to the selection operation, combining part or all of the at least two emails to obtain a combined email.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the merging means includes a means for merging the contents of each of the at least two emails or a means for merging some of the at least two emails in the form of attachments.

7. The method of any of claims 1-6, wherein sending the merged email comprises:

acquiring the recipient information and the transcriber information in the combined electronic mail, and sending the combined electronic mail according to the recipient information and the transcriber information; or the like, or, alternatively,

displaying a fourth interface, wherein the fourth interface is used for displaying a group created according to the recipient information and the carbon copy information in the combined electronic mail; sending the merged email to the group.

8. An electronic device comprising to one or more processors and one or more memories and a display,

the memory for storing one or more computer programs;

the memory stores one or more computer programs that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to perform:

receiving a sending operation of a user;

and responding to the sending operation, and sending the combined e-mail.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the at least two emails are searched based on keywords input by a user.

10. The electronic device according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the processor merges some or all of the at least two emails to obtain a merged email, comprising:

11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the processor merges the types of characteristic information in the partial or total e-mails into a merged e-mail, and comprises:

12. The electronic device according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the processor merges some or all of the at least two emails to obtain a merged email, comprising:

receiving selection operation of a user;

13. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the merging means includes a means for merging the content of each of the at least two emails or a means for merging some of the at least two emails in the form of attachments.

14. The electronic device of any of claims 8-13, wherein the processor sends the merged email comprising:

15. A computer storage medium, characterized in that the computer-readable storage medium comprises a computer program which, when run on an electronic device, causes the electronic device to perform the method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

16. A program product, characterized in that it comprises instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to carry out the method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.