JP2000322344A - Electronic mail display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide easily understandable list display by an electronic mail summarizing means. SOLUTION: In this electronic mail display device, electronic mail data matched with an extraction condition are extracted and connected by a mail extracting and connecting means 6 according to each condition held in a state memory 10. The redundant part common to the electronic mail data matched with a routine part summery condition is deleted by a routine part summarizing means 7. The part matched with a quoted part summery condition of the redundant part common to the plural electronic mail data is deleted by a quoted part summarizing means 8. The redundant part common to each electronic mail data among the data structure of the electronic mails matched with a structural summery condition is deleted by a mail structure summarizing means 9. The summarized electronic mail data are outputted to a display means 1 by a processing means 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus for presenting electronic information, and more particularly to an electronic mail display apparatus for providing an electronic mail environment having good visibility and operability.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An e-mail display device for transmitting and receiving electronic documents can communicate without much restriction of time and distance, and can adjust a comment by a large number of people such as a broadcast. The range of use is rapidly expanding as a daily means of dialogue replacing FAX. However, recipients must handle large volumes of electronic documents on a daily basis because they can be easily and quickly sent. A conventional electronic mail display device displays received electronic documents one by one like a letter or a facsimile, and thus has a problem that it is not suitable for handling a large number of electronic documents.

[0003] As a first prior art, a conventional e-mail display device having a function of managing a large amount of e-mails in a static group by using display parts or the like simulating a document folder is a typical business operation. However, since it is not possible to cope with the user's intention that changes depending on the situation, there is a problem that the user may be confused by grouping that does not conform to the intention.

A second prior art is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open
As shown in JP-A-110605, in a conventional e-mail display device in which a character string in e-mail data is replaced with a shortened character string prepared in advance, if replacement is possible, the listability is improved. When a large amount of e-mails arrive from the Internet, it is difficult to prepare shortened character strings in all situations, and there is a problem that the effect of improving the listability is small.

As a third prior art, in a conventional electronic mail display device which presents a list of electronic mails arriving from information such as a transmission date and time, a sender name, and a document name to a user, an electronic mail having the same document name as a reply function is used. When an e-mail is sent or an e-mail is sent to a fixed sender or destination such as a mailing list, the contents of each e-mail are not known from the list, so all e-mail contents are referred to. There is a problem that a user is forced to perform a complicated operation. For example, as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-262076, information indicating the progress of exchange is attached to an e-mail, and the e-mail arriving according to the exchange progress information is displayed in a list having a hierarchical structure. In the mail display device, it is possible to easily understand who the opinion is based on the hierarchical structure display, but it is necessary to refer to each e-mail for the content of the conversation, and it is not possible to reduce the operation load of the user.

A fourth prior art is disclosed in, for example,
As disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Nos. 0-207794 and 10-254908, a conventional e-mail display device having a function of detecting a quoted portion of e-mail data from the presence or absence of a quotation mark, Because the symbol itself has not been standardized, the citation cannot be detected correctly,
There is a problem that the effect of improving the visibility by reducing or deleting the quoted portion cannot be sufficiently expected.

[0007]

The above-mentioned conventional e-mail display device has the following problems.

As a first problem, as described in the first related art, there is a problem that static grouping cannot cope with a user's intention and causes confusion of the user.

As a second problem, as described in the second related art, there is a problem that it is difficult to prepare a shortened character string in all situations, and the effect of improving the listability is small.

As a third problem, as shown in the third prior art, even if a list display is presented, the contents of the conversation must refer to individual electronic mails, forcing the user to perform a complicated operation. There is a problem.

As a fourth problem, as shown in the fourth prior art, the presence or absence of a quotation mark makes it impossible to correctly detect the quotation part, and the effect of improving the visibility by reducing or deleting the quotation part is fully expected. There is a problem that can not be.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the conventional e-mail display devices by summarizing and displaying a large amount of e-mails with a focus on a portion newly input by an e-mail sender. An electronic mail display device is provided.

[0013]

According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic mail display device comprising: a display unit for displaying data; an input unit for detecting a user input; a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device; Storing new electronic mail data in response to a user input detected by the input unit, transmitting and receiving electronic mail data via the communication unit, storing and reading out the electronic mail data with respect to the storing unit, and An e-mail display device comprising: a processing unit for displaying e-mail data on the display unit; a state memory for storing extraction conditions for e-mail data to be displayed on the display unit; A mail extracting / combining means for reading out the mail data from the storage means and outputting the combined e-mail data; Processing means and having a function to modify the contents of the state memory in response to the result of the processing is performed in response to user input.

Further, in the electronic mail display device of the present invention, the status memory holds a structural summary condition of the electronic mail data to be displayed on the display means, and the data structure of the electronic mail that matches the structural summary condition is stored. A mail structure summarizing means for outputting e-mail data in which a redundant portion common to each of the combined e-mail data is deleted is provided.

[0015] Further, the electronic mail display device of the present invention comprises:
The state memory holds the standard partial summary condition of the e-mail data to be displayed on the display means, and a redundant portion common to the combined e-mail data among the e-mail data matching the standard partial summary condition Characterized in that it comprises a standard partial summarizing means for outputting the e-mail data from which is deleted.

Still further, in the electronic mail display device according to the present invention, the status memory holds a citation summary condition of the electronic mail data to be displayed on the display means, and a plurality of electronic mail data of the combined electronic mail data are stored. A cited-part summarizing unit for outputting e-mail data in which a part that meets the cited-part summarization condition among redundant parts common to the mail data is deleted is provided.

On the other hand, in the electronic mail display method of the present invention, a combined mail generating step of reading out the electronic mail data meeting the extraction condition and outputting the combined electronic mail data; A standardized partial summarization step of outputting e-mail data in which redundant portions common to e-mail data matching the standardized partial summarization condition have been deleted; and a redundant common summarizing step for each of the combined e-mail data. Of the parts
A cited-part summarization step of outputting e-mail data in which a part matching the cited-part summarization condition has been deleted; and a redundant common part of the combined e-mail data among the data structures of the e-mails that match the structure summary condition. The method further includes a mail structure summarizing step of outputting the e-mail data with the part deleted, and a summary mail displaying step of displaying the summarized e-mail data.

[0018] On the other hand, the recording medium of the present invention comprises a computer, a display means for displaying data, an input means for detecting a user input, a communication means for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device, and stores data. Storage means for generating new e-mail data in response to a user input detected by the input means, transmitting and receiving e-mail data via the communication means, storing and reading out e-mail data to and from the storage means, and displaying the display means Processing means for displaying the e-mail data to, a state memory holding the extraction conditions of the e-mail data to be displayed on the display means,
A program is recorded for reading out e-mail data matching the extraction condition from the storage means and for functioning as e-mail extraction and combination means for outputting combined e-mail data.

Further, the recording medium of the present invention provides a computer with a display unit for displaying data, an input unit for detecting a user input, a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device, and storing data. Storage means for generating new e-mail data in response to a user input detected by the input means, transmitting and receiving e-mail data via the communication means, storing and reading out e-mail data to and from the storage means, and displaying the display means Processing means for displaying e-mail data on the display means, state memory for storing e-mail data extraction conditions and structural summary conditions to be displayed on the display means, and e-mail data matching the extraction conditions to the storage means A mail extraction / combination means for outputting the combined e-mail data read from the The program for functioning as a mail structure summary means for outputting electronic mail data delete redundant parts common to the electronic mail data for each coupled to the recording of write data structure.

Further, the recording medium of the present invention provides a computer with a display unit for displaying data, an input unit for detecting a user input, a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device, and storing data. Storage means for generating new e-mail data in response to a user input detected by the input means, transmitting and receiving e-mail data via the communication means, storing and reading out e-mail data to and from the storage means, and displaying the display means Processing means for displaying the e-mail data to the display means, a state memory for holding the e-mail data extraction conditions to be displayed on the display means and the standard partial summary conditions, and storing the e-mail data matching the extraction conditions A mail extracting / combining means for outputting the combined e-mail data read from the means; Recording a program for functioning as a fixed part summary means for outputting electronic mail data delete redundant portion common in e-mail data that matches the snippet summary conditions of Rudeta.

Still further, the recording medium of the present invention comprises a computer, a display unit for displaying data, an input unit for detecting a user input, a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device, and a device for storing data. Storing means for generating new e-mail data in response to a user input detected by the input means, transmitting / receiving e-mail data via the communication means, storing / reading e-mail data to / from the storing means, and displaying the data Processing means for displaying the e-mail data to the means, state memory for holding the e-mail data extraction conditions to be displayed on the display means and citation partial summarization conditions, and e-mail data matching the extraction conditions. A mail extracting / combining means for outputting the combined e-mail data read from the storage means; The program for functioning as citations summary means for outputting electronic mail data to delete the portion that matches the cited portion summaries conditions of the redundant portion common multiple electronic mail data of the mail data is recorded.

Further, the recording medium of the present invention provides a computer with a display unit for displaying data, an input unit for detecting a user input, a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device, and storing data. Storage means for generating new e-mail data in response to a user input detected by the input means, transmitting and receiving e-mail data via the communication means, storing and reading out e-mail data to and from the storage means, and displaying the display means Processing means for displaying e-mail data to the display means; state memory for storing e-mail data extraction conditions to be displayed on the display means, standard partial summary conditions, quoted partial summary conditions, and structure summary conditions; A mail extraction unit that reads out e-mail data that meets a condition from the storage unit and outputs the combined e-mail data Means for outputting combined e-mail data from the combined e-mail data, the e-mail data having the redundant part common to the e-mail data meeting the above-mentioned e-mail partial summary condition removed, and Cited-part summarization means for outputting e-mail data in which a part matching the cited-part summarization condition is deleted from redundant parts common to a plurality of e-mail data of the e-mail data, and an e-mail meeting the structural summarization condition And recording a program for functioning as a mail structure summarizing means for outputting electronic mail data in which a redundant portion common to each of the combined electronic mail data in the data structure is deleted.

The electronic mail display device of the present invention solves the problem of the conventional electronic mail display device by having a means for deleting redundant data common to a plurality of electronic mails and combining the whole data.

In the electronic mail display device of the present invention, there is provided a mail extracting / combining means for reading out from the storing means electronic mail data which meets the extraction conditions held in the state memory and outputting the combined electronic mail data, and the processing means is provided. By modifying the contents of the state memory according to the result of processing performed in response to a user input, dynamic grouping according to the user's intention is possible, and the first problem is solved.

Further, in the electronic mail display device of the present invention,
A mail structure summarizing unit that outputs e-mail data in which a redundant part common to each of the combined e-mail data is deleted from the data structure of the e-mail that matches the structure summarization condition held by the state memory; By summarizing according to a standard electronic mail data structure, it is possible to always provide a display with a high level of listing without preparing a shortened character string in advance, and solve the second problem.

Further, in the electronic mail display device of the present invention, of the combined electronic mail data, an electronic mail in which a redundant portion common to the electronic mail data meeting the standard partial summary condition held in the state memory is deleted. It has a standardized partial summarization unit that outputs mail data, and can provide a high-level display with partial redundancy eliminated, for example, comparing the same sender's mail and deleting the signature part. This eliminates the need for the user to refer to individual e-mail data, thereby solving the third problem.

Further, in the electronic mail display device of the present invention, among the redundant parts common to the plurality of electronic mail data of the combined electronic mail data, the quoted part summarization condition held in the state memory is satisfied. Having a quoted part summarizing means for outputting the e-mail data with the part deleted,
The fourth problem is solved because it is possible to provide a display with high visibility, which is summarized by judging whether or not it is redundant regardless of the presence or absence of a quotation mark.

[0028]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the electronic mail display device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The e-mail display device according to this embodiment includes a display unit 1
, Input means 2, processing means 3, communication means 4, storage means 5, mail extraction / combination means 6, fixed part summary means 7, quoted part summary means 8, mail structure summary means 9
And a state memory 10.

The display means 1 performs data display.

The input means 2 detects a user's input.

The processing means 3 generates new e-mail data, transmits / receives e-mail data via the communication means 4, writes e-mail data to the storage means 5, and responds to the user input detected by the input means 1. Then, the electronic mail data is displayed on the display unit 1. Further, the processing means 3
The contents of the state memory 10 are modified according to the processing result.

The communication means 4 transmits and receives data to and from an external device (not shown).

The storage means 5 stores data.

The mail extracting / combining means 6 includes a state memory 10
The e-mail data that matches the extraction condition held by is read from the storage unit 5 and the combined e-mail data is output.

The standardized partial summarizing means 7 receives the combined e-mail data from the mail extracting / combining means 6 and redundantly sets a common part among the e-mail data which meets the standardized partial summarization condition held in the state memory 10. Delete and output as part.

The cited-part summarizing means 8 receives the e-mail data combined from the fixed-part summarizing means 7 and, among the parts common to a plurality of e-mail data, the state memory 1
A part that satisfies the cited-part summary condition held by 0 is deleted and output as a redundant part.

The mail structure summarizing means 9 receives the combined e-mail data from the quoted part summarizing means 8 and, out of the data structures of the e-mails matching the structure summarizing condition held in the state memory 10, the combined e-mail data The portion common to the data is deleted as a redundant portion and output to the processing means 3.

The state memory 10 stores information relating to a method of summarizing electronic mail data to be displayed on the display means 1. The state memory 10 holds the extraction condition of the e-mail data, the standard partial summary condition, the cited partial summary condition, and the structure summary condition.

FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG. 4, FIG. 5, FIG.
5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of displaying e-mail data in the e-mail display device according to the first embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 2, the display processing of the electronic mail data includes a state memory setting step 901, a combined mail generation step 902, and a fixed partial summary step 903.
And a cited-part summarizing step 904, a mail structure summarizing step 905, and a summary mail displaying step 906. The processing means 3, the mail extracting / combining means 6, the standard partial summarizing means 7, the cited-part summarizing means 8, The operation of the mail structure summarizing means 9 and the processing means 3 is shown.

Referring to FIG. 3, the state memory setting step 901 includes an operation state change detection step 911 and a state memory change step 912.

Referring to FIG. 4, combined mail generation step 902 includes extraction condition determination step 921, combined mail creation step 922, and read end determination step 923.
And a combined mail output step 924.

Referring to FIG. 5, the fixed-part summary step 903 includes a fixed-part summary condition determination step 931, a common part detection step 932, a fixed-part candidate creation step 933, a search end determination step 934, and a fixed-part deletion. Step 935.

Referring to FIG. 6, the cited-part summarizing step 904 includes a common-part detecting step 941, a cited-part summarizing condition determining step 942, a cited-part candidate creating step 943, a search end determining step 944, and a cited-part deleting step. And step 945.

Referring to FIG. 7, the mail structure summarizing step 905 includes a summarizing condition judging step 951, a structure summarizing part candidate creating step 952, a search end judging step 953, and a mail structure summarizing step 954.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of e-mail data used in the e-mail display device according to the first embodiment. In FIG. 8, the e-mail data representing the dialogue of the three users is A1, A2, A3, A4 in the order of reception time.
There are six A5 and A6. Each e-mail data is composed of a combination of parts such as a mail header part, a quoted part, a new input part, and a signature part.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of information held by the state memory 10 in the electronic mail display device according to the first embodiment. In FIG. 9, there are two types of information, C1 and C2. Each information includes [Connect], [For
m], [Quote], and [Header]. There are four parts, e.g., mail extraction / combination means 6, fixed part summary means 7, quoted part summary means 8, and mail structure summary means 9.
Is the condition for

FIGS. 10 and 11 are diagrams showing an example of output data of the electronic mail display device according to the first embodiment. 10 and 11, B1, B2, B3,
There are four types of output data B4, and the mail extraction / combining means 6, the standard partial summarizing means 7, the quoted partial summarizing means 8, and the mail structure summarizing means 9 respectively output the e-mail data under the conditions indicated by C1 in FIG. Represents the output data when summarizing.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of an output screen of the display means 1 in the electronic mail display device according to the first embodiment. 12 is an output screen B5 obtained as a result of performing the same summarization as in FIGS. 10 and 11 according to the condition of C2 in FIG.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of an output screen of a conventional electronic mail display device. Referring to FIG.
The list display is composed of four items: serial number, date and time, sender, and title.

Next, the operation of the thus-configured electronic mail display device according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

The six electronic mail data A1 to A1 shown in FIG.
When A6 is sent, the processing unit 3 receives these electronic mail data A1 to A6 from the communication unit 4 and stores them in the storage unit 5. When the user tries to refer to these e-mail data A1 to A6, the input means 2 detects the input of the user, and the processing means 3 prepares the display of the e-mail data A1 to A6 as processing corresponding to the user input. Perform (Step 901). More specifically, referring to FIG. 3, the processing means 3 detects that the operation state has changed due to a user input (step 911), and
Change the information held by (step 912). For example, consider the case where the information indicated by C1 in FIG.

Next, the mail extracting / combining means 6 reads out the electronic mail data from the storing means 5 with reference to the extracting condition of the state memory 10 (step 902). See Figure 4 for details.
9, the mail extraction / combination unit 6 selects “Subject” from the e-mail data stored in the storage unit 5 as shown in the [Connect] column of C1 in FIG.
The e-mail data including "TV" in the "t:" column is extracted (step 921), and the combined e-mail data is generated (step 922). Next, the mail extraction / combination means 6 searches all the e-mail data in the storage means 5 (step 923), and then outputs e-mail data as indicated by B1 in FIG. 10 (step 924).
The e-mail data B1 is e-mail data extracted as a dynamic group in response to a user input.

Next, the standardized part summarizing means 7 receives the electronic mail data B1 from the mail extracting and combining means 6, and summarizes the standardized part (step 903). The standard partial summarizing means 7 groups the same type of “From:” as the standard partial summarization conditions shown in the [Form] column (Group = “From:”). For example, the email data A1, A4, and A6 in FIG. 8 have the same "From:" column. More specifically, referring to FIG. 5, the standard partial summarizing means 7 detects that a portion corresponding to the electronic mail data A1 and A4 in the electronic mail data B1 of FIG. 10 matches the standard partial summary condition ( Step 931),
It is detected that the character string "Micchan." Matches the signature part in the latter half in those parts (step 932), and this part is set as a candidate for a fixed part (step 933). Similarly, in the portion corresponding to the email data A6, a match of "From:" is detected, and a fixed portion common to the email data A1, A4, and A6 is created. Similarly, a fixed part of the e-mail data A2, A5 is also created. After all searches have been completed (step 934),
The fixed part summary means 7 deletes these fixed parts (step 935) and outputs the e-mail data shown in B2 of FIG. The e-mail data B2 is e-mail data obtained by deleting a fixed part for each sender from the e-mail data B1 to improve the listability.

Next, the cited-part summarizing means 8 receives the e-mail data B2 from the fixed-form partial summarizing means 7 and summarizes the cited parts (step 904). Citation partial summarizing means 8
Is from the [Quote] column of C1 in FIG. 9 as a citation partial summarization condition, within two characters at the left end between adjacent (Distance = 1) email data (Left = 0-
Except for the addition of 2), a condition is obtained that the matching character string is deleted. For example, in FIG. 8, a character string such as “Yesterday's drama...” In the e-mail data A1 and the e-mail data A2 matches the quoted partial summary condition. Also,
The character string "Drama at 9 o'clock" in the e-mail data A4 is a quote from the e-mail data A2, and matches the condition because it is "9 o'clock ..." in the e-mail data A3. do not do. In detail, referring to FIG. 6, the cited-part summarizing means 8 has a common character string "Yesterday's drama ..." in a part corresponding to the e-mail data A1 and A2 from the e-mail data B2 in FIG. Is detected (step 941), it is detected that this character string matches the quoted part summary condition shown in C1 of FIG. 9 (step 942), and this character string is set as a candidate for the quoted part (step 943). ). Similarly, the cited-part summarizing means 8 detects other cited parts, and after all searches have been completed (step 944), deletes these cited parts (step 94).
5) Output the e-mail data shown in B3 in FIG. This e-mail data B3 is the e-mail data B
In contrast, the e-mail data is an e-mail data in which the quoted portion is deleted according to the flow of the conversation to improve the listability.

Subsequently, the mail structure summarizing means 9 receives the electronic mail data B3 from the quoted part summarizing means 8 and summarizes the mail structure (step 905). The mail structure summarizing means 9 obtains, from the [Header] column of C1 in FIG. 9, a condition that a part common to all mails is deleted (Del = $ CONST) as a structure summarization condition. In FIG. 8, portions such as “To:” and “Subject:” match this structural summary condition. More specifically, referring to FIG. 7, the mail structure summarizing means 9 detects that a portion such as “To:” or “From:” in the e-mail data B3 of FIG. 11 matches the structure summarization condition (step 9).
51), this part is set as a candidate for the structural summary part (step 952), and after all the search is completed (step 95)
3), these parts are deleted (step 954), and FIG.
The e-mail data shown in B4 of No. 1 is output. The e-mail data B4 is e-mail data obtained by deleting a redundant part in the e-mail structure from the e-mail data B3 to improve the listability.

Next, the processing means 3 receives the electronic mail data B4 from the mail structure summarizing means 9 and outputs it to the display means 1 (step 906). Thus, the email data A1 to A6 shown in FIG. 8 are summarized as shown in the email data B4 in FIG.

Similarly, when the user performs an operation to change the display content, the processing means 3 detects the user input via the input means 2 and changes the information in the state memory 10. For example,
It is assumed that the information is changed to the information indicated by C2 in FIG. C2
Is different from C1 only in the structure summarizing condition ([Header] column) of the mail structure summarizing means 9 and extracts the first three characters of "From:" of the e-mail data as tag information for identifying the sender. (Tag =...), And the remaining structure is deleted (Del = ＄ ALL). When summarization is performed under these conditions, the e-mail data A shown in FIG.
1 to A6 change from the e-mail data B1 in FIG. 10 to the e-mail data B2 and the e-mail data B3 in FIG.
The output screen is summarized as shown in FIG.

The conventional e-mail display device displays a list screen as shown in FIG. 13 in which a date, a sender, and a title are extracted and enumerated from the e-mail data A1 to A4 in FIG.
On this screen, you can know who sent the email and when, but it does not include information about the content of the conversation. In order for the user to understand the contents of the conversation, it is necessary to sequentially refer to the e-mail data A1 to A6, and in a situation where a large amount of e-mails arrive daily, the user is forced to perform complicated operations.

On the other hand, in the output screen shown in B5 of FIG. 12, the new input part is mainly shown by the summarization method in which the redundancy is deleted, and only the summarization screen shows who made what. You can fully understand the flow of the story from the information. In this way, a list screen that is much easier to understand than conventional e-mail display devices can be provided,
The conversation contents can be easily grasped, and the amount of operation for referring to the contents can be significantly reduced.

The e-mail data to be presented on the summary screen is dynamically extracted according to a user operation. By specifying the range to be summarized by the user, for example, to summarize only e-mail from a specific person,
It is also possible to perform a summary that is different from the flow of a normal conversation, and it is possible to generate a summary screen that reflects the user's intention.

Since the generation of the summary screen is realized by deleting the redundancy of the combined e-mail data, there is no need to prepare data other than the e-mail data, and such a preparation is made in advance. Summary data is not affected by other data. Also, as a means for summarizing, a mail structure summarizing means 9 for judging the characteristics of the entire combined e-mail data, a quoted partial summarizing means 8 for judging local characteristics in the combined e-mail data, In addition to the above, by providing the standard partial summarizing means 7 for judging characteristics in a specific range specified by the user,
A flexible summary that can reflect the user's intention without using additional information is possible. In addition, since redundancy judgment is automatically made without altering the original e-mail data in the case where certain conditions are satisfied, it is necessary for the user to perform operations such as correction on individual e-mail data. And various summarization methods can be provided simply by changing the conditions.

As described above, in the electronic mail display device according to the first embodiment, the mail extraction / combination means 6
Stores the e-mail data that matches the extraction condition
Read from and combined. The standardized partial summarizing means 7 deletes a redundant part common to the electronic mail data among the combined electronic mail data among the electronic mail data that meets the standard partial summary condition. The cited-part summarizing means 8 deletes a part that satisfies the cited-part summarization condition among the redundant parts common to the plurality of e-mail data in the combined e-mail data. The mail structure summarizing means 9 deletes a redundant portion common to the entire combined e-mail data from the data structure of the e-mail meeting the structure summarization condition. further,
The operation of these means is modified by the processing means 3 in response to a user input.

With these means, the electronic mail display device according to the first embodiment can perform dynamic grouping according to the user's intention by combining the electronic mail data. In addition, for example, it is possible to provide a display with high browsability in which partial redundancy has been eliminated, such as comparing the mails of the same sender and deleting the signature part. Furthermore, it is possible to provide a high-visibility display that summarizes by judging whether or not it is redundant regardless of the presence or absence of a quotation mark. Furthermore, by performing summarization according to the data structure of a standard e-mail, it is possible to always provide high-level display without preparing a shortened character string in advance. As a result, it is possible to solve the problem of the conventional e-mail display device and provide an e-mail environment that is easy to understand and has good operability.

In the first embodiment, the configuration shown in FIG. 1 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The mail extracting / combining means 6, the standard partial summarizing means 7, the quoted partial summarizing means 8, Even if each of the mail structure summarizing means 9 is used alone or in any combination thereof, the effect of each means can be obtained. The same effect can be expected even if the order of the means for summarizing is changed. For example, when the mail structure summarizing means 9 receives the e-mail data from the mail extracting / combining means 6 and outputs the result to the fixed part summarizing means 7, the part deleted by the mail structure summarizing means 9 is fixed by the fixed part summarizing means 7. Although it cannot be used as a partial summary condition, the same effect is obtained except for that point.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 14, an electronic mail display device according to a second embodiment of the present invention comprises a display unit 1, an input unit 2, a processing unit 3, a communication unit 4, a storage unit 5, and a mail extraction connection unit. 6, a data processing device 100 equipped with a standard partial summarizing means 7, a quoted partial summarizing means 8, a mail structure summarizing means 9, and a state memory 10, and a recording medium 200 for recording an electronic mail display program. The recording medium 200 includes a magnetic disk, a semiconductor memory,
Other recording media may be used.

In the thus configured e-mail display device according to the second embodiment, the e-mail display program is read from the recording medium 200 into the data processing device 100, and the operation of the data processing device 100 is displayed on the display means. 1, input means 2, processing means 3, communication means 4, accumulating means 5, mail extracting and combining means 6, fixed partial summarizing means 7, quoted partial summarizing means 8, mail structure summarizing means 9, and state memory 10
To control. The detailed operation of each means is exactly the same as that of the electronic mail display device according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 12, and therefore the detailed description is omitted.

[0070]

As described above, the electronic mail display device of the present invention has a means for deleting redundant data common to a plurality of electronic mails and combining the whole data, so that the electronic mail display device can be significantly visually recognized as compared with the conventional electronic mail display device. Operability and operability can be improved. Specifically, the following effects are obtained.

The electronic mail display device of the present invention enables dynamic grouping according to the user's intention by combining the electronic mail data. Also, for example, comparing the same sender's email and deleting the signature part,
It is possible to provide a display with a high level of listing that has eliminated partial redundancy. Furthermore, it is possible to provide a high-visibility display that summarizes by judging whether or not it is redundant regardless of the presence or absence of a quotation mark. Furthermore, by performing summarization according to the data structure of a standard e-mail, it is possible to always provide high-level display without preparing a shortened character string in advance. This has the effect of solving the problem of the conventional e-mail display device and providing an e-mail environment that is easy to understand and has good operability.

In the screen of the output result, the new input portion is mainly shown by the summarization method in which the redundancy has been deleted. With this summarization screen alone, the flow of the talk is sufficient based on information such as who spoke what and what. Can be grasped. in this way,
Since it is possible to provide a list screen that is much easier to understand than the conventional e-mail display device, it is possible to easily understand the conversation contents and to greatly reduce the operation amount for referring to the contents.

Further, the e-mail data to be presented on the summary screen is dynamically extracted according to a user operation. By specifying the range to be summarized by the user, it is possible to summarize different from the normal conversation flow, for example, to summarize only mail from a specific person, reflecting the user's intention There is an effect that it is possible to generate a modified screen.

Furthermore, since the generation of the summary screen is realized by deleting the redundancy of the combined e-mail data, there is no need to prepare any data other than the e-mail data. The effect is that the summary result is not affected by other data that is prepared. In addition, as means for summarizing, a mail structure summarizing means for judging characteristics of the entire combined e-mail data, a quoted partial summarizing means for judging local characteristics in the merged e-mail data, and Providing a standard partial summarizing means for judging features in a specific range designated by a user has an effect that a flexible summarization that can reflect a user's intention can be performed without using other information. In addition, since redundancy judgment is automatically made without altering the original e-mail data in the case where certain conditions are satisfied, it is necessary for the user to perform operations such as correction on individual e-mail data. There is an effect that various summarization methods can be provided only by changing conditions.

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FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an e-mail display device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of the electronic mail display device according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation of a processing unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the mail extraction and combination means in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the fixed-form partial summarizing means in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the cited-part summarizing means in FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the mail structure summarizing means in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of e-mail data in the e-mail display device according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of information held by a state memory in FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of output data of a mail extracting / combining unit and a fixed-part partial summarizing unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of output data of the quoted part summarizing means and the mail structure summarizing means in FIG.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of an output screen in the electronic mail display device according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a list screen in a conventional electronic mail display device.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an electronic mail display device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

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 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 display means 2 input means 3 processing means 4 communication means 5 storage means 6 mail extraction and coupling means 7 fixed section summarization means 8 quoted section summarization means 9 mail structure summarization means 10 state memory 100 data processing device 200 recording medium

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Claims (10)

[Claims] A display unit for displaying data; an input unit for detecting a user input; a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device; a storage unit for storing data; Processing for creating new e-mail data, transmitting / receiving e-mail data via the communication means, storing / reading e-mail data to / from the storage means, and displaying e-mail data on the display means in response to user input Means for holding an extraction condition of e-mail data to be displayed on said display means, and an e-mail obtained by reading e-mail data matching said extraction conditions from said storage means and combining them. A mail extracting / combining means for outputting data, wherein the processing means performs processing in response to a user input. An e-mail display device having a function of modifying the contents of the state memory according to the condition. 2. The state memory holds a condition for summarizing the structure of e-mail data to be displayed on the display means. 2. The electronic mail display device according to claim 1, further comprising mail structure summarizing means for outputting electronic mail data from which common redundant portions have been deleted. 3. The state memory holds a fixed partial summary condition of the electronic mail data to be displayed on the display means, and the electronic mail data which matches the fixed partial summary condition of each of the combined electronic mail data. 3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a standard partial summarizing means for outputting e-mail data from which common redundant portions have been deleted.
The e-mail display device according to the above. 4. The state memory holds a condition for summarizing quoted parts of e-mail data to be displayed on the display means, and among the redundant parts common to a plurality of e-mail data of each combined e-mail data. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a cited-part summarizing unit that outputs e-mail data in which a part matching the cited-part summarization condition is deleted.
The electronic mail display device according to claim 2 or 3. 5. A combined mail generating step of reading out electronic mail data that matches an extraction condition and outputting combined electronic mail data, and an electronic mail that matches a fixed partial summary condition among the combined electronic mail data. A standardized partial summarization step of outputting e-mail data in which redundant portions common to the data have been deleted, and a citation partial summarization condition among the redundant portions common to a plurality of e-mail data of each combined e-mail data. A cited-part summarization step of outputting the e-mail data from which the matching part has been deleted, and an e-mail in which a redundant part common to each of the combined e-mail data in the e-mail data structure that matches the structure summarization condition has been deleted. A mail structure summarization step for outputting mail data and a summary mail for displaying the summarized email data And a display step. 6. A computer, comprising: display means for displaying data; input means for detecting user input; communication means for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device; storage means for storing data; Generating new e-mail data, transmitting / receiving e-mail data via the communication means, storing / reading e-mail data to / from the storage means, and displaying e-mail data on the display means Processing means for performing
A state memory for storing an extraction condition of the e-mail data to be displayed on the display unit, and a mail extraction and combination unit for reading out the e-mail data matching the extraction condition from the storage unit and outputting the combined e-mail data; A recording medium on which a program for causing a program to be recorded is recorded. 7. A computer, comprising: a display unit for displaying data; an input unit for detecting a user input; a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device; a storage unit for storing data; Generating new e-mail data, transmitting / receiving e-mail data via the communication means, storing / reading e-mail data to / from the storage means, and displaying the e-mail data on the display means Processing means for performing
A state memory for storing extraction conditions and structure summary conditions for e-mail data to be displayed on the display means, and e-mail extraction for reading out e-mail data meeting the extraction conditions from the storage means and outputting combined e-mail data Combining means for functioning as a mail structure summarizing means for outputting e-mail data in which a redundant part common to each combined e-mail data is deleted from the data structure of the e-mail meeting the structure summarizing condition A recording medium on which a program is recorded. 8. A computer, comprising: display means for displaying data; input means for detecting a user input; communication means for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device; storage means for storing data; Generating new e-mail data, transmitting / receiving e-mail data via the communication means, storing / reading e-mail data to / from the storage means, and displaying e-mail data on the display means Processing means for performing
A state memory for storing extraction conditions and fixed partial summary conditions for e-mail data to be displayed on the display means, and e-mail for reading out e-mail data matching the extraction conditions from the storage means and outputting combined e-mail data Extracting and combining means for functioning as a standard partial summarizing means for outputting e-mail data in which redundant portions common to the e-mail data matching the standard partial summarizing condition are deleted from the combined e-mail data. A recording medium on which a program is recorded. 9. A computer, comprising: display means for displaying data; input means for detecting a user input; communication means for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device; storage means for storing data; Generating new e-mail data, transmitting / receiving e-mail data via the communication means, storing / reading e-mail data to / from the storage means, and displaying the e-mail data on the display means Processing means for performing
A state memory for storing the extraction condition and the quoted partial summary condition of the e-mail data to be displayed on the display means, and a mail for reading out the e-mail data matching the extraction condition from the storage means and outputting the combined e-mail data Extracting and combining means, and citing part summarizing means for outputting e-mail data in which a part that meets the cited part summarizing condition among redundant parts common to a plurality of e-mail data of each of the combined e-mail data is deleted. A recording medium on which a program for functioning is recorded. 10. A display device for displaying data on a computer, an input device for detecting a user input, a communication device for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device, a storage device for storing data, and the input device. Generating new e-mail data, transmitting / receiving e-mail data via the communication means, storing / reading e-mail data to / from the storage means, and displaying e-mail data on the display means And a state memory for storing extraction conditions, standard partial summary conditions, quoted partial summary conditions, and structural summary conditions for e-mail data to be displayed on the display means, and e-mail data matching the extraction conditions. A mail extracting / combining means for reading out from the storage means and outputting the combined e-mail data; Means for outputting e-mail data in which redundant portions common to e-mail data meeting the above-mentioned e-mail data satisfying the above-mentioned e-mail data are removed, and a plurality of e-mails of each of the combined e-mail data. A cited-part summarization unit that outputs e-mail data in which a part that matches the cited-part summary condition among redundant parts common to the mail data is deleted; A recording medium for recording a program for functioning as a mail structure summarizing means for outputting e-mail data in which a redundant portion common to each e-mail data is deleted.