JP2001109681A - Communication equipment for moving object and schedule method for electronic mail therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem such as disability in the realization of a schedule function inless schedule data contents are inputted to electronic mail since schedule data are extracted from the electronic mail conventionally. SOLUTION: A schedule attribute A is added to a receiving memory A by a schedule attribute adder 42. Concerning the receiving memory A to which the schedule attribute A is added, schedule time is monitored on an electronic mail display 43 for schedule time. At the time of the schedule attribute A added to the receiving memory A, the electronic mail display 43 for schedule time displays electronic mail on a display part 8. When there is input showing the confirmation of display from a keyboard 6 to a central processing circuit 41, a memory area mover 44 moves the receiving memory A to a waste-scheduled memory area 93. At such a time, the schedule attribute A is erased.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile communication device and a method for scheduling an electronic mail thereof, and more particularly to a mobile communication device such as a mobile telephone for transmitting and receiving an electronic mail, and when the electronic mail is required and at any time. The present invention relates to a method of scheduling an e-mail to be displayed sometimes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Hitherto, there has been known a mobile communication device capable of extracting and managing information relating to a schedule from input information to reduce a burden on a user's operation (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2).
No. 40818).

This conventional mobile communication device includes a database for storing schedule data, a receiving means for receiving an electronic mail, an analyzing means for analyzing the contents of the received electronic mail, and a schedule-related item based on the analysis result. An extraction unit for extracting, and a unit for registering, in a database, items extracted by the extraction unit as a schedule.

In the mobile communication device having the above configuration, for example, the content of a document received by e-mail is analyzed, and "2.
The temporal concept of “Month 22”, “13:30” and “15:00” is found and analyzed as schedule data, and a sentence related to this concept “Both from 13:30 to 15:00 on February 22 B We plan to hold a briefing on the patent system in the conference room. ”It will be possible to link time-related actions to schedules.

Further, the analyzed time concept is compared with the current time, and if the time is in the future, the action is registered in a schedule, and if the description is about a past time, the action is discarded without registering in the schedule. Or as a record of past events, such as a personal database, registered as a type of information other than the schedule.

The comprehension unit analyzes information input from outside, for example, keyboard input, voice input, e-mail, facsimile, news information, etc., and the system still knows the words in the text. If you discover a missing word (word, concept, etc.) or a plan that you have never executed, if the word or plan is not urgent, learn by finding information about the word or plan in sequence. And store it as knowledge in the knowledge base.

[0007]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional mobile communication device, the schedule data is extracted from the e-mail. Therefore, if the contents of the schedule data are not input to the e-mail, the e-mail Cannot be realized when necessary or at any time.

[0008] The present invention has been made in view of the above points,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile communication device capable of realizing a schedule function even when the content of schedule data is not input to an electronic mail and a method of scheduling the electronic mail.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, a mobile communication device of the present invention is capable of communicating with a partner terminal via a base station and transmitting and receiving e-mail. In the mobile communication device, a memory for storing at least the received e-mail and the transmitted e-mail, a display unit for displaying the e-mail, a clock for counting the date and time, and the received e-mail stored in the memory And any of the sent emails,
Editing and adding means for editing and adding a schedule attribute including at least one of a date and a time, and writing the email with the schedule attribute added to a memory; and a schedule attribute and a schedule attribute of the email stored in the memory. Check the date or time of the corresponding clock,
When the schedule attribute and the date or time of the clock corresponding to the schedule attribute match, display control means for displaying an electronic mail to which the matched schedule attribute is added on the display unit, and display control by the display control means. Moving means for moving the electronic mail from the area where the memory is stored to the memory area to be discarded.

According to the present invention, a schedule attribute including at least one of a date and a time is edited and added to an arbitrary e-mail among the received e-mail and the transmitted e-mail stored in the memory, and the schedule attribute is added. When at least one of the date and time matches at least one of the current date and time of the clock, the e-mail can be displayed.

Further, according to the present invention, when an electronic mail having a schedule attribute in which the date or time of the clock matches by the display control means is displayed on the display unit, the display is notified by one or both of sound and light. It is desirable to further have a notifying means to prevent forgetting to see the display.

Further, in the mobile communication device of the present invention, after the display-controlled e-mail is displayed, the deletion means for deleting the displayed e-mail from the area stored in the memory by pressing any key is moved. A feature is provided in place of the means. According to the present invention, the e-mail displayed with the date and time of the added schedule attribute can be deleted after the display.

Further, in order to achieve the above object, the electronic mail scheduling method of the present invention is a mobile communication device capable of communicating with a partner terminal via a base station and capable of transmitting and receiving electronic mail. In the e-mail scheduling method according to the above, a schedule attribute including at least one of a date and a time is edited and added to an arbitrary e-mail of the received e-mail and the transmitted e-mail stored in the memory, and the schedule attribute is added. A first step of writing the added e-mail to the memory, collating the schedule attribute of the e-mail stored in the memory with the current date or time of the clock corresponding to the schedule attribute, and corresponding to the schedule attribute and the schedule attribute When the clock date or time matches, the matching schedule attribute is added. A second step of displaying the present e-mail on the display unit, and a third step of moving the displayed e-mail from the area stored in the memory to the memory area to be discarded. .

According to the present invention, a schedule attribute including at least one of a date and a time is edited and added to an arbitrary e-mail among the received e-mail and the transmitted e-mail stored in the memory. When at least one of the date and time matches at least one of the current date and time of the clock, the e-mail can be displayed.

[0015]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a mobile communication device according to the present invention. A mobile communication device shown in FIG. 1 is a mobile terminal that communicates with a partner terminal via a base station (not shown), and a radio unit 2 to which an antenna 1 is connected is connected to a central processing unit via a baseband unit 3. 4 is connected.

The central processing unit 4 includes a central processing circuit 41 which operates under program control, and a schedule attribute adding unit 42.
, A schedule time e-mail display 43, and a memory area mover 44. The central processing circuit 41 includes a clock 5, a keyboard 6, an ID-ROM 7,
The display unit 8 and the memory 9 are connected. The memory 9
It is composed of a transmitted memory area 91 for e-mail, a receiving memory area 92, a memory area 93 to be discarded, and a general-purpose memory area 94.

The antenna 1 takes in an electromagnetic wave transmitted from a base station (not shown) as electric power and transmits it to the radio unit 2. The wireless unit 2 amplifies the power (received signal) input from the antenna 1, performs demodulation, and transmits the demodulated power to the baseband unit 3. The baseband unit 3 converts the demodulated signal input from the radio unit 2 into a digital signal that can be understood by the central processing circuit 41 and outputs the digital signal to the central processing circuit 41. Further, the baseband unit 3 makes the signal transmitted from the central processing circuit 41 in a modulatable state and transmits the signal to the radio unit 2. The radio unit 2 modulates and amplifies the signal transmitted from the baseband unit 3 and radiates it as electromagnetic waves to a base station (not shown) via the antenna 1.

The clock 5 counts the date and time, and always holds the current date and time. The time held by the clock 5 can be read and written from the central processing circuit 41. The keyboard 6 has a structure for the user to input a will, and includes, for example, a group of buttons. Here, keyboard 6
Are input to the central processing circuit 41. The ID-ROM 7 stores a unique identification pattern (I
Read only memory (ROM) holding D)
It is. The display unit 8 performs display according to a signal instructed from the central processing circuit 41.

The central processing circuit 41 includes a unique identification signal included in the received signal input from the antenna 1 via the radio unit 2 and the baseband unit 3 and a unique identification of the own station stored in the ID-ROM 7. The pattern (ID) is collated to determine whether the received signal is a signal addressed to the own station.

The memory 9 can read and write the operation result of the central processing circuit 41. The transmitted memory area 91 is an area for holding a message transmitted by e-mail. The reception memory area 92 is an area for holding a message received by e-mail, the discarded memory area 93 is an area for holding an e-mail that may be discarded, and the general-purpose memory area 94 is a central processing circuit. 41
Are the transmitted memory area 91 and the received memory area 9 described above.
2. This is an area for storing necessary operation results other than the memory 93 to be discarded.

The schedule attribute adder 42 has a function of adding a schedule attribute to the e-mail held in the transmitted memory area 91 or the received memory area 92. The e-mail display 43 of the schedule time
The date and time of the clock 5 are compared with the schedule attributes of the transmitted memory and the received memory held in the transmitted memory area 91 and the received memory area 92, and the date and time of the schedule match the date and time of the clock 5. In this case, a function of outputting a transmitted memory or a received memory having the schedule attribute to the display unit 8 is provided. Schedule matching does not have to match all dates and times,
For example, the operation can be performed even when only the time matches.

The memory area mover 44 discards the transmitted memory indicated by the schedule attribute of the transmitted memory area 91 and the received memory indicated by the schedule attribute of the received memory area 92.
3 has a function that can be moved or deleted.

The general operation of this embodiment will be described. A radio wave transmitted from a base station (not shown) is received by the antenna 1 and amplified by the radio unit 2 as a received signal.
The demodulated signal is processed by the central processing circuit 41 in the baseband unit 3.
Is converted to a code that can be understood by. When the received radio wave includes an electronic mail, the central processing circuit 41 stores the electronic mail in, for example, the reception memory A of the reception memory area 92. At this point, no schedule attribute has been added to the saved e-mail.

Here, the schedule attribute A is added to the reception memory A by the schedule attribute adder 42, which is a schedule attribute adding means. The schedule time of the reception memory A to which the schedule attribute A is added is monitored by the schedule time e-mail display 43 which is a means for displaying an e-mail at the schedule time.

E-mail display 43 of schedule time
Causes the display unit 8 to display an e-mail when the time of the schedule attribute A added to the reception memory A comes.
When an input from the keyboard 6 indicating that the display has been confirmed is present in the central processing circuit 41, the memory area mover 44
Moves the reception memory A to the memory area 93 to be discarded. At this time, the schedule attribute A is deleted. In this manner, this embodiment enables the display of an e-mail when the scheduled time has come, and allows the e-mail to be moved to another memory area after confirmation.

Next, an embodiment of a method for scheduling an e-mail in the mobile communication device of FIG. 1 will be described in detail with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 2, 3, 4 and 5.

First, FIGS. 1 and 2 will be described. The central processing circuit 41 in the central processing unit 4 stores electronic data stored in an arbitrary transmitted memory in the transmitted memory area 91 or an arbitrary received memory in the received memory area 92 so that the user can read the e-mail. The mail is displayed on the display unit 8 (step A01 in FIG. 2).

Next, the central processing circuit 41 causes the schedule attribute adding unit 42 to add a schedule attribute to the above-mentioned electronic mail currently displayed on the display unit 8 (FIG. 2).
Step A02). Further, the central processing circuit 41 gives an instruction to the electronic mail display 43 of the schedule time,
The date and time of the clock 5 are compared with the schedule attribute added in step A02, and if at least one of the date and time of the schedule matches one or both of the date and time of the clock 5, the transmitted data having the schedule attribute is transmitted. The e-mail in the memory or the reception memory is displayed on the display unit 8 (step A03 in FIG. 2).

Finally, when any key is pressed, the central processing circuit 41 gives an instruction to the memory area mover 44, and stores the e-mail memory area displayed in step A03 in the to-be-discarded memory area 93. It is moved (step A04 in FIG. 2).

Next, the above-mentioned step A0 will be described using a specific example.
2. Each of step A03 and step A04 will be described in detail. In the schedule attribute adding process in step A02, the e-mail displayed in step A01 is the e-mail held in reception memory A in reception memory area 92 in FIG. To describe an example of editing a schedule for displaying an e-mail on the display unit 8, first, a user edits a date and a time using the keyboard 6 (step B01 in FIG. 3). At this time, it is possible to edit the date and time considered necessary from the content of the displayed e-mail.

The date and time edited here are added as schedule attributes A to the reception memory A by the schedule attribute adder 42 (step B02 in FIG. 3).
Next, the central processing circuit 41 determines whether or not the e-mail to which the attribute is added is a memory in which the reception memory has been transmitted (step B03 in FIG. 3). It is stored as schedule attribute A corresponding to A (step B05 in FIG. 3).

If the e-mail to which the attribute is added in step B02 is a transmitted memory, the e-mail is stored in the transmitted memory area 91 in the schedule attribute corresponding to the transmitted memory (steps B03 and B04 in FIG. 3).

Next, the processing step of displaying an e-mail at the scheduled time in step A03 will be described with reference to FIG.
In addition, the electronic mail display 43 of the schedule time indicates that the date and time of the schedule attribute A added to the electronic mail in step B02 in FIG. 3 match the current date and time held by the clock 5. (Step C01 in FIG. 4), and when they match, an e-mail in the receiving memory A having the schedule attribute A is output to the display unit 8 and displayed (Step C02 in FIG. 4). At this time, the sounding of the notification sound and the lighting of the lighting may be performed at the same time.

Next, the memory area moving process in step A04 will be described with reference to FIG.
Monitors whether there is any key operation (step D01 in FIG. 5), and determines the type of e-mail currently displayed on the display unit 8 when there is a key operation (step D02 in FIG. 5). .

If the displayed electronic mail indicates the contents of the transmitted memory area, the memory area mover 44
Moves the displayed e-mail from the transmitted memory area 91 to the to-be-discarded memory area 93 (step D03 in FIG. 5). Here, since the displayed e-mail is the e-mail in the reception memory A, The area mover 44 moves the displayed electronic mail from the reception memory area 92 to the memory area 93 to be discarded (step D0 in FIG. 5).
4). At this time, the sounding of the notification sound may be stopped or the lighting may be turned off at the same time. Then, the central processing circuit 41 deletes the e-mail displayed on the display unit 8 and returns to the standby display screen (step D05 in FIG. 5).

As described above, in this embodiment, the schedule attribute of the edited date and time is added to the e-mail held in the memory 9 and the date and time set in the schedule attribute is reached. Since the e-mail is displayed on the e-mail, the contents of the e-mail can be confirmed without forgetting when necessary even if the contents of the schedule data are not input in the transmitted or received e-mail.

Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a main part of another embodiment of the e-mail scheduling method according to the present invention. In this embodiment, the schedule attribute adding process A02 and the process A03 of displaying an e-mail at the scheduled time are the same processes as those in FIGS. 3 and 4, but the memory area moving process A04 is different from FIG. This is performed according to a flowchart.

Referring to FIG. 6, the central processing circuit 41 shown in FIG.
Monitors whether there is any key operation (step E01), and determines the type of e-mail currently displayed on the display unit 8 in FIG. 1 when there is a key operation (step E01).
02).

If the displayed electronic mail indicates the contents of the transmitted memory, the displayed electronic mail is directly deleted from the transmitted memory area 91 (step E0 in FIG. 6).
3). On the other hand, if the displayed e-mail indicates the contents of the reception memory, the displayed e-mail is directly deleted from the reception memory area 92 (step E0 in FIG. 6).
4).

In this embodiment, after confirming the e-mail displayed by the added schedule attribute,
Since the electronic mail is automatically deleted, the unnecessary e-mail can be automatically deleted, and as a result, the consumption of the memory area can be reduced.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, it has been described that the schedule attribute is edited according to the contents of the e-mail displayed on the display unit 8. The schedule attribute of an arbitrary date and time may be edited without being displayed on the display 8. At this time, the type of the e-mail may or may not be set.

Although the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 does not have the function of transmitting and receiving a voice signal, the present invention can be applied to a mobile telephone having a function of transmitting and receiving a voice signal.
The present invention can be widely applied to mobile communication devices generally having a data transmission / reception function regardless of the presence / absence of a voice signal transmission / reception function.

[0043]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A schedule attribute including at least one of a date and a time is edited and added to any of the received e-mail and the transmitted e-mail stored in the memory, and at least one of the date and the time of the schedule attribute is added. When the date matches at least one of the current date and time of the clock, the e-mail is displayed. Therefore, even if the contents of the schedule data are not entered in the transmitted or received e-mail, You can check the contents of the e-mail without forgetting.

Further, according to the present invention, after confirming the e-mail displayed according to the added schedule attribute, the e-mail which is no longer needed is automatically moved to another memory area or deleted. Since the data is automatically deleted, the consumption of the memory area can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a mobile communication device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the method of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a schedule attribute adding process in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of an electronic mail display process at a scheduled time in FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a memory area moving process in FIG. 2;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a main part of another embodiment of the method of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 antenna 2 radio unit 3 baseband unit 4 central processing unit 5 clock 6 keyboard 7 ID-ROM 8 display unit 9 memory 41 central processing circuit 42 schedule attribute adder 43 electronic mail display of schedule time 44 memory area mover 91 transmission Memory area 92 Reception memory area 93 Memory area to be discarded 94 General-purpose memory area

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A mobile communication device capable of communicating with a partner terminal via a base station and capable of transmitting and receiving e-mail, wherein a memory storing at least a received e-mail and a transmitted e-mail, respectively. A display unit for displaying the e-mail; a clock for counting the date and time; and an arbitrary e-mail among the received e-mail and the transmitted e-mail stored in the memory; Editing and adding means for editing and adding a schedule attribute including one of them and writing the electronic mail to which the schedule attribute is added to the memory; the schedule attribute and the schedule attribute of the electronic mail stored in the memory; Collating the date or time of the clock corresponding to the schedule attribute and corresponding to the schedule attribute A display control unit for displaying, on the display unit, the electronic mail to which the matched schedule attribute is added when the date or time of the clock matches, Moving means for moving the mail from the area where the memory is stored to the memory area to be discarded. 2. When the display control means causes the display unit to display the electronic mail having the schedule attribute in which the date or time of the clock coincides, the display is notified by one or both of sound and light. The mobile communication device according to claim 1, further comprising a notification unit. 3. After the electronic mail display controlled by the display control means is displayed, the delete means for deleting the electronic mail being displayed from the area stored in the memory by pressing any key is moved. The mobile communication device according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device is provided in place of the means. 4. A method for scheduling an electronic mail in a mobile communication device capable of communicating with a partner terminal via a base station and capable of transmitting and receiving an electronic mail, comprising the steps of: Edit and add schedule attributes including at least one of date and time to any of the sent emails,
A first step of writing the electronic mail with the schedule attribute added to the memory; collating the schedule attribute of the electronic mail stored in the memory with a current date or time of a clock corresponding to the schedule attribute; And when the schedule attribute and the date or time of the clock corresponding to the schedule attribute match, displaying the electronic mail to which the matched schedule attribute is added on a display unit; Moving the displayed e-mail from the area stored in the memory to the memory area to be discarded. 5. The method according to claim 5, wherein when displaying the electronic mail having the schedule attribute in which the date and / or time of the clock coincide with each other, the display unit notifies the display using one or both of sound and light. 5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the e-mail is scheduled. 6. In the third step, instead of moving from the area stored in the memory to the memory area to be discarded, after displaying the electronic mail whose display is controlled, the memory is depressed by pressing any key. 5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the e-mail is deleted from the area storing the e-mail.