JP2003216551A - Portable terminal apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable terminal apparatus capable of automatically classifying, appropriately reporting and/or deleting the received mail based on the setting of an user or the like. <P>SOLUTION: This portable terminal apparatus is provided with a mail reception means, a storage means, a control means and a report means. The storage means stores a report condition information which shows a report condition outputting a report when receiving the mail. The control means outputs the report from the report means when the mail received by the mail reception means satisfies the report condition shown in the report condition information stored in the storage means. The portable terminal apparatus is provided with the mail reception means, the storage means and the control means. The storage means stores a deletion condition information which shows a deletion condition deleting the received mail. The control means deletes the received mail when the mail received by the mail reception means satisfies the deletion condition shown in the deletion condition information stored in the storage means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile terminal device equipped with mail receiving means.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, electronic mail (hereinafter referred to as "mail" unless otherwise specified) using a portable terminal device has been frequently used as a means for transmitting information. In the mail reception of the mobile terminal device, if the mobile terminal device is in a receivable state, the mail is automatically received without the user's operation. Further, when the mobile terminal device receives the mail, it notifies the user by voice, light, vibration, or the like. For this reason, the user switches the reporting means (voice, light, vibration, etc.) or stops reporting according to the surrounding situation.

[0003]

When the user switches or stops the notification means of the mobile terminal device, no matter what kind of mail is received, the notification means will be applied to all the received mails. It is switched or stopped. For this reason, for example, if the notification means is stopped, the notification may not be output even if it is an important or urgent mail, and it may be delayed for the user to notice that the important or urgent mail has been received. . In recent years,
There is a tendency that the number of emails (spam mails, etc.) sent even though the user does not want to receive the emails increases, and the opportunity for the user to stop the notification of the email reception increases. Also, when the user receives unsolicited e-mail, etc., he / she must operate the mobile terminal device to delete the unsolicited e-mail etc. (Since the storage capacity is limited, the capacity to store new e-mail should be reduced. It is very troublesome because it needs to be secured. The present invention was devised in view of the above point, and is a mobile terminal capable of automatically classifying received mails based on the settings of users and the like and appropriately notifying and / or deleting them. An object is to provide a device.

[0004]

As a means for solving the above-mentioned problems, the first invention of the present invention is a portable terminal device as described in claim 1. By using the mobile terminal device according to the first aspect, the user of the mobile terminal device can specify the e-mail that the user wants to output the notification when receiving by setting the notification conditions in advance. For this reason, the mobile terminal device can automatically classify the received emails based on the settings of the user or the like, and appropriately report the emails.

A second aspect of the present invention is a mobile terminal device as set forth in claim 2. If the mobile terminal device according to claim 2 is used, a user of the mobile terminal device can:
By specifying at least one of the sender information, the reception time information, and the predetermined character string information, the reporting condition can be set appropriately.

A third aspect of the present invention is a mobile terminal device as set forth in claim 3. If the mobile terminal device according to claim 3 is used, a user of the mobile terminal device can:
By setting deletion conditions in advance, when received, it is possible to automatically specify the mail to be deleted.
Therefore, the mobile terminal device can automatically classify the received mails and appropriately delete the mails based on the settings of the user or the like.

A fourth invention of the present invention is a portable terminal device as set forth in claim 4. If the mobile terminal device according to claim 4 is used, a user of the mobile terminal device can:
By specifying at least one of the source information, the reception time information, and the predetermined character string information, the deletion condition can be set appropriately.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an embodiment in which the mobile terminal device of the present invention is applied to a mobile phone. The mobile terminal device 1 is composed of the components described below. The antenna 20 wirelessly transmits and receives signals. The reception signal received by the antenna 20 is demodulated by the modulation / demodulation means 30 and supplied to the control means 10. A mail, a voice signal, or the like is transmitted / received by the antenna 20 and the modulation / demodulation means 30 (mail reception means or the like).
For example, when a mail is received, the received signal supplied to the control means 10 is processed by the control means 10 and output to the display means 80 (LCD or the like). The signal processing program executed by the control means 10 is stored in the storage means 40. The storage means 40 is RAM or Flash.
It is composed of a ROM, etc., and stores various programs (telephone functions, etc.) including the above signal processing programs and data, as well as data unique to the user (information set by the user, transmission / reception by the user). History, etc.) are stored.

The user operates the input means 50 (various operation buttons, etc.) to display the received mail on the display means 8
It can be displayed at 0 and various settings can be made. Further, a notification means 90 (vibrator, lamp, etc.) for notifying the user that the mail has been received is provided. As the reporting means, the voice output means 70a (speaker or the like) can also be used. Further, for example, when the user uses it as a telephone, the received signal received by the antenna 20 is transmitted to the signal conversion means 6 via the control means 10.
Supplied to zero. The signal converting means 60 converts the input received signal into an audio signal and supplies it to the audio output means 70a. The audio output unit 70a outputs audio based on the supplied audio signal. The voice of the user is input from the voice input unit 70b (microphone or the like), and the signal conversion unit 6 is input.
0, the control unit 10, and the modulation / demodulation unit 30 (in this case, modulation), the signal is transmitted from the antenna 20.

When the mobile terminal device 1 is in a mail receivable state (when the power is on and within the service area, etc.), the mobile terminal device 1 is addressed to the mail address set in the mobile terminal device 1 (mail. A mail box corresponding to the address is provided on the mail server or the like),
When an email is sent from a third party, the email is automatically received without any user operation. And, as the user preset, report (voice, light, vibration, etc.)
Is output. For this reason, the user can switch the notification means (voice output, optical output, vibration output, etc.) or make a notification according to the circumstances around him (a place, time, etc., which is not suitable for outputting sound, etc.). It has been stopped. In the conventional mobile terminal device, when the notification is stopped, no matter what kind of mail is received, the notification is stopped. However, as a user, in the case of an important or urgent mail, there is a case where the user wants to output a notification in order to read the mail as soon as possible, and to stop the notification in the case of an email that is not so. In addition, when a mail (spam mail, etc.) that is sent even though you do not want to receive it is received, the user performs an operation to delete the mail and deletes unnecessary mail. Then, it takes a lot of work (because the storage means 40 has a limited capacity, it is necessary to secure a capacity for storing new mail).

Next, FIG. 2 (A) shows an example of report condition information 42 indicating report conditions for automatically classifying received mails based on the settings of users, etc., and appropriately outputting a report. Indicates. The control means 10 outputs the notification only when the mail satisfying the notification condition shown in the notification condition information 42 is received. The notification condition information 42 can be arbitrarily set by the user and stored in the storage means 40. In the example of the notification condition information 42 shown in FIG. 2A, it is composed of a sender address (sender information etc.), a reception time (reception time information etc.) and a designated character string (predetermined character string information etc.). A mail address corresponding to the sender who sent the mail received by the mobile terminal device 1 is set in the "sender address". When the user wants to output a notification when receiving a mail from a predetermined sender, the user sets the mail address corresponding to the sender who wants to be notified in the "sender address". The "reception time" has a "start time" and an "end time", and when a mail is received between the start time and the end time, a notification is output. In the "specified character string", when the received mail (header, subject, body, etc.) includes a predetermined character string, when the notification is desired to be output, the predetermined character string is set. Note that in the example of 42d in FIG. 2A, a notification is output when the mail contains any of the character strings of "important", "urgent", or "urgent".

For example, in the case of the example shown in FIG. 2A, five conditions are set for outputting a notification when a mail is received. [1] The sender's mail address is "aaa@bbb.n"
e. jp ”(42a in FIG. 2A). [2] When received during the time “10:00 to 12:00” (42b in FIG. 2A). [3] The sender's mail address is "ccc@ddd.c
om "and time" 08:00:00 to 21:00 "(42c in FIG. 2A). [4] "Important" or "Urgent" or "Urgent"
If you receive an email containing any of the strings (Fig. 2
42d in (A)). [5] The sender's mail address is "*@*.eeee.c"
o. jp ”(42e in FIG. 2A). In this case, the "*" part indicates the meaning of a wild card indicating that any character string may be used. When receiving the email satisfying at least one of the above five conditions, the mobile terminal device 1 outputs a notification. On the contrary, when a mail that does not satisfy any of the above five conditions is received, the mobile terminal device 1 does not output the notification.

Next, in FIG. 2B, a deletion condition indicating a deletion condition for automatically classifying the received mail based on the setting of the user etc. and appropriately deleting (automatically deleting) the mail. An example of the information 44 is shown. When the control unit 10 receives a mail satisfying the deletion condition indicated by the deletion condition information 44, the control unit 10 automatically deletes the received mail. The deletion condition information 44 is arbitrarily set by the user and stored in the storage means 40.
Can be stored in. In the example of the deletion condition information 44 shown in FIG. 2B, the deletion condition information 44 includes a sender address (sender information etc.), a reception time (reception time information etc.), and a designated character string (predetermined character string information etc.). A mail address corresponding to the sender who sent the mail received by the mobile terminal device 1 is set in the "sender address". When a user receives a mail from a predetermined sender and wants to delete the received mail, the user sets a mail address corresponding to the sender who wants to delete in the "sender address". The "reception time" has a "start time" and an "end time". When a mail is received between the start time and the end time, the received mail is deleted. In the "specified character string", when the received mail (header, subject, body, etc.) contains a predetermined character string, when the user wants to delete the received mail, the predetermined character string is set. In the example of 44d in FIG. 2 (B), mail "Hello" or "you", and it deletes the received e-mail if it contains one of the strings.

For example, in the case of the example shown in FIG. 2B, when a mail is received, five conditions are set for deleting the received mail. [1] The sender's mail address is “zz@yyy.n”
e. jp ”(44a in FIG. 2B). [2] When it is received between the time “22:00 to 05:00” (44b in FIG. 2B). [3] The sender's mail address is "xxx@www.c
om "and time" 19:00 to 07:00 "(44c in FIG. 2B). [4] "Hello" or "you", if you receive an email that contains one of the strings (44d in FIG. 2 (B)). [5] The sender's mail address is "*@*.sss.c"
o. jp ”(44e in FIG. 2B). In this case, the "*" part indicates the meaning of a wild card indicating that any character string may be used. When receiving the email satisfying at least one of the above five conditions, the mobile terminal device 1 deletes the email. On the contrary, when receiving the email that does not satisfy any of the above five conditions, the mobile terminal device 1 stores (saves) the email without deleting it.

Next, using the flowchart shown in FIG. 3, the mobile terminal device 1 automatically classifies the received mails based on the settings of the user, etc., and appropriately reports and / or deletes them. Will be explained. This processing is executed by the control means 10. Upon receiving the mail, the control means 10 reads out the notification condition information 42 from the storage means 40 and refers to it in step S10. And step S2
At 0, it is determined whether the received mail satisfies the notification condition shown in the notification condition information 42. If the notification condition is satisfied (Yes), the process proceeds to step S30, the notification is output from the notification means (voice output, light output, vibration output, etc.), and the process proceeds to step S40. In step S40, the received mail satisfying the notification condition indicated by the notification condition information 42 is stored in the storage means 40.

If the notification condition is not satisfied (No) in step S20, the process proceeds to step S50. Step S5
At 0, the deletion condition information 44 is read from the storage means 40 and referred to. Then, in step S60, it is determined whether the received mail satisfies the deletion condition indicated in the deletion condition information 44. Satisfies the deletion condition (Yes)
In that case, the process proceeds to step S80. In step S80,
The received e-mail that does not satisfy the notification condition shown in the notification condition information 42 and satisfies the deletion condition shown in the deletion condition information 44 is deleted (not stored in the storage unit 40). If the deletion condition is not satisfied (No) in step S60, the process proceeds to step S70. In step S70, the storage means 4 stores the received mail that does not satisfy the notification condition indicated by the notification condition information 42 and does not satisfy the deletion condition indicated by the deletion condition information 44.
It is stored in 0 (in this case, the message is not output).

According to the above description, the mail receiving means (antenna 20, modulation / demodulation means 30, etc.), storage means 40, control means 10, notification means (voice output, optical output, vibration output, etc.) are provided, and storage means is provided. 40 includes notification condition information 42 indicating notification conditions for outputting a notification when an email is received.
And deletion condition information 44 indicating deletion conditions for deleting the received mail. The control means 10 outputs a notification from the notification means when the mail received by the mail reception means is a mail satisfying the notification conditions indicated by the notification condition information 42 stored in the storage means 40. Also,
In the control means 10, the mail received by the mail receiving means is
When the mail satisfies the deletion condition indicated by the deletion condition information 42 stored in the storage unit 40, the received mail is deleted. Further, in the above-described processing, an example of determining both execution / non-execution of notification and execution / non-execution of deletion has been described, but either execution / non-execution of notification or execution / non-execution of deletion It may be configured to determine the execution / non-execution of only one of them.

Next, an example in which the user sets the notification condition information 42 in the mobile terminal device 1 will be described with reference to FIG. For example, if the user has an email address "aaa@bbb.n"
e. When a predetermined operation is performed while receiving a mail from a sender corresponding to “jp” and displaying the mail, a condition selection menu screen 82 is displayed on the mail display screen 82.
a is displayed. When "Set communication conditions" is selected from here, the communication condition setting screen 84 is displayed. in this case,
As the sender address of the communication condition setting screen 84, the address "aaa @" corresponding to the sender of the mail displayed earlier is displayed.
bbb. ne. "jp" is automatically input, and the user can easily set the sender address. Further, the user can input and set arbitrary contents in arbitrary setting items by performing a predetermined operation. In addition, the method of setting the deletion condition information 44 is the same as the notification condition information 42 described above.
Since it is the same as the setting method of, the description thereof will be omitted.

The portable terminal device of the present invention is not limited to the configuration, processing procedure, etc. described in the present embodiment, and various changes, additions and deletions can be made without changing the gist of the present invention. For example, the configuration of the mobile terminal device of the present invention is not limited to that shown in FIG. 1 according to the present embodiment. The notification condition information 42 and the deletion condition information 44 are not limited to the configurations, items, contents, etc. described in the present embodiment, and various configurations, items,
It can be content etc. The operation of the mobile terminal device of the present invention when receiving a mail is not limited to the operation of the flowchart shown in FIG. The method of setting the notification condition information and the like is not limited to the contents described in the present embodiment and the configuration and transition of the screen shown in FIG. 4, and various configurations and the like can be used. Further, the numerical values such as time used in the description of the present embodiment are examples, and the present invention is not limited to these numerical values. The mobile terminal device of the present invention can be applied to various mobile terminal devices such as a mobile phone, a mobile information terminal, a PDA, and a mobile terminal.

[0020]

As described above, when the mobile terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 4 is used, the received mails are automatically classified based on the settings of the user and the like, and the mails are appropriately classified. It can be reported and / or deleted.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an embodiment of a mobile terminal device 1 of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of communication condition information 42 and deletion condition information 44.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure for automatically classifying received emails and appropriately reporting and / or deleting the emails.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of setting notification condition information.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Mobile terminal device 10 Control means 20 antenna 30 Modulation / demodulation means 40 storage means 50 input means 60 Signal conversion means 70a Audio output means (report means, etc.) 70b voice input means 80 display means 90 Notification means

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A mail receiving means, a storage means, a control means, and a reporting means, wherein the storage means stores report condition information indicating a report condition for outputting a report when a mail is received. The means outputs the notification from the notification means when the mail received by the mail receiving means is a mail satisfying the notification conditions indicated in the notification condition information stored in the storage means. Terminal device. 2. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the notification condition information includes sender information indicating a sender of the mail, reception time information indicating a reception time of the mail, and predetermined information included in the mail. A mobile terminal device comprising at least one of predetermined character string information indicating the character string of. 3. A mail receiving means, a storage means, and a control means are provided, wherein the storage means stores deletion condition information indicating deletion conditions for deleting the received mail, and the control means is a mail reception means. A mobile terminal device, wherein when the received mail is a mail that satisfies the deletion condition indicated by the deletion condition information stored in the storage means, the received mail is deleted. 4. The portable terminal device according to claim 3, wherein the deletion condition information includes sender information indicating a sender of the mail, reception time information indicating a reception time of the mail, and predetermined information included in the mail. A mobile terminal device comprising at least one of predetermined character string information indicating the character string of.