JP2003345725A - Portable terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable terminal by which a user can easily eliminate mail that the user does not want to receive by eliminating the inconvenience of manually eliminating the mail that the user does not want to receive. <P>SOLUTION: This portable terminal consists of an operating part 1, an indicator 2 for performing various display in receiving mail or the like, a central processing unit 3, a speaker 4 that rings when mail is received or the like, a memory 5 and a radio part 6. The central processing unit 3 and the memory 5 retrieves a preset keyword in received mail, and the received mail with the keyword existing therein is automatically eliminated. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a portable terminal having a mail sending / receiving function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Portable terminals having a mail transmission / reception function have become widespread. The conventional mobile terminal has a function of rejecting reception of e-mails (spam or prank e-mails) that the user does not want to receive by making settings on the network side.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional portable terminal, even though it is possible to reject reception to some extent, since there is a limit on the limit on the network side, unnecessary mail that passes through the terminal is restricted. Had been received. If the received mail exceeds the capacity of the storage area in the mobile terminal, the oldest mail will be deleted, so if you receive many mails you do not want to receive, the old mail you need will also be deleted. I was For this purpose, the user has to check the contents of the received mail, determine whether the mail is unnecessary, and manually delete the unnecessary mail.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the inconvenience of manually deleting a mail that a user does not want to receive and to provide a portable terminal that can easily delete a mail that the user does not want to receive.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has a structure as described in the claims.

That is, the portable terminal according to the present invention is characterized in that the portable terminal has means for performing a search for a preset keyword in the received mail and automatically deleting the received mail in which the keyword exists.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. In the drawings described below, those having the same functions are denoted by the same reference numerals, and repeated description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1 is an operation unit, 2 is a display unit, 3 is a central processing unit, 4 is a speaker, 5 is a memory, and 6 is a wireless unit.

FIG. 2 is a schematic external front view of the portable terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numeral 21 denotes a display screen of the display unit 2 in FIG. 1, 22 denotes a numeric keypad including an asterisk (*) key and a sharp (#) key, 23 denotes a cursor key, and 24 denotes an enter key.

The portable terminal according to the present embodiment has an operation unit 1,
A display 2 for performing various displays when receiving mail, a central processing unit 3, and a speaker 4 for sounding when receiving mail.
, A memory (storage unit) 5 and a wireless unit 6.

FIG. 3 is a processing flowchart of the portable terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, a flow of processing in the portable terminal according to the present embodiment will be described.

First, when a mail is received (S1), it is determined whether or not automatic deletion of the mail is set (S1).
2). If the automatic mail deletion is set, it is determined whether or not the keyword set in advance by the user is included in the received mail (S3). If the automatic mail deletion is not set, this received mail is stored in the memory (5 in FIG. 1) (S5).

If the keyword is included in the received mail, the received mail is deleted (S4). If the keyword is not included in the received mail, the received mail is stored in the memory (5 in FIG. 1) (S5).

This flow will be described in more detail later.

Table 1 is a table showing an example of an installation value table in the portable terminal of the present embodiment.

[0019]

[Table 1] Here, when the automatic mail deletion is ON, “advertisement” is set as a keyword.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operation procedure of the portable terminal and an example of a display screen according to the embodiment of the present invention (in a case where the automatic mail deletion setting is ON).

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an operation procedure of the portable terminal and an example of a display screen according to the embodiment of the present invention (in a case where the automatic deletion setting of the mail is off).

Reference numeral 25 denotes a cursor.

(1) First, when an e-mail including a keyword set by the user in advance is received, the operation unit 1 sets whether or not to automatically delete the e-mail.
(FIGS. 1 and 2). Setting of automatic deletion of mail First, in FIG. 4A, use the cursor key 23 (FIG. 2).
To move the cursor 25 to "3 E-mail automatic deletion setting" on the display screen 21, and press the enter key 24.

Then, a screen shown in FIG. 4B is displayed. To turn on the automatic mail deletion setting, select “1 O
Cursor 25 to "N" and press the enter key 24. Thereby, the setting input by the operation unit 1 is
It is stored in the memory 5 via the central processing unit 3.

When the setting of the automatic deletion of the mail is turned off (OFF), “2” is displayed on the screen of FIG.
The cursor 25 is moved to "OFF" and the enter key 24 is pressed. Then, as shown in FIG. 5 (c), a screen "Email automatic deletion setting turned off" is displayed. Keyword settings To turn on the email automatic deletion setting described above,
When the cursor 25 is moved to "ON" and the enter key 24 is pressed, a screen "Enter a keyword" is displayed as shown in FIG. 4C. The user sets a keyword using the operation unit 1. Here, "advertisement" is set as a keyword. The setting of the keyword “advertisement” input by the operation unit 1 is stored in the memory 5 via the central processing unit 3. Then, FIG.
As shown in (d), a screen "Email automatic deletion setting turned ON" is displayed.

As described above, the setting of the automatic mail deletion is completed. E-mail reception and determination of automatic e-mail deletion setting Next, when the mobile terminal receives an e-mail (S
1) The central processing unit 3 reads the setting value of the above-mentioned automatic deletion of the mail from the memory 5 and determines whether the setting is to automatically delete the mail or not to delete the mail automatically (S2 in FIG. 3). If it is determined in S2 that the mail is not to be automatically deleted, the received mail is stored in the memory 5 as it is (S5). In the keyword search S2, if the setting is such that the mail is automatically deleted, the keyword (here, "advertisement") set by the user is searched in the title and the body of the received mail, and the mail is searched. It is determined whether a keyword is included (S3).

In S3, if the set keyword is not included, the received mail is stored in the memory 5 as it is (S5). If the set keyword is included in the mail deletion S3, the received mail is deleted without being stored in the memory 5 (S4).

As described above, the portable terminal according to the present embodiment performs a search for a preset keyword in a received mail and automatically deletes the received mail in which the keyword exists (a central processing unit). 3, characterized by having a memory 5).

As described above, in the portable terminal of the present embodiment, a search for a preset keyword is performed in a received mail, and the received mail in which the keyword exists is automatically deleted. The trouble of manually deleting the mail is eliminated, and the mail to be stored is hardly deleted.

Although the present invention has been described in detail based on the embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and it is needless to say that various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. It is. For example, in the above-described embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, when a mail is received, the user searches for a keyword set in advance and deletes the received mail including the keyword, but the received mail has accumulated to some extent. In this case, it is also possible to search for a keyword and delete a received mail including the keyword.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Eliminate the hassle of manually deleting unnecessary emails,
Emails that you want to keep are less likely to be deleted.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic external front view of the portable terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a processing flowchart of the portable terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operation procedure and an example of a display screen of the mobile terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention (in a case where automatic deletion setting of mail is on).

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an operation procedure of the mobile terminal and an example of a display screen according to the embodiment of the present invention (in a case where automatic deletion setting of mail is turned off).

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Operation part, 2 ... Display part, 3 ... Central processing unit, 4 ...
Speaker, 5 memory, 6 radio unit, 21 display screen,
Reference numeral 22: numeric keypad, 23: cursor key, 24: enter key, 25: cursor.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A portable terminal, comprising: means for searching for a preset keyword in a received mail and automatically deleting the received mail in which the keyword exists.