JP2005234700A - Cellular telephone device and electronic mail content display method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cellular telephone device and electronic mail (email) content display method that open an important email and display the contents just after the reception when the email is received. <P>SOLUTION: The cellular telephone device has displaying means 42 for displaying the contents of the email, storing means 40 for storing determination conditions for importance determination of the received email, and controlling means 36 for determining the importance of the email according to the determination conditions, and opening the important email and displaying the contents on the displaying means 42 just after the email reception. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile phone device capable of sending and receiving e-mail, and more particularly to a mobile phone device and an e-mail content display method capable of displaying an important e-mail immediately after receiving it.

  As a conventional electronic mail device, the CPU counts the number of unopened received mails stored in the RAM, and if the number is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the first unopened received mail A device that automatically performs unsealing processing from what is received and displays it on a display device is known. (See Patent Document 1 below).

According to this e-mail device, it is supposed that the problem that the contents of the e-mail cannot be transmitted to the recipient when the received e-mail is not easily opened, such as when the e-mail recipient is busy, is supposed. Yes.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-154130

  By the way, in the electronic mail apparatus, the received electronic mail cannot be notified to the recipient until the unopened received mail exceeds a predetermined value, and the content of the received mail is not transmitted to the recipient as usual. For this reason, the recipient misses the contents of the important e-mail, resulting in inconvenience.

  In view of the above circumstances, the present invention provides a mobile phone device and an e-mail content display method that, when receiving an e-mail, open the e-mail of high importance immediately after receiving it and display its contents. With the goal.

  The invention according to claim 1 is a display means for displaying the contents of an electronic mail, a storage means for storing a determination condition for determining the importance of the received electronic mail, and the electronic mail based on the determination condition. And control means for opening the electronic mail with high importance immediately after receiving the electronic mail and displaying the contents on the display means.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the determination condition for determining the importance of the received electronic mail is stored in the storage means. When the e-mail is received, the control means determines the importance of the received e-mail based on the determination condition stored in the storage means, and the high-importance e-mail is opened immediately after receiving and the contents are displayed. Is displayed. As a result, the user can confirm the content of the highly important email immediately after receiving the display means, and does not miss the content of the highly important email.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the mobile phone device according to the first aspect, an e-mail address of a specific person is stored in the storage means, and the control means is an e-mail address of a sender of the e-mail Is determined to match the e-mail address of the specific person stored in the storage means, the e-mail is opened and the content is displayed on the display means.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, the storage means stores the e-mail address of the specific person, and the e-mail address of the specific person stored in the storage means is the e-mail address of the sender of the e-mail. When it is determined by the control means that they match, the received e-mail is opened immediately after reception, and the contents are displayed on the display means. Thereby, the contents of important electronic mail from a specific sender are not missed.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a determination step for causing the control means to determine the importance of the electronic mail based on a determination condition for determining the importance of the received electronic mail, and the importance determined in the determination step. And a control step of opening the high-frequency e-mail immediately after the e-mail is received by the control means and displaying the contents on the display means.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, in the determination step, the importance level of the e-mail is determined by the control means based on the determination condition for determining the importance level of the received e-mail. In the control step, the highly important e-mail discriminated in the discrimination step is opened immediately after the e-mail is received by the control unit, and the contents are displayed on the display unit. As a result, the user can confirm the content of the highly important email immediately after receiving the display means, and does not miss the content of the highly important email.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the electronic mail content display method according to the third aspect, when the electronic mail address of the sender of the electronic mail matches the electronic mail address of a specific person in the determination step, the control means When it is determined, the control means opens the electronic mail by the control means and displays the contents on the display means.

  According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, when it is determined by the control means that the e-mail address of the e-mail sender matches the e-mail address of the specific person in the determining step, the e-mail is sent by the control means in the control step. Is opened and its contents are displayed on the display means. Thereby, the contents of important electronic mail from a specific sender are not missed.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the determination condition for determining the importance of the received e-mail is stored in the storage means, and when the e-mail is received, the e-mail is received based on the determination condition stored in the storage means. The importance level of the e-mail is determined by the control means, and the high-importance e-mail is opened immediately after being received by the control means, and the content is displayed on the display means. Users can be notified immediately after receiving the contents of expensive emails.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, the storage means stores the e-mail address of the specific person, and the e-mail address of the e-mail sender matches the e-mail address of the specific person stored in the storage means. When judged by the control means, the received e-mail is opened immediately after reception and the contents are displayed on the display means, so that the user can be informed of the contents of important e-mail from a specific sender.

  In the invention according to claim 3, the importance of the e-mail is determined by the control means based on the determination condition for determining the importance of the e-mail received in the determination step, and is determined in the determination step in the control step. Since a highly important e-mail is opened immediately after receiving the e-mail by the control means and the contents thereof are displayed on the display means, the user just looks at the display means and immediately after receiving the contents of the e-mail with high importance Can inform the user.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, when the control means determines that the e-mail address of the e-mail sender matches the e-mail address of the specific person in the determining step, the e-mail is opened by the control means in the control step. Since the contents are displayed on the display means, it is possible to inform the user of the contents of important electronic mail from a specific sender.

  Next, a mobile phone device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile phone device 10 includes a communication unit 12 connected to an antenna 16. The communication unit 12 transmits a signal from a baseband unit 14 to be described later to the base station via the antenna 16 or receives a radio wave from the base station via the antenna 16.

  The communication unit 12 is connected to the baseband unit 14. The baseband unit 14 includes a CDMA processing circuit 18 and an audio codec 20. Here, the CDMA processing circuit 18 performs code division multiple access, scrambling, error control, and timing detection. The audio codec 20 compresses (encodes) and decompresses (decodes) the audio, performs analog and digital conversion, and changes the received sound volume and microphone sensitivity by an internal amplifier circuit (not shown). .

  In addition, a switching circuit 22 is connected to the baseband unit 14. A first speaker 26 is connected to the switching circuit 22 via an amplifier circuit 24. The first speaker 26 converts the electric signal of the baseband unit 14 amplified by the amplifier circuit 24 into sound. This first speaker 26 is applied to the user's ear and used for a call.

  Further, the microphone 30 is connected to the switching circuit 22 via the amplifier circuit 28. The microphone 30 is used for a call and converts sound into an electrical signal. The electrical signal output from the microphone 30 is amplified by the amplifier circuit 28 and output to the baseband unit 14.

  Further, a second speaker 34 is connected to the switching circuit 22 via an amplifier circuit 32. The second speaker 34 converts the electric signal of the baseband unit 14 amplified by the amplifier circuit 32 into sound. The second speaker 34 is a loudspeaker for listening to the surrounding people of the received sound. The second speaker 34 also sounds an incoming call notification. Note that the gains of these three amplifier circuits 24, 28, and 32 are fixed, and the volume of the first speaker 26 and the second speaker 34 and the sensitivity of the microphone 30 cannot be changed.

  The switching circuit 22 is connected to the baseband unit 14 on the side of the amplifier circuit 24 for the first speaker 26 and the amplifier circuit 28 for the microphone 30, or the amplifier circuit 32 for the second speaker 34 for loud sound. And switching to the amplifying circuit 28 side for the microphone 30.

  A control circuit 36 is connected to each of the communication unit 12, the baseband unit 14, and the switching circuit 22. Switching by the switching circuit 22 described above is performed under the control of the control circuit 36. The control circuit 36 controls the audio codec 20 of the baseband unit 14, and the audio codec 20 changes the volume of the first speaker 26 and the second speaker 34 and the sensitivity of the microphone 30. The control circuit 36 is connected to the ROM 38 and controls each unit based on a system program stored in the ROM 38. The control circuit 36 is connected to a RAM 40 in which predetermined information necessary for the operation of the control circuit 36 is stored.

  Here, as shown in FIG. 3, the RAM 40 includes an e-mail data storage unit 40A and an importance determination rule storage unit 40B.

  The e-mail data storage unit 40A temporarily stores the received e-mail. The importance determination rule storage unit 40B stores determination conditions such as what conditions are determined to be important when the contents of the e-mail are satisfied. For example, specific words (keywords), e-mail addresses of specific people, etc. are stored. Specifically, specific words such as “important”, “emergency”, “change”, “delivery date”, etc. E-mail addresses such as “relative” and “company boss” are stored as words that the user needs to know immediately and as e-mail addresses of specific persons.

  Further, the control circuit 36 determines whether or not a specific word (keyword) is included in the subject and content (text) of the received e-mail based on the above-described determination conditions, and whether or not the e-mail is from a specific person. Etc. For example, if the control circuit 36 determines that the subject or content (text) of the e-mail contains words that the user needs to know immediately such as “important”, “emergency”, “change”, or the like, If it is determined that the sender is a specific person such as a relative, company boss, or business partner, the e-mail is determined to be “important”. In addition, the control circuit 36 does not include words / phrases (contents) of the e-mail that are necessary for the user to know immediately such as “important”, “emergency”, “change”, etc. If it is determined that the person is a person other than the relative, company boss, or business partner, the e-mail is determined to be “not important”. Further, if the control circuit 36 determines that it is “important”, the control circuit 36 opens the received electronic mail, and then outputs a command to display the contents on the display 42 described later.

  A liquid crystal display 42 is connected to the control circuit 36. The display 42 displays predetermined information such as the current time, telephone number, and e-mail content. For example, in the case of a foldable mobile phone device having two liquid crystal displays as the display 42, a display that is exposed to the outside in a folded state (hereinafter referred to as “first display” as appropriate) or a display that is hidden inside. (Hereinafter referred to as “second display” as appropriate), and all displays provided in mobile phone devices other than the folding type are also targeted.

  An input unit 44 is connected to the control circuit 36. The input unit 44 includes a numeric keypad 48 for inputting a telephone number and the like, a call key 50 for operating a call start, a cut key 52 for operating a call end, a function key 54 for setting various functions, have.

  Next, an e-mail content display method using the mobile phone device 10 according to the present embodiment will be described based on the flowchart shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 2, first, a determination condition such as a specific word (keyword) or a specific person's e-mail address for the user to determine “important” by the control circuit 36 is stored in the importance determination rule in the RAM 40. Store in the unit 40B (step 100). Specifically, words such as “Important”, “Emergency”, “Change”, “Delivery”, etc. that the user needs to know immediately and email addresses such as “Relatives” and “Supervisor” are stored. Let

  When an electronic mail is received by the communication unit 12 via the antenna 16 (step 110), the received electronic mail is based on the determination conditions stored in the importance determination rule storage unit 40B of the RAM 40 by the control circuit 36. The importance is discriminated (discriminating step, step 120). At this time, the control circuit 36 determines that the subject or content (text) of the e-mail includes a word such as “emergency” or “important”, or “control” or “company boss”. When it is determined that the e-mail is from a specific person, the e-mail is determined to be “important”. On the other hand, the control circuit 36 does not include words such as “emergency” and “important” in the subject and content (text) of the e-mail, and further from a specific person such as “relative” or “boss of the company”. If it is determined that it is not an e-mail, it is determined that the e-mail is “not important”.

  When the control circuit 36 determines that the e-mail is “important”, the control circuit 36 opens the e-mail, and then outputs a command for displaying the contents of the e-mail to the display 42. As a result, the contents of the important electronic mail are displayed on the display 42 immediately after the reception (control step, step 140).

  The e-mail displayed on the display 42 is then stored in the e-mail data storage unit 40A of the RAM 40 (step 160).

  On the other hand, if the control circuit 36 determines that the e-mail is “not important”, it is not opened immediately after reception but is stored as it is in the e-mail data storage unit 40A of the RAM 40 (step 160).

  The e-mail is not limited to the configuration in which the important e-mail is displayed on the display 42 and then stored in the e-mail data storage unit 40A. The received e-mail is once stored in the e-mail data storage unit 40A. After that, only the important electronic mail may be displayed on the display 42.

  As described above, when the user visually recognizes the display 42, the user can confirm the content of the important email received immediately after receiving it. Never miss it.

  In particular, in the case of a foldable mobile phone device, the content of an important e-mail can be displayed on the first display so that the user can immediately check the content of the e-mail even when the mobile phone device is folded. By displaying important e-mail content on the second display, when there is no first display or when the display area of the first display is small, or when the user opens the mobile phone device and uses the phone, By looking at the second display, it is possible to immediately confirm the contents of important e-mails.

  Note that the specific words (keywords) for determining the importance of the e-mail and the e-mail address of the specific person are not limited to the above-described words and e-mail addresses, but are considered to be important by the user. Or an e-mail address. These settings can be easily changed by the user by storing them in the importance determination rule storage unit 40B of the RAM 40 in advance.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone device according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows the effect | action of the mobile telephone apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic block diagram of RAM which comprises the mobile telephone apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

10 Mobile phone device 36 Control circuit (control means)
40B Importance determination rule storage unit (storage means)
42 Display (display means)

Claims (4)

Display means for displaying the content of the email;
Storage means for storing determination conditions for determining the importance of received e-mail;
Control means for determining the importance of the e-mail based on the determination condition, opening the e-mail having a high importance immediately after receiving the e-mail, and displaying the content on the display means; A mobile phone device. The storage means stores an e-mail address of a specific person,
When the control means determines that the e-mail address of the sender of the e-mail matches the e-mail address of the specific person stored in the storage means, the e-mail is opened and the contents are displayed on the display means The mobile phone device according to claim 1, wherein the mobile phone device is displayed. A determination step of causing the control means to determine the importance of the email based on a determination condition for determining the importance of the received email;
A control step of opening the electronic mail with high importance determined in the determination step immediately after receiving the electronic mail by the control means and displaying the contents on the display means;
An e-mail content display method characterized by comprising: When the control means determines that the e-mail address of the e-mail sender matches the e-mail address of a specific person in the determination step, the control means opens the e-mail by the control means in the control step and The e-mail content display method according to claim 3, wherein the e-mail content is displayed on the display means.

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