JP2010108462A - Discrimination display function of each e-mail title listed in e-mail transmitting/receiving tray of personal computer (hereafter, called as pc) - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a sender/receiver to discriminate and select e-mail "requiring an action later" or e-mail with "high importance, urgency" at a glance from a huge amount of stored transmitted/received e-mail list. <P>SOLUTION: In a discrimination display function of e-mail titles, the sender/receiver of e-mail arbitrarily grades each line of a transmission/reception list of a large number of pieces of displayed e-mail according to importance, urgency and purposes, a line of each e-mail title includes a "column" of the title, for example, "application" or "action" in which new writing is possible as necessary so that the e-mail is discriminated even after finishing reading, to provide e-mail software of a PC with a function for storing the written content. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

When mail software is started on a PC to send and receive mail via the Internet, a mail reception list is displayed. In the case of a received mail, the line of each received mail title is marked with “unopened (unread)”, and “sender”, “subject”, and “sent date / time” are displayed in “bold”. The recipient places the cursor anywhere on the line of the mail he wants to read and double-clicks to open the mail. If you open it, close it after reading it, and save it, the email title will be saved in "standard" font instead of "bold" and will be misplaced in the receiving list in the same way as other email title lines End up. Depending on your business, you typically receive dozens of emails per day, and can be huge. In the case of a transmission list, it is stored in “standard” font instead of “bold” from the beginning. The sender / receiver grades these enormous numbers of emails according to importance, urgency, and purpose, and the sender / receiver sorts each email title line in the send / receive list by color, or “flashes”, and adds new By writing the necessary actions in the "Summary" or "Action" fields provided, the sender / receiver can call attention to the importance and urgency of each email later, even after sending / receiving, and it can be discriminated at a glance. As described above, the functions of "Claim 1", "Claim 2" and "Claim 3", or any one of "two combinations of claims" or "any one of claims" Give it to mail software.

Among the mail transmission / reception lists, in the case of the reception list, the received mail is displayed in “bold” in the “unopened (unread)” stage. “Sender”, “Subject”, and “Sent date / time” are displayed in each line of the mail. If you open it, read it, close it once, and save it, the email will be saved in "standard" font instead of "bold" and will be confused in the receiving list. In the case of a transmission list, it is stored in “standard” font instead of “bold” from the beginning. In the case of Microsoft Windows mail, there is no “field” in which the target mail can be selected and written in the mail list, and it is not possible to set a “flag” on the sent / received mail title and classify the flag according to color. Yes, but you can't blink or color the whole line or part of it.

If the mail title line in the mail sending list is opened from the beginning, the mail title line in the receiving list is opened, and after reading and closing and saving, the mail title line is displayed in the “standard” font instead of “bold”. Saved with. Depending on the nature of the business, sending and receiving these emails can often be enormous in a day. Therefore, as the number of stored emails increases, the selection based on the importance and urgency is more troublesome for the sender / receiver himself / herself. Will end up. In such cases, it's often difficult to see at a glance which emails need to be dealt with urgently, which ones have priority, which emails contain important information, and which are not. It is very difficult for the sender / receiver to find out “mails that require action” or mails with high “importance / urgency” at a later time from the stored mail list.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the sender / receiver recognizes each email recognized as particularly important in the list of emails sent / received on the computer screen, according to its importance, urgency and purpose. Graded as follows, for each mail title line in the send / receive list, for example, a “column” named “Description” or “Action” can be written, and a line for each mail can be written. The mail software of the personal computer has the function to be able to sort the whole or a part by color, or to “flash”. With such a function, the sender and the receiver can distinguish and select the transmitted / received mail that needs processing from the mail list at a later time. That is, it is possible to prevent business mistakes by alerting the sender / receiver even after mail transmission / reception. (Unnecessary mail can be deleted from the list or saved as is.)
1) Requests for urgent answers (reception)
2) Requests for urgent responses (transmission)
3) A response is not requested immediately but a response is requested to the extent possible (reception)
4) A response is not requested immediately but a response is requested to the extent possible (transmission)
5) Containing important information (sending / receiving)
6) Some action is required (send / receive)
7) Things that are not important but that you think are important (sending / receiving)
Note that “grading” means that the sender / receiver himself “numbers” such as “I, II, III” and “1, 2, 3” or “A, B” depending on the importance / urgency of each mail. , C ”or“ a, b, c ”, etc., for example, if the importance / urgency is“ I ”, the email title row is color-coded in the corresponding color (eg,“ red ”) However, it is safe if the required action is entered together with the number “I” in the “summary column” or “action column”.

As outlined in “Claim 1”, “Claim 2” and “Claim 3” of the patent:
1 In the list of sent and received mails that are displayed in large numbers, each mail that is recognized as particularly important by the mail sender / receiver can be graded arbitrarily and written to the line of each mail title as needed. For example, a “column” titled “Summary” or “Action” is provided so that the mail software of the personal computer has a function of saving the written contents.
2 In the displayed mail send / receive list, each mail that is recognized as particularly important by the mail sender / receiver is graded arbitrarily, and the whole or part of each mail title line in the send / receive list is color-coded. To have the function to display in the PC email software.
3 Color coding can be freely selected and determined by the sender / receiver of the PC according to the grade and importance of each email according to the grade, such as “red”, “yellow”, “blue”, “green”, etc. .
4. In the displayed mail sending / receiving list, the sender / receiver selects each mail that the sender / receiver recognizes as particularly important content, and the whole mail title or part of each mail title in the sending / receiving list ("sender", " (Recipient ”,“ Subject ”,“ Sent date / time ”,“ Summary ”or“ Action ”) are flashed (flicker effect).

The invention's effect

Conventionally, in the mail transmission / reception list of the personal computer, the received mail is displayed in “bold” in the “unopened (unread)” stage. If you open it, read it, close it once, and save it, the email will be saved in "standard" font instead of "bold" and will be confused in the receiving list. In the case of the transmission list, it is saved in the “standard” font instead of “bold” from the beginning. For this reason, as the number of mail transmission / reception increases, it is difficult to discriminate the mail at a glance because it is stored in the “standard” font and is read again later to take necessary actions. If all of "Claim 1", "Claim 2", and "Claim 3" are processed on a personal computer and the mail list is saved, it is easy for the sender and receiver to Re-find mail and take necessary action.

Claims (3)

In the mail sending / receiving list displayed on the computer screen, each sender / sender recognizes the mail as particularly important content according to its importance, urgency and purpose, and each mail title in the sending / receiving list In each line, for example, a “column” named “Summary” or “Action” can be written, and a function for storing it can be stored in the mail software of the personal computer. The writable part may be an arbitrary part, at the beginning of each mail line, before the “send date”, or at the end. In the displayed mail sending / receiving list, each sender / sender recognizes the mail as particularly important, graded according to its importance, urgency, and purpose, and whether each mail title line in the sending / receiving list is an entire line. In addition, the mail software can have a part ("From", "Destination", "Subject", "Sent date", "Summary" or "Action") displayed in different colors, and a function to save it. In the displayed email send / receive list, the sender / receiver selects each email that the sender / receiver has identified as particularly important, and the entire email title line or part of each email title in the send / receive list ("From", The PC mail software has a function (flicker effect) that blinks “destination”, “subject”, “sent date / time”, “summary” or “action”.