JP2017117329A - Information processing device, control method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce time and effort for browsing attachment files and mails by improving a presentation method of the attachment file of a thread mail.SOLUTION: When a received mail has an encoded attachment file, an information processing device converts the encoded attachment file into a decoded file to register it into a storage unit, and prepares link information indicating the file to store it while associating prepared link information with the received mail. The information processing device determines whether there is a second mail related to a first mail to be displayed and there is link information associated with the second mail, and when it is determined there is the link information, the link information associated with the second mail is displayed with the first mail.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

  The present invention relates to control of an information processing apparatus that receives an electronic mail.

  For an information processing apparatus that transmits and receives electronic mail (hereinafter referred to as mail), an attached file may be attached to the received mail. The attached file attached to the e-mail often contains information more important than the e-mail text. Therefore, there is a request to search for an attached file sent in the past.

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-151620 discloses a technique for managing a mail text and an attached file separately and performing a search separately for the mail text and the attached file.

JP 2011-70490 A

  However, the technique described in Patent Document 1 is limited to the improvement by individual search by the classification management of the body of the transmitted mail and the attached file, and the efficiency of the search processing is improved. In the case of multiple occurrences, the trouble of browsing the attached file and the mail still occurs, and the operation of reading the mail is complicated.

  Specifically, it is assumed that transmission of mail is performed as follows for the groups B and C related to the communication of the monitoring data A related to the system department.

    1. Sending B group ⇒ C group (with attached file)

    2. Email 1. To inquire about the contents of, send from Group C to Group B (with attached file),

    3. Email 2. To answer the contents of, send from Group B to Group C,

    4). Email 3. Sent from Group C to Group B for approval of the contents of

  When mail is sent in this way, the mail is 1. ~ 4. The information about the monitoring data A is mail 4. And email 1.2. Are included in the attached file (when the body of the mail 1.2.3. Which is the transmission source mail is included in the mail 4).

  3. Mail for monitoring contents of monitoring data A When referring to the text, the text is mail 1.2.3. Can be referred to at one time, but mail 1.2. For the attached file, search for the mail and find it, or use the thread display function etc. It is necessary to search for the attached file after searching for it, which is more time-consuming than referring to the text.

  In addition, mail 1.2. As for, those texts are mail 4. Even though it is included in the mail, it has an attached file. When referring to the attached mail, mail 1.2. It takes time and effort.

  It is an object of the present invention to reduce the trouble of browsing attached files and mails by improving the method for displaying attached files in thread mails.

  The present invention is an information processing apparatus comprising: mail receiving means for receiving mail from a mail server; display means for displaying mail received by the mail receiving means; and storage means for storing a file. If there is an encoded attached file in the mail received by the receiving means, the encoded attached file is converted into a decoded file and registered in the storage means, and the decoded information stored in the storage means Link information creating means for creating link information pointing to a file; link information created by the link information creating means; and link information storing means for linking and storing the mail received by the mail receiving means; and the display There is a second mail associated with the first mail displayed by the means, Determining means for determining whether there is link information linked to the second mail by a link information storage means, and the display means includes the second mail associated with the first mail by the determining means. If the link information storage means determines that there is link information associated with the second mail, the link information associated with the second mail is displayed together with the first mail. It is characterized by.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, it has the effect of making it possible to reduce the effort of browsing an attached file or mail by improving the display method of the attached file by thread mail.

It is a system configuration figure showing the composition of the information processing system of the embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the hardware constitutions of the various terminals of embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the control processing means in the information processing apparatus of embodiment of this invention. It is data which shows an example of the mail transmission / reception in the information processing apparatus of embodiment of this invention. It is a screen image of the mail screen displayed on the display part 210 of the information processing apparatus in embodiment of this invention. It is a screen image of the mail screen displayed on the display part 210 of the information processing apparatus in embodiment of this invention. It is a screen image of the mail screen displayed on the display part 210 of the information processing apparatus in embodiment of this invention. It is a screen image of the mail screen displayed on the display part 210 of the information processing apparatus in embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing a configuration of an information processing system according to the present invention.

  In FIG. 1, the information processing system has at least one mail server 200 and a client terminal (information processing apparatus) 100 for transmitting and receiving mail from the mail server 200 and is connected via a network 110.

  The user receives mail stored in the mail server 200 using the client terminal (information processing apparatus) 100, and also sends mail created using the client terminal (information processing apparatus) 100 to the mail server 200. Send.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of various terminals according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 2, the CPU 201 comprehensively controls each device connected to the system bus 204.

  The ROM 202 or the external memory 211 stores an operating system (OS) that is a control program of the CPU 201 and programs for realizing various functions described later of each server or each client.

  The RAM 203 functions as a main memory, work area, temporary save area, and the like for the CPU 201.

  The input controller 205 controls input from the input unit 209. Examples of the input unit 209 include a pointing device such as a keyboard and a mouse in a terminal such as a server or a client. Moreover, in a printing apparatus etc., a touch panel, a button, a switch, etc. are mentioned.

  The output controller 206 controls the display of the output unit 210. Examples of the output unit 210 include a CRT and a liquid crystal display.

  The external memory controller 207 controls access to the external memory 211 that stores a boot program, various applications, font data, user files, edit files, printer drivers, and the like. In addition, various tables and parameters for realizing various functions of each server or each client are stored. Examples of the external memory 211 include a hard disk (HD), a floppy (registered trademark) disk (FD), a compact flash (registered trademark) connected to a PCMCIA card slot via an adapter, and smart media.

  The communication I / F controller 208 executes communication control processing with an external device via a network.

  A program (FIG. 14) for realizing the present invention is recorded in the external memory 211, and is executed by the CPU 201 by being loaded into the RAM 203 as necessary.

  Hereinafter, the flow of the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a control processing unit in the information processing apparatus (client terminal) according to the embodiment of this invention, and S301 to S311 in the figure indicate each step. The processing in each step is realized by the CPU 201 of each device loading and executing the application program stored in the external memory 211 of the information processing device on the RAM 203.

  The flowchart of FIG. 3 is a flow of processing that is started when a mail receiving process is executed in a MUA (Mail User Agent) in the client terminal 100.

  First, in step S301, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 receives mail from the mail server 200 and stores it.

  Next, in step S302, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 determines whether there is an attached file in the mail received in step S301. Whether or not there is an attached file is determined, for example, by whether or not “Content-Type: multipart / mixed;” is present in the header of the received mail. If there is an attached file, the process proceeds to step S303, and if there is no attached file, the process proceeds to step S306.

  When the process proceeds to step S303, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 extracts the attached file part encoded in the mail, decodes it, changes it to a normal file format, and stores it in the external memory 211 of the client terminal.

  Next, in step S304, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 links information specifying the storage location of the attached file in the file format stored in step S303 (for example, <a> anchor with a URI character string or URI as the link destination). Tag or shortcut file). By creating link information for this attached file, if there is an attached file in the received mail, this link information will be added to the mail received later when an email related to the received mail with attached file is received later. , You can easily check the attached file of the received mail with attached file.

  Next, in step S305, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 stores the link information created in step S304 in association with the mail received in step S301.

  Next, in step S306, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 determines whether there is thread information in the mail received in step S301. Whether there is thread information is determined by, for example, whether there is “In-reply-to:” in the header of the received mail. If there is thread information, the process proceeds to step S307, and if there is no thread information, the process proceeds to step S311.

  When the process transitions to step S307, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 extracts link information associated with the “mail with mail message ID” of the thread information determined to exist at step S306. By this process, when there is link information in the mail related to the received mail, that is, when there is an attached file in the mail related to the received mail, the link information is extracted.

  Next, in step S308, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 determines whether link information has been extracted in step S307. If the link information can be extracted, this indicates that the attached file is included in the thread mail related to the received mail, and in this case, the process proceeds to step S309. On the other hand, if link information cannot be extracted, the process proceeds to step S310.

  When the process transitions to step S309, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 performs a process of adding the thread mail link information extracted in step S307 to the mail received in step S301. Details will be described later with reference to FIGS.

  Next, in step S310, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 determines whether the received mail is a threaded mail, even if there is no link information (that is, whether there is an attached file). Hide from the mail list.

  Next, in step S311, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 performs processing for displaying the received mail together with the link information added in step S309. The display result will be described later with reference to FIGS.

  With the above processing, when confirming thread mail that has been repeatedly transmitted and received after receiving mail with an attached file, it is possible to easily confirm past thread mail attached files.

  Next, mail display screen images displayed on the display unit 210 of the client terminal 100 when the processing of the flowchart of FIG. 3 is executed will be described with reference to FIGS. The mail transmission / reception relationships shown in FIGS. 5 to 8 are schematically shown in FIG.

  FIG. 4 is a data diagram schematically showing exchanges of mail sent and received in the embodiment of the present invention.

  401 of FIG. 4 describes a schematic mail number, and one line corresponds to one mail. Reference numeral 402 describes whether or not an attached file is attached to the mail. For example, 403 and 404 are mail numbers stored in a mailbox in a predetermined address. Also, the direction of transmission / reception of these mails is set to transmit / receive at the arrow 405.

  For example, the mail with the mail number I on the first line is a “work content contact” mail, and a file “monitoring data” is attached as an attached file. This mail is sent from the operation side and the reception side from the business side. The screen image exchanged by the email on the first line will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 5 is a screen image of a mail screen displayed on the display unit 210 of the information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  A mail 500 on the left side of FIG. 5 is a screen image of a transmission mail created by the operation side, and “○ monitoring data.xlsx” is designated as the attached file 501.

  A screen image received by the business side of an image mail such as the transmitted mail 500 is the mail 510. When this mail is received, processing according to the flowchart of FIG. 3 is performed.

  In the case of the received mail 510, first, in step S302, since the attached file “◯ monitoring data.xlsx” 501 exists, the processing after step S303 is executed, and the “◯ monitoring data.xlsx” file is stored in the client 100. The link information indicating the location of the file is generated after being stored in the external memory 211. Thereafter, the mail number I and the generated link information (not shown) are linked and stored.

  In the next step S306, since the received mail 510 has no thread information (there is no “In-reply-to:” in the header), the process proceeds to step S311 and the received mail screen 510 of FIG. A screen with an image like this is displayed. Return to description of data diagram of FIG.

  Next, the mail with the mail number II in the second line is a mail when it is transmitted from the business side to the operation side as a reply to the mail in FIG. A file called “additional data” is attached as an attached file. A screen image displayed as a result of the exchange of mail on the second line will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 6 is a screen image of a mail screen displayed on the display unit 210 of the information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  7 is a screen image of a received mail 610 on the operation side and a received mail 600 on the business side after the business person in charge replies the mail with the content like the mail 600 on the right side of FIG. Since the attached file “◯ additional data.xlsx” is attached and sent back like the mail 600, the attachment file 601 “○ additional data.xlsx” exists in step S302 according to the flowchart of FIG. Therefore, the processing after step S303 is executed, the “◯ additional data.xlsx” file 601 is stored in the external memory 211 of each client 100, and then link information indicating the location of the file is generated. Thereafter, the mail number II and the generated link information (not shown) are linked and stored.

  In the next step S306, since the received mail 510 has thread information (the header has “In-reply-to:”), the processing after step S307 is executed. That is, a mail (thread mail) related to the received mail 600 or 610 is searched from the mail of “Message-ID” corresponding to “In-reply-to:”, and whether there is link information of the mail (step S308). ).

  The mail (thread mail) related to the mail 600 is the mail 500 in FIG. 5, and since the received mail 510 has an attached file, link information has been created. Therefore, the process of step S309 is performed. Run. In step S309, the link information of the thread mail is displayed as 602 and 612 in FIG. 6, and the attached file “Observation data.xlsx” 501 can be immediately accessed by clicking this link.

  Thereafter, in step S310, thread mails other than the received mail are hidden from the mail list screen (not shown), and the received mail screens 600 and 610 in FIG. 6 are displayed in step S311.

  As described above, the process of step S309 has an effect that a file attached to a thread mail received in the past can be easily confirmed even from a recently received thread mail. In addition, the processing in step S310 prevents the display of messages other than the latest received mail, thereby reducing the number of items displayed when the user checks the mail.

  Similarly, the screen image of FIG. 7 and the screen image of FIG. 8 are screen images when the third and fourth lines of FIG. 4 are received. In the case of the emails on the third and fourth lines, unlike the emails on the first and second lines, since there is no attached file, the processes in steps S303 to S305 are not executed, and the processes after step S307 are performed. Everything will be executed.

  With the above processing, the present invention has an effect of reducing the trouble of browsing the attached file and the mail by improving the display method of the attached file in the thread mail. In particular, the attachment file attached to the thread mail received in the past can be easily confirmed even from the recently received thread mail.

  In the present embodiment, the above configuration is considered. However, the data configuration, the display screen image, and the contents thereof are not limited to this, and various configurations and contents may be used depending on the application and purpose. Needless to say, it is composed.

  Although one embodiment has been described above, the present invention can take an embodiment as, for example, a system, apparatus, method, program, or recording medium, and specifically includes a plurality of devices. The present invention may be applied to a system including a single device.

  In addition, all the structures which combined each modification shown in this embodiment are also contained in this invention.

  Although not particularly illustrated, information for managing a program group stored in the recording medium, for example, version information, creator, etc. is also stored, and information depending on the OS on the program reading side, for example, a program is identified and displayed. Icons may also be stored.

  Further, data depending on various programs is also managed in the directory. In addition, when a program or data to be installed is compressed, a program to be decompressed may be stored.

  The functions shown in FIG. 3 or 4 in this embodiment may be performed by a host computer by a program installed from the outside. In this case, the present invention is applied even when an information group including a program is supplied to the output device from a recording medium such as a CD-ROM, a flash memory, or an FD, or from an external recording medium via a network. Is.

  As described above, a recording medium in which a program code of software for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments is recorded is supplied to the system or apparatus, and the computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus is stored in the recording medium. It goes without saying that the object of the present invention can also be achieved by reading and executing the program code.

  In this case, the program code itself read from the recording medium realizes the novel function of the present invention, and the recording medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention.

  As a recording medium for supplying the program code, for example, a flexible disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-ROM, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, ROM, EEPROM, A silicon disk or the like can be used.

  Further, by executing the program code read by the computer, not only the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized, but also an OS (operating system) or the like running on the computer based on the instruction of the program code. It goes without saying that a case where the function of the above-described embodiment is realized by performing part or all of the actual processing and the processing is included.

  Furthermore, after the program code read from the recording medium is written in a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted in the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, the function expansion is performed based on the instruction of the program code. It goes without saying that the case where the CPU or the like provided in the board or the function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

  Further, the present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of a single device. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to a case where the present invention is achieved by supplying a program to a system or apparatus. In this case, by reading a recording medium storing a program represented by software for achieving the present invention into the system or apparatus, the system or apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention.

  Furthermore, by downloading and reading out a program represented by software for achieving the present invention from a server, database, etc. on a network using a communication program, the system or apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention. It becomes.

100 Client terminal 110 Network 200 Mail server

Claims (7)

Mail receiving means for receiving mail from the mail server;
Display means for displaying the mail received by the mail receiving means;
Storage means for storing files;
An information processing apparatus having
If there is an encoded attachment in the mail received by the mail receiving means, a registration means for converting the encoded attachment to a decoded file and registering it in the storage means;
Link information creating means for creating link information indicating the decoded file registered in the storage means;
Link information storage means for storing the link information created by the link information creation means and the mail received by the mail receiving means in association with each other;
Determining means for determining whether there is a second mail associated with the first mail displayed by the display means, and whether there is link information linked to the second mail by the link information storage means;
The display means determines that the second mail associated with the first mail exists by the determination means, and the link information storage means determines that there is link information associated with the second mail. In this case, the information processing apparatus displays link information associated with the second mail together with the first mail.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the link information is address information of the decoded file stored in the storage unit.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the link information is information linked to the decoded file stored in the storage unit.   4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the related mail determined by the determination unit is a mail of the same thread. Mail list display means for displaying a list of mails received by the mail receiving means;
If the second mail associated with the first mail exists in the mail list displayed by the mail list display means, the second mail is displayed in the mail list. Related email hiding means not to allow,
5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: A mail receiving step for receiving mail from the mail server;
A display step for displaying the mail received by the mail receiving step;
A storage unit for storing files;
A control method for controlling an information processing apparatus having
If there is an encoded attachment in the email received by the email reception step, a registration step of converting the encoded attachment into a decoded file and registering it in the storage unit;
A link information creating step for creating link information indicating the decoded file stored in the storage unit;
Link information registration step of registering the link information created in the link information creation step and the email received in the email reception step in the storage unit in association with each other,
A determination step of determining whether there is a second mail associated with the first mail displayed in the display step, and whether link information associated with the second mail is registered in the link information registration step; ,
In the display step, the second mail associated with the first mail exists in the determination step, and the link information associated with the second mail is registered in the link information registration step. If determined, the control method includes displaying link information associated with the second mail together with the first mail.   A program for causing a computer to function as the information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5.

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