JP2018077654A - Information processing device, and method and program for controlling information processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mechanism for inhibiting an erroneous address from being set when a user sets an address to transmit data.SOLUTION: Data is transmitted and received, a plurality of addresses indicating transmission destinations of the data, and user's attribute information related to each address are stored, a keyword to be used to specify an address having a higher possibility of transmitting the data is acquired from the stored user's attribute information related to each address, an input of transmission data to be transmitted is received, the acquired keyword is specified as to whether to be included in the inputted transmission data, and a list of the plurality of addresses is generated and displayed such that an address related to the attribute information of the user to be an acquisition source of the keyword specified to be included in the transmission data is ranked higher.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, a control method for the information processing apparatus, and a program, and in particular, a technique for providing a mechanism for suppressing an incorrect address from being set when an address for transmitting data is set by a user. About.

  In recent years, e-mail and FAX have been used as means for conveying private requirements and as means for companies to send documents and data on business. E-mail and FAX are very useful tools that can be easily contacted and share documents and data.

  However, if the data is sent to the wrong destination, not only cannot the data be sent to the intended party, but there is a possibility that personal information data and confidential information may be leaked.

  Therefore, a technique for preventing erroneous transmission has been proposed. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for suppressing erroneous transmission by comparing a person name appearing in a text described by a user with a person name of a set destination and confirming whether they match. Patent Document 2 discloses a technique for determining whether the destination to be transmitted is correct.

JP 2007-228290 A JP 2012-133474 A

  As a case where erroneous transmission occurs, it is possible to make an erroneous transmission by setting it as a destination without the user being aware of it from the address book in which a huge number of destinations are registered, as displayed by person name search, etc. There were a lot of things. It is troublesome for the user to select a destination to be transmitted from the address book. For this reason, it is desirable to prevent erroneous transmission at the time of setting a destination so that the destination setting which is troublesome for the user is not performed many times.

  However, in the erroneous transmission prevention techniques described in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, when it is determined that the destination is wrong, it is necessary to select the destination again from the address book.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism for suppressing an incorrect address from being set when an address for transmitting data is set by a user.

  The present invention is an information processing apparatus that transmits and receives data, and stores a plurality of addresses indicating data transmission destinations and user attribute information associated with each address, and is stored by the storage unit. Acquisition means for acquiring a keyword used to identify an address that is more likely to be transmitted from the attribute information of the user associated with each of the addresses, and reception means for receiving input of transmission data to be transmitted And specifying means for specifying whether the keyword acquired by the acquiring means is included in the transmission data received by the receiving means, and specifying that the keyword is included in the transmission data by the specifying means The storage means stores a plurality of addresses so that the address associated with the attribute information of the user from which the keyword is acquired is higher. It characterized in that it comprises generating means for generating a list of dresses, and a display means for displaying the list generated by the generation means.

  Further, the present invention is a method for controlling an information processing apparatus comprising a storage means for transmitting and receiving data, storing a plurality of addresses indicating data transmission destinations, and user attribute information associated with each address, The acquisition unit of the information processing apparatus acquires a keyword used to identify an address that is more likely to transmit the data from the user attribute information associated with each address stored in the storage unit The acquisition step, the reception unit of the information processing device receives the input of transmission data to be transmitted, and the keyword acquired by the identification unit of the information processing device in the acquisition step is input in the reception step A specifying step for specifying whether the transmission data is included in the transmission data, and the generation unit of the information processing apparatus performs the transmission by the specifying step. Generating a list of a plurality of addresses stored in the storage means such that an address associated with the attribute information of the user that is the acquisition source of the keyword specified as being included in the data is higher; The display unit of the information processing apparatus includes a display step for displaying the list generated in the generation step.

In addition, the present invention is a program that can be read and executed by an information processing apparatus including a storage unit that transmits and receives data, stores a plurality of addresses indicating data transmission destinations, and user attribute information associated with each address. Then, the information processing apparatus obtains a keyword used to identify an address that is more likely to transmit the data from user attribute information associated with each address stored in the storage unit. Obtaining means for receiving, receiving means for receiving input of transmission data to be transmitted, and specifying means for specifying whether the keyword acquired by the acquiring means is included in the transmission data received by the receiving means;
A list of a plurality of addresses stored in the storage means is arranged such that an address associated with the attribute information of the user who is the acquisition source of the keyword specified as being included in the transmission data by the specifying means is higher. It is made to function as a production | generation means to produce | generate and the display means to display the said list | wrist produced | generated by the said production | generation means.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, when the address which transmits data is set by the user, the mechanism which suppresses setting an incorrect address can be provided.

It is a figure which shows an example of the block diagram explaining the function structure of the information processing apparatus in embodiment of this invention. It is a hardware block diagram of the information processing apparatus in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the address book of mail software. It is a figure which shows an example of a transmission text (mail content text). It is a figure which shows an example of the destination search function of known mail software. It is a figure which shows an example of the list | wrist of the phrase searched from the transmission text (mail content text) in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the address | destination list | wrist (without a search character) created based on the phrase searched from the transmission text (mail content text) in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the address | destination list | wrist (with a search character "Tanaka") created based on the phrase searched from the transmission text (mail content text) in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen when actually selecting a destination from a list | wrist at the time of mail creation in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart figure which shows the flow from preparation of mail to transmission in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart figure which shows the process which creates the destination list from an address book by using as a keyword the phrase searched from the transmission text (mail content text) in embodiment of this invention. This flowchart describes details of S802 in the flowchart of FIG. It is a flowchart figure which shows the process which replaces the display order of the created destination list | wrist in embodiment of this invention. This flowchart describes details of S803 in the flowchart of FIG. It is an image figure at the time of reflecting in a list the number of matches of the phrase searched from the transmission text (mail content text) in the embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the destination list | wrist after changing the display order of the destination in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the pop-up screen for the user to determine a destination from a destination list in embodiment of this invention.

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

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of the information processing apparatus 101 according to the embodiment of this invention. The information processing apparatus 101 is a terminal that transmits and receives data.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of the information processing apparatus 101.

  The information processing apparatus 101 includes an acquisition unit 102, a reception unit 103, a specification unit 104, a generation unit 105, and a display unit 106.

  The acquisition unit 102 acquires a keyword used to identify an address that is highly likely to be transmitted from the attribute information of the user associated with each address from a list of addresses indicating transmission destinations to which the data is transmitted. It has a function.

  The accepting unit 103 has a function of accepting data to be transmitted.

  The specifying unit 104 has a function of specifying whether the keyword acquired from the acquiring unit 102 is included in the data to be transmitted received by the receiving unit 103.

  The generation unit 105 has a function of generating a list of addresses so that the address associated with the attribute information of the user who is the acquisition source of the keyword specified by the specifying unit 104 is higher.

  The display unit 106 has a function of displaying a list of addresses generated by the generation unit 105.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of the information processing apparatus 101.

  The CPU 201 comprehensively controls each device and controller connected to the system bus 204.

  In addition, the ROM 202 or the external memory 211 (storage means) is for realizing a BIOS (Basic Input / Output System) that is a control program of the CPU 201, an operating system program (hereinafter referred to as OS), and a function executed by the information processing apparatus 101. Various programs and the like which will be described later are stored. The RAM 203 functions as a main memory, work area, and the like for the CPU 201.

  The external memory 211 is an example of a storage unit that stores a plurality of addresses indicating data transmission destinations and user attribute information associated with each address in the present invention.

  The CPU 201 implements various operations by loading a program necessary for execution of processing into the RAM 203 and executing the program.

  The input controller 205 controls input from an input device 209 such as a keyboard or a pointing device such as a mouse (not shown).

  The video controller 206 controls display on a display device such as the display 210. The type of the display device is assumed to be a CRT or a liquid crystal display, but is not limited thereto.

  The memory controller 207 is a card type memory connected via an adapter to a hard disk, a flexible disk, or a PCMCIA card slot for storing a boot program, browser software, various applications, font data, user files, editing files, various data, etc. The access to the external memory 211 is controlled.

  A communication I / F controller (communication I / FC) 208 is connected to and communicates with an external device via a network, and executes communication control processing in the network. For example, Internet communication using TCP / IP is possible.

  Note that the CPU 201 enables display on the display 210 by executing outline font rasterization processing on a display information area in the RAM 203, for example.

Further, the CPU 201 enables a user instruction with a mouse cursor (not shown) on the display 210.

  Various programs and the like used for each terminal of the present invention to execute various processes to be described later are recorded in the external memory 211, and are executed by the CPU 201 by being loaded into the RAM 203 as necessary.

  Furthermore, definition files and various information tables used by the program according to the present invention are stored in the external memory 211.

  First, the destination search function of known mail software will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the execution result of the destination search function of known mail software.

  In the known destination search function, a name is input to the name input field 501 to be searched by the user, and a search is made for a name that matches the name input in the input name input field 501 as a search keyword. Address information). Specifically, when a search is made with the name “Tanaka”, the search result with the name “Tanaka” is displayed as indicated by 502 in FIG. 5, but whether the user wants to send “Tanaka” is determined. In addition, other information had to be examined and confirmed.

  A method for shortening the time for the user to examine other information will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS.

  The flowcharts of FIGS. 10 to 12 are processes until the destination list is created from the body of the electronic mail (401 in FIG. 4 to be described later) written by the user and the user selects the destination in the embodiment of the present invention. is there.

  In this embodiment, e-mail transmission will be described as an example, but it goes without saying that it can be generally applied to a scanning function of a multi-function peripheral and a system for inputting data such as FAX transmission to transmit data to the other party.

  First, the flowchart of FIG. 10 represents processing from when the user inputs the text indicated by 401 in FIG. 4 to when the mail is transmitted.

  In step S1001, the information processing apparatus 101 receives an input of a transmission text (hereinafter also referred to as a mail content text or a text) by the user (for example, FIG. 4).

  Step S1001 is an application example of the accepting means of the present invention, and accepts input of transmission data to be transmitted.

  In step S1002, the information processing apparatus 101 performs a keyword search registered in the address book for the character string received in step S1001, and the destination list 1301 in FIG. 13 (the description of FIG. 13 will be described later). And the phrase list 601 of FIG. Details of step S1002 will be described later with reference to FIG.

  Step S1002 is an application example of the acquisition unit of the present invention, and identifies an address that is more likely to transmit the data from the user attribute information associated with each address stored in the storage unit. The keyword used for the purpose is acquired.

  Step S1002 is an application example of the specifying unit of the present invention, and specifies whether or not the keyword acquired by the acquiring unit is included in the transmission data received by the receiving unit.

  Here, FIG. 3, FIG. 4, and FIG. 6 will be described.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of the transmitted text. Write the name and affiliation of the destination at the beginning of the sent sentence, and continue to the sent contents. According to the present invention, a necessary keyword is extracted from the transmitted text 401 and used in subsequent searches.

  The necessary keywords are those obtained from the destination information registered in the address book shown in FIG.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of an address book used in mail software. In the address book, “name 301”, “email address 302” (hereinafter also referred to as address) “affiliation 303 (company name, department name, section name)” is registered as destination (destination, destination) information. And The registered destination information is used as a search keyword (search keyword) in the search processing in this description. In this embodiment, the mail address 302 is not used as a keyword, but the mail address may be used as a search keyword.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example displayed as a list of extracted words and phrases retrieved from the transmitted text (mail content body text) of FIG.

  6 are lists obtained by searching the transmitted text (mail content body text) with the search keywords registered in the address book of FIG. 3 and extracting the matched phrases. Can be displayed when the “display” function (described later in the description of FIG. 7) is executed.

  In this embodiment, the transmission text is used as a search target and the search keyword is used for search. However, “subject” may be searched for.

  In step S1003, the information processing apparatus 101 rearranges the order of the list created in step S1002. Details of the rearranging process in step S1003 will be described later with reference to FIG.

  In step S1004, the information processing apparatus 101 displays the word list created in step S1002 and the destination list rearranged in step S1003 to the user.

  In step S1004, the screen (FIG. 7) displayed on the display 210 of the information processing apparatus 101 is displayed. On the screen of FIG. 7, the user can perform a name search.

  Step S1004 is an application example of the display means of the present invention, and displays the list generated by the generation means.

  Specifically, when the user inputs “Tanaka” in the name input field 703 and the search button 704 is pressed, the screen shown in FIG. 8 is displayed.

  When the search word list display button 702 in FIG. 7 is pressed by the user, a pop-up display 601 in FIG. 6 is displayed. The word / phrase described in 601 in FIG. 6 is a hit made by searching a keyword such as a name and affiliation registered in the address book in the text.

  Here, FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 will be described.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example when destination candidates created based on a phrase retrieved from a transmitted sentence (mail content text) are displayed on the display 210 of the information processing apparatus 101 as a list.

  In the destination list 701 (destination candidate list), the information processing apparatus 101 searches the address book using the words and phrases extracted from the document of the sent sentence 401 in FIG. 4 as keywords, and the number of matched keywords is large among the searched items. The destination list 701 is arranged in order from the top.

  By displaying the result that the number of matched keywords is large as “the person who is most likely to be transmitted” and displaying them as a list in order, erroneous transmission to confusing destinations such as the same name and the same name is prevented. The person displayed at the top of the created destination list 701 is derived by the number of keyword matches, but those who are ranked second or lower are arranged in descending order of the number of keyword matches other than the name of the person. Details of the processing for determining the order of the list will be described in the description of the flowchart of FIG.

  When the user presses the “searched phrase list display button 702” in FIG. 7, the phrase list 601 in FIG. 6 is displayed on the display 210 of the information processing apparatus 101. As a result, the user can confirm the address information described in the text.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram in which there is no search character in the name search field 703, but the user inputs the name to be searched for in the name input field 703, and is derived by the number of keyword matches by pressing the search button 704. It is also possible to narrow down (search) while maintaining the display order (explained when a narrowing search is performed in FIG. 8 described later).

  FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a further refined search by name from the destination list 701 created in FIG. 801 in FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example when the searched “name” matches are displayed while the display order of the destination list 701 created in FIG. 7 is maintained.

  By performing the display indicated by 801 in FIG. 8, unlike the known name search, there is a high possibility that the higher-ranked search result is a partner to which the user wants to send.

  Above, description of FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 is complete | finished, and it returns to description of FIG.

  In step S1005, the information processing apparatus 101 receives a destination selection from the destination list displayed in step S1004 from the user.

  Step S1005 is an application example of the designation accepting means of the present invention, and accepts designation of an address as the data transmission destination from the list displayed by the display means.

  FIG. 9 shows an example of a screen displayed on the display 210 of the information processing apparatus 101 in which the mail destination (TO, CC) is set by the user. As a destination setting method such as TO or CC, for example, when a user clicks on a name in a list (touching in the case of a touch panel), a pop-up screen for selecting TO, CC, or BCC shown in 1501 of FIG. The information processing apparatus 101 accepts designation from the user as to whether the personal name selected by the user is set to TO, CC, or BCC on the pop-up screen displayed on the display 210 of the information processing apparatus 101.

  In step S1006, the information processing apparatus 101 transmits to the destination set in step S1005.

  Step S1006 is an application example of the transmission means of the present invention, and transmits the data accepted by the accepting means to the address accepted by the designation accepting means.

  Here, FIG. 9 and FIG. 15 will be described.

  FIG. 9 is an image of the created destination candidate list display screen. The order of displayed candidates, the search function, the button behavior, and the like are the same as those in FIGS.

  In the destination list 901 (destination candidate list), a destination 903 that is not caught in the search keyword 902 is also displayed, but the information processing apparatus 101 grays out the display portion of the destination 903 so that the user can visually check it. It has been made easy. That is, it is displayed so that it can be identified.

  A selection of a destination to which the mail is sent from the destination list 901 is received from the user. Then, by accepting selection of a format 904 (TO, CC, BCC, etc.) 904 to be sent next from the user (description of 904 will be described later), the second and subsequent destinations are determined.

  FIG. 15 shows a window 1501 that is continuously displayed when the user selects a destination to be sent in the format 904 to be sent in the destination list 901 of FIG.

  The window 1501 is provided with three selection items (transmission format) “TO”, “CC”, and “BCC”, and accepts selection from the user as to which format the destination selected at 901 in FIG. 9 is sent. . Upon accepting the selection, the information processing apparatus 101 displays the destination list in FIG. 9 again. Further, when the second and subsequent destinations are selected, the window 1501 can be displayed and the selection of the transmission format can be accepted.

  Above, description of FIG. 9 and FIG. 15 is complete | finished.

  The flowchart of FIG. 11 is a flowchart for performing a process of searching the body for a destination keyword (pointing to a registered department or the like) registered in the address book, and is a detailed flow of step S1002 of FIG.

  In step S1101, one item is acquired from the address book, and keywords described in the address book such as a person's name, address, and affiliation are acquired from the registered contents. This process is repeated for the number of items registered in the address book.

  Step S1101 is an application example of the acquisition unit of the present invention, and specifies an address that is more likely to be transmitted from the user attribute information associated with each address stored in the storage unit. The keyword used for the purpose is acquired.

  In step S1102, the information processing apparatus 101 stores the destination registered in the address book in the LIST-A. FIG. 13 shows a state of LIST-A in which the flowchart of FIG. 11 is completed. LIST-A is a list created in the external memory 211, and is a list that is deleted from the external memory 211 of the information processing apparatus 101 when mail transmission is completed.

  In step S1103, the number of destination keywords registered in step S1102 and loop processing are executed.

  In step S1103, the information processing apparatus 101 performs a keyword search for the entire text. This process is repeated for the number of keywords acquired from the address book.

  Specifically, when a search is performed on the transmitted sentence 401 in FIG. 4 with the keyword “Tanaka I” of the name 301 in FIG. 3, “Company A” “Y Department” “Q Section” “Tanaka” “I” The process is repeated five times. In the case of 401 in FIG. 4, four keywords “A company”, “Y department”, “Q section”, and “Tanaka” are hit. In addition, the search may be performed by omitting words that serve as titles such as “company”, “department”, and “section”. For example, in FIG. 13, the search result is obtained by omitting the title.

  In step S1104, the information processing apparatus 101 determines whether the searched character is in the text.

  If the searched character is in the text (step S1104: YES), the information processing apparatus 101 proceeds to step S1105.

  If the searched character is not in the text (step S1104: NO), the information processing apparatus 101 shifts the processing to the next keyword search.

  In step S1105, when the searched keyword is hit, the information processing apparatus 101 adds the keyword to the [Search Hit] item of the LIST-A address acquired in 1102 where the hit keyword is found.

  Step S1105 is an application example of the specifying unit of the present invention, and specifies whether or not the keyword acquired by the acquiring unit is included in the transmission data received by the receiving unit.

  The information processing apparatus 101 also registers the keyword in LIST-B. If the same word is already registered in LIST-B, it is not registered. The LIST-B is created in the external memory 211 and displayed in the retrieved word list display of FIG. LIST-B is a list that is deleted from the external memory 211 of the information processing apparatus 101 when the transmission of mail is completed. FIG. 6 is displayed when the “display searched word list” button 702 in FIG. 7 is pressed.

  Here, FIG. 13 will be described.

  FIG. 13 shows an example of a destination list created from the address book when the flowchart of FIG. 11 is completed. The list created in FIG. 13 is stored in the external memory 211. The body text is searched for the keywords described in the address book, and the matched keywords are added to the [Search Hit] item. In 1301 of FIG. 13, the destination list is not in the order of high possibility of being transmitted yet.

  The flowchart in FIG. 12 is a flowchart for performing processing for rearranging the LIST-A created in FIG. 11, and is a detailed flow in step S1003 in FIG.

  In step S1201, the information processing apparatus 101 sets the destination having the largest number of keywords described in the [Search Hit] item registered in LIST-A as the top (first place) in the list. Rearrange. If there are a plurality of first places (the number of search hits is the same), the destination name (person name) whose search hit is the first is first placed.

  For example, if 401 in FIG. 4 includes “Yamamoto” in the sentence after “Today, ~”, the number of search hits for “Ii Tanaka” and “Ei Yamamoto” is the same in FIG. However, in the text, “Tanaka” is listed before “Yamamoto”, so “Tanaka I” is the top.

  Further, in this embodiment, the number of search hits is counted as 4 for “A”, “Y”, “Q”, and “Tanaka”, and for example, even if a plurality of “Tanaka” are described in the text, each is counted as one. However, if multiple "Tanaka" are listed, count the number of times. If multiple destinations have the same number of hits, select the destination that has the most number in the text. May be displayed.

  In step S <b> 1202, the information processing apparatus 101 performs rearrangement processing after the second place. After the 2nd place, sort in order of the number of hits of keywords such as affiliation excluding personal names. The reason for excluding a person's name is to prevent a person with the same surname having a different affiliation from being ranked higher.

  In addition, the information processing apparatus 101 keeps the same number of search hits in the order registered in LIST-A. Also, a new history that has been transmitted in the past may be ranked higher. In FIG. 14, the order registered in LIST-A is maintained.

  In step S1203, the information processing apparatus 101 performs a process of setting the background to gray for a keyword that does not match and whose past transmission count is zero.

  Further, the background may be grayed out when either a keyword match or the number of transmissions is 0.

  Also, the background is gray, but it only needs to be distinguishable from other items in the list. You can change the color, change the font size, or mark it. Other methods may be used.

  Steps S1201 to S1203 are application examples of the generation unit of the present invention, and an address associated with the attribute information of the user who is the acquisition source of the keyword specified as being included in the transmission data by the specifying unit is A list of a plurality of addresses stored in the storage means is generated so as to be higher.

  Here, FIG. 14 will be described. FIG. 14 shows an example of the destination list (LIST-A) when the flowchart of FIG. 12 ends. LIST-A is a list created on the memory. The destination list 1401 shown in FIG. 14 is obtained by rearranging the destination list 1301 shown in FIG. 13 in the order in which there is a high possibility of transmission based on the text. FIG. 7 shows the rearranged destination list 1401 shown in FIG. 14 displayed on the display 210 of the information processing apparatus 101.

  Specifically, FIG. 14 shows LIST-A after the flowchart of FIG. 12 is executed. The first place is “Tanaka I” with the largest number of search hits, and the second and subsequent places are in the order of the number of search hits. “Tanaka A” has hit two hits, “A” and “Tanaka”, but since the 2nd place does not count the name match, the rank is the same as “Yamamoto Oh” and Displayed in the order of registration.

  From the second place onwards, the name match is not counted, so “Tanaka U” has not been hit in the ranking decision, and “Yamamoto O” has the higher ranking.

  However, the background is grayed out because there is no keyword hit and there is no transmission history, and those with matching names are counted and not grayed out. Therefore, “Tanaka U” does not make the background gray, and “Yoshida Ka” makes the background gray.

  In the embodiment of the present invention, the configuration is described as being executed in the information processing apparatus, but may be configured to be executed by a multifunction machine, a FAX, or the like.

  The above is the description of the first embodiment. Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  In the second embodiment, for example, in the configuration of the address book in FIG. 3, an address that is not desired to be used as a keyword to be searched (for example, the address of the sender user) and user information associated with the address are registered. In the first embodiment, a method for solving that such an address may be included in an address candidate will be described.

First, in the second embodiment, an item “candidate necessity” is registered in the configuration of the address book of FIG.
In the flow of FIG. 11, the necessity of candidate is a process in which a user acquires a keyword described in an address book such as a person name, an address, and a affiliation from the registered contents of the address book. It is a flag indicating whether or not it is necessary. The necessity flag is set in advance by the user via the information processing apparatus 101.

  Next, the second embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The difference from the first embodiment is the processing after the information processing apparatus 101 acquires one address book in step S1101. After acquiring the address book in step S1101, the information processing apparatus 101 determines whether the “candidate necessity” item of the address book in FIG. 3 is “necessary”. When the item “necessity of candidate” is “necessary”, the information processing apparatus 101 proceeds to the processing after step S1102 and performs keyword acquisition processing. When the item “necessity of candidate” is “No”, the information processing apparatus 101 is excluded from the processing target after step S1102 and proceeds to the processing of the next address book candidate in step S1101.

As described above, according to the second embodiment, it is possible to exclude an address that the user does not want to enter as a search keyword candidate and user information associated with the address.
This is the end of the description of the second embodiment.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a mechanism that suppresses setting of an incorrect address when an address for transmitting data is set by a user.

  Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention can take an embodiment as a system, apparatus, method, program, recording medium, or the like. Specifically, the present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices, or may be applied to an apparatus composed of a single device.

  The program according to the present invention is a program that allows a computer to execute the processing method of each flowchart, and the storage medium of the present invention stores a program that allows the computer to execute the processing method of each flowchart. The program in the present invention may be a program for each processing method of each device.

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

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

  As a recording medium for supplying the program, 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, silicon A disk or the like can be used.

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

  Furthermore, after the program read from the recording medium is written to the memory provided in the function expansion board inserted into the computer or the function expansion unit connected to the computer, the function expansion board is based on the instructions of the program code. It goes without saying that the case where the CPU or the like provided in 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.

  The present invention may be applied to a system constituted by a plurality of devices or an apparatus constituted by 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 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 a program 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. In addition, all the structures which combined each embodiment mentioned above and its modification are also included in this invention.

101 information processing apparatus 102 acquisition unit 103 reception unit 104 identification unit 105 generation unit 106 display unit

Claims (7)

An information processing apparatus that transmits and receives data,
Storage means for storing a plurality of addresses indicating data transmission destinations and user attribute information associated with each address;
Obtaining means for acquiring a keyword used to identify an address that is more likely to transmit the data, from the attribute information of the user associated with each address stored in the storage means;
Receiving means for receiving input of transmission data to be transmitted;
Specifying means for specifying whether the keyword acquired by the acquiring means is included in the transmission data received by the receiving means;
A list of a plurality of addresses stored in the storage means is arranged such that an address associated with the attribute information of the user who is the acquisition source of the keyword specified as being included in the transmission data by the specifying means is higher. Generating means for generating;
Display means for displaying the list generated by the generating means;
An information processing apparatus comprising: The acquisition means acquires a plurality of the keywords from a single attribute information of the user,
The generating means generates the list so that an address associated with the attribute information of the user having a large number of keywords specified as being included in the transmission data by the specifying means is higher. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1.   In the case where the number of keywords specified as being included in the transmission data by the specifying unit is the same, the generation unit acquires the keyword previously input by the transmission data among the keywords The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the list is generated such that an address associated with the attribute information of the user is higher.   The generating unit is configured so that an address associated with the attribute information of the user that is an acquisition source of a keyword that is not specified as being included in the transmission data by the specifying unit can be identified from other addresses. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a list is generated. A designation receiving means for receiving designation of an address to which the data is to be transmitted from the list displayed by the display means;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a transmission unit that transmits data received by the reception unit to an address received by the specification reception unit. A control method for an information processing apparatus including a storage unit that transmits and receives data and stores a plurality of addresses indicating data transmission destinations and user attribute information associated with each address,
A keyword used by the acquisition unit of the information processing device to identify an address that is more likely to transmit the data from user attribute information associated with each address stored in the storage unit. An acquisition process to acquire;
An accepting step in which the accepting means of the information processing device accepts input of transmission data to be transmitted;
A specifying step of specifying whether the keyword acquired by the acquiring step is included in the transmission data received by the receiving step;
The storage means so that the address associated with the attribute information of the user who is the acquisition source of the keyword identified as being included in the transmission data by the generating step of the information processing apparatus is higher Generating a list of a plurality of addresses stored in
A display step in which the display unit of the information processing apparatus displays the list generated in the generation step;
A control method comprising: A program that can be read and executed by an information processing apparatus that includes a storage unit that transmits and receives data, stores a plurality of addresses indicating the transmission destination of the data, and user attribute information associated with each address,
The information processing apparatus;
Obtaining means for acquiring a keyword used to identify an address that is more likely to transmit the data, from the attribute information of the user associated with each address stored in the storage means;
Receiving means for receiving input of transmission data to be transmitted;
Specifying means for specifying whether the keyword acquired by the acquiring means is included in the transmission data received by the receiving means;
A list of a plurality of addresses stored in the storage means is arranged such that an address associated with the attribute information of the user who is the acquisition source of the keyword specified as being included in the transmission data by the specifying means is higher. Generating means for generating;
A program that functions as display means for displaying the list generated by the generating means.

Images