JPH10290256A - Received electronic mail report device and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a received electronic mail report device provided with an agent function by which a content of a received electronic mail is reported more efficiently and more understandably in the case of making report processing of the received electronic mail to the user. SOLUTION: An information processing system is realized, which is provided with an agent function where in the case of reporting a received electronic mail not open to the user, an agent device 20 conducts voice output of total number of received electronic mails not open and number of senders or discriminates emergency of the received electronic mail, generates a summary text of the received electronic mail and makes a voice output of it when an electronic mail requiring emergency is included, and generates a summary text of an added file and makes a voice output to the user when the electronic mail with an additional file is received so as to attain make content report of the received electronic mail to the user efficiently and more easily understandably.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an e-mail reporting device having an agent function for reporting an e-mail received by a terminal device to a recipient, and a storage medium for storing a processing program therefor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, as personal computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs) have become widespread, the number of individual users who use these devices for purposes such as managing various types of personal information and their own schedules has increased. On the other hand, computer networks such as LAN, WAN, and the Internet have been developed, and communication between a plurality of computers has been actively performed.

[0005] Along with this, information terminals such as personal computers and PDAs having a communication function are connected to a communication network such as the Internet, and electronic mail is frequently exchanged between the terminals through the communication network. Was.

[0004] Electronic mail (hereinafter referred to as electronic mail or mail) is used by a sender to send information to be sent from the terminal device of the sender to the other party together with the mail address of the other party in the form of character data, audio data or video data. The e-mail is transmitted to the destination terminal device via a communication network such as a public line, and the e-mail recipient is transmitted from the sender by opening and browsing the e-mail arriving at the terminal device. Obtain and recognize the information. That is, it is a kind of asynchronous communication using a communication network.

[0005] However, when the recipient attempts to view the e-mail arriving at the terminal device, for example, when a plurality of e-mails are received in a mailbox or the like, an operation such as checking each e-mail is performed. Without this, the sender and title of all received e-mails could not be known.

Therefore, an agent (agent) function for reporting the contents of the received e-mail to the recipient by voice or display so that the sender and title of the e-mail can be efficiently known. Development and commercialization of the provided software are being pursued.

The software with the agent function is introduced into an information terminal such as a personal computer.
The terminal agent automatically reports the contents of the received e-mail to the recipient user by voice or display, and performs the work of reporting the received e-mail while reducing the operation burden on the user. I want to make it.

[0008]

However, such conventional software for reporting received e-mails with an agent function can reduce the burden on the user and reduce the operational burden on the user. However, the following points were insufficient as a function to realize the reporting work.

That is, in the conventional report operation of received e-mail, the report operation of a received e-mail stored in a terminal device such as an information processing device to a user is performed by the sender, urgency, or presence or absence of an attached file. , Etc., all the same way (for example, when you open your mailbox,
The received contents of the e-mail are displayed at a predetermined position on the screen, or notified by voice). For this reason, the user must open the received e-mail and check the contents of the e-mail and the presence of attached files, and also the number of received e-mails for each sender and the urgency of each e-mail Could not be known immediately.

[0010] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide, when reporting an unopened received e-mail to a user who is a recipient, to output the total number of unopened e-mails received and the number of e-mails for each sender, Alternatively, the degree of urgency of the received e-mail is determined, and if an urgent e-mail is included, a summary of the e-mail is created and output to the user by voice, and further, an attached file is attached. If there is an e-mail, the user can make a summary of the attached file and output it to the user by voice, so that the contents of the received e-mail can be reported more efficiently and easily to the user. An object of the present invention is to realize an information processing system having an agent function.

[0011]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
A received e-mail report device that is installed integrally with or separate from the information processing device and that reports the contents of an e-mail received by the information processing device from an external terminal device, the contents of the e-mail received to a recipient When reporting, calculating means for calculating the number of unsent received e-mails by sender at that time, reading means for reading out the sender and title of each received e-mail for unopened received e-mails, calculation Voice output means for converting the number of senders calculated by the means and the sender and title of each received electronic mail read by the reading means into voice and outputting the voice.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when reporting the content of the received e-mail to the recipient, the number of unopened e-mails at that time by sender and the sender for each e-mail And, by converting the title to audio and outputting it, when there are a plurality of unopened e-mails, the user can know the number of received e-mails for each sender, and as a result, the user can see the unopened e-mails You can immediately know how many e-mails have arrived from which senders without having to check the senders individually, and it is easy to get an idea of how to read multiple unopened e-mails Become.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a report apparatus for a received e-mail, which is provided integrally or separately with the information processing apparatus, and which performs a content report on the e-mail received from the external terminal apparatus by the information processing apparatus. Analyzing means for opening the unopened received e-mail at that time and analyzing the contents when reporting the contents of the e-mail received to the recipient; and unopened received e-mail analyzed by the analyzing means. A discriminating means for discriminating the urgency of the electronic mail from the contents of the mail, an extracting means for extracting an e-mail determined to be highly urgent by the discriminating means from the unopened received electronic mail, and an extracting means for extracting the electronic mail. Voice output means for converting text data and voice data of an e-mail with high urgency into voice and outputting the voice.

According to the second aspect of the invention, when a content report on the received e-mail is sent to the recipient, an unopened e-mail is opened at that time, the contents are analyzed, and the contents of the e-mail are analyzed. The degree of urgency is determined, e-mails determined to be of high urgency are extracted from unopened e-mails, and the sentence data and voice data of each e-mail are converted to voice and output. When there are a plurality of opened e-mails, the e-mail with a high degree of urgency is automatically opened and output as a voice, so that the user can know the contents without opening the e-mail.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a report apparatus for a received e-mail, which is provided integrally or separately with the information processing apparatus, and wherein the information processing apparatus reports a content regarding an e-mail received from an external terminal device. A reading means for opening an unopened received e-mail at that time and reading the sentence data when reporting the contents of the received e-mail to the recipient, and a summary sentence based on the sentence data read by the reading means. And audio output means for outputting, as audio data, the contents of the summary sentence generated by the generation means.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, when a content report on the received e-mail is sent to the user who is the recipient, the sent e-mail which is unopened at that time is opened and read. By automatically creating a summary sentence from the data and audibly outputting the summary sentence, the user can know the summary of the text content of the e-mail without opening the unopened e-mail and performing the processing work. it can.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a report apparatus for a received e-mail, which is provided integrally or separately with the information processing apparatus, and which performs a content report on the e-mail received from the external terminal apparatus. At the time of reporting the contents of the received e-mail to the recipient, the sentence data of the specified received e-mail is converted to voice and output, and the attached file is attached to the specified received e-mail. In this case, there is provided a voice output unit for opening the attached file, converting the document data of the file content into voice, and outputting the voice.

According to the fifth aspect of the invention, when a content report on the received e-mail is sent to the user who is the recipient, the text data of the specified received e-mail is converted into voice and output. If an attached file is attached to the specified received e-mail, the attached file is opened and the document data of the file content is output as voice, so that only the e-mail text of the specified e-mail is output. In addition, if there is an attached file, the content of the attached file is also converted to audio and output, so it is determined whether the attached file is attached to the e-mail and the attached file attached to the e-mail is specified And then open it without doing any of the work you did,
The user can know the presence or absence of the attached file and its contents.

[0019]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a receiving e-mail reporting apparatus according to the present invention.

First, the configuration of the present embodiment will be described.

FIGS. 1 and 2 show an information processing system 1 to which a received e-mail report device of the present invention and its storage medium are applied.
FIG.

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

In the information processing system 1 shown in FIG. 1, an information processing apparatus 10 for performing a main process and an agent apparatus 20 for performing a report operation of a received electronic mail are connected via a data line L.

Incidentally, the information processing apparatus 10 and the agent apparatus 20 are installed integrally or separately, and when they are installed separately, they are connected by wire or connected by infrared communication or wireless communication. Shall be.

The information processing device 10 includes a personal computer (PC) 11 and a display device 1.
2, key input device 13, storage device 14, storage medium 14
a, a communication interface 15, and the like.

The personal computer (PC) 11
An application program designated from among the system programs stored in the storage device 14 and various application programs corresponding to the system is stored in a program storage area in a built-in RAM (Random Access Memory) (not shown). Various instructions or data to be input are stored in the built-in RAM,
In accordance with the input instruction and the input data, various processes are executed in accordance with the application program stored in the built-in RAM, and the processing results are stored in a storage destination in the storage device 14 instructed by the key input device 13 and displayed. It is displayed on the device 12.

In addition, the personal computer 11 responds to a request for starting an application program, a request for transferring received e-mail, etc. relating to a report of received e-mail input from the agent device 20 via the data line L. Each processing is performed on the information database stored in the server, and the processing result is transferred to the agent device 20.

The display device 12 is a CRT (Cathode Ray Tu).
be) A display, a liquid crystal display, or the like, which displays display data input from the personal computer 11, and the contents and processing steps of the e-mail output when the personal computer 11 executes the report processing of the received e-mail. And so on.

The key input device 13 is an input device for selecting a menu or inputting various data by key operation. The key input device 13 includes various keys such as a character input key, a mode key, a numeric keypad, and a function key. Is output to the personal computer 11.

The storage device 14 has a storage medium 14a in which programs, data, and the like are stored in advance, and the storage medium 14a is constituted by a magnetic or optical recording medium or a semiconductor memory. The storage medium 14a is fixedly provided in the storage device 14, or is removably mounted. The storage medium 14a includes the above-mentioned system program, various application programs corresponding to the system, and a report operation of received mail. A mail processing program, a summary sentence creating program, etc., a received mail file serving as a database for each processing or management program, data processed by each processing program, and the like are stored.

The program, data, and the like stored in the storage medium 14a may be configured to be received and stored by the communication interface 15 from another device connected via a communication network 30 such as a public line network. Further, a storage device having the above storage medium is provided on the other device side connected via the communication network 30, and the program and data stored in the storage medium 14a are used via a communication line. You may.

The communication interface 15 is an interface connecting the personal computer 11 and the communication network 30. The communication interface 15 receives an electronic mail transmitted from the external terminal device 40 via the communication network 30 and transfers the electronic mail to the personal computer 11.

The communication network 30 is a communication line for transmitting and receiving electronic mail to and from an information processing device or a portable information terminal which is an external terminal device 40. There is a variety of things, from large to large-scale ones that are connected via public lines.

The external terminal device 40 is an information processing device or a portable information terminal on the sender side that transmits an e-mail via the communication network 30.

Next, the configuration of the agent device 20 shown in FIG. 1 will be described.

FIG. 2 shows the agent device 20 shown in FIG.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an outline of the constituent device of FIG.

The agent device 20 shown in FIG. 2 has an input / output interface computer block 20a and an agent computer block 20b.
They are roughly divided into

The input / output interface computer block 20a includes the input / output interface computer 2
1 is connected to a voice input device 22, a voice output device 23, a display device 24, and a storage device 25. The agent computer block 20b includes a storage device 27, a storage medium 27a, and a PC interface. 28 are connected.

In the input / output interface computer block 20a, the input voice command of the user is converted into voice command data by the voice input device 22 and input to the input / output interface computer 21, and the voice stored in the storage device 25 is stored. A semantic analysis program stored in the storage device 25 that recognizes the content of the voice instruction data by the recognition program, and classifies the request content related to communication processing such as transmission / reception of an e-mail from the recognized voice instruction data and the semantic content. And outputs the analysis result to the agent computer block 20b.

In the input / output interface computer block 20a, when the personal computer 11 performs the report processing of the e-mail received in response to the user's instruction, the data relating to the number of receptions from the agent computer block 20b of the agent device 20 and the sender. Alternatively, text data (or voice data) or summary text data of the received e-mail is received, the received data is converted into voice data by a voice conversion program stored in the storage device 14, and voice is output by the voice output device 23. Output.

The voice input device 22 has a function of performing A / D conversion processing on a user's voice instruction input to a built-in microphone and outputting it to the input / output interface computer 21 as a digital voice signal.

The audio output device 23 performs D / A conversion processing on audio data as a digital signal input from the input / output interface computer 21 into an analog signal.
It has the function of outputting sound from the built-in speaker.

The display device 24 is a CRT (Cathode Ray Tu).
be) A display, a liquid crystal display, or the like, which displays display data input from the input / output interface computer 21 and displays the agent computer 26
Displays the data input during each processing performed when reporting the received e-mail, the progress of the processing, and the like.

The storage device 25 stores the speech recognition processing program, the semantic analysis processing program, the speech conversion processing program, various dictionary data used in the semantic analysis processing, and the like, which are executed by the input / output interface computer 21 as described above. Remember.

Agent computer block 20b
Then, based on the agent basic program stored in the storage device 27, the received e-mail is reported. More specifically, the communication network 3
0, the personal computer 11 receives the unopened received e-mail stored in the storage device 14 via the voice input or key input by the user to the agent computer 26 so as to report the content of the received e-mail. When instructed, the agent computer 26 activates the mail management program, reads the unopened received e-mails, counts the total number of the received e-mails, counts the number of mails by sender, and receives the unopened e-mails. The total number of e-mails, the number of e-mails by sender, and the sender, title, date and time of reception of each received e-mail are output to the input / output interface computer block 20a, and are output as audio from the audio output device 23.

If the unopened received e-mail includes an urgent e-mail, the sender and title of the urgent e-mail are output to the input / output interface computer block 20a. A voice is output from the voice output device 23, the urgent e-mail is opened, and the text data of the mail is read.
The read sentence data is transmitted to the personal computer 11, the summary sentence creating program is started in the personal computer 11, the sentence data (or voice data) is summarized, and the summarized sentence data (or voice data) is transferred to the agent computer 26. And outputs it to the input / output interface computer block 20a. Then, the audio data is converted into audio data and the audio output device 2
Then, a summary sentence is output as speech from Step 3.

Further, when there is an e-mail to which an attached file is attached among the unopened received e-mails,
The user is asked by voice whether or not to open the file. If the user instructs to open the file, a program to open the attached file is started, the attached file is opened, and the sentence data is read. The read sentence data is transmitted to the personal computer 11, the sentence data is summarized in the personal computer 11, and the summarized sentence data is received by the agent computer 26 and output to the input / output interface computer block 20a. The audio data is converted into audio data, and the audio output device 23 outputs the summary sentence as audio.

When the user instructs the reading of the individual mail, the individual mail is opened, the text data (or voice data) is read, and the read text data (or voice data) is input / output. The output is output to the interface computer block 20a, and the voice text is output from the voice output device 23 as voice.

The storage device 27 has a storage medium 27a in which programs, data and the like are stored in advance, and this storage medium 27a is constituted by a magnetic or optical recording medium or a semiconductor memory. The storage medium 27a is fixedly provided in the storage device 27 or is detachably mounted. The storage medium 27a has an agent basic program executed by the agent computer 26 and various types of programs corresponding to the basic program. It stores a processing program as a program, a received e-mail report processing program, and the like, and also stores various data related to e-mail report processing.

The program, data, and the like stored in the storage medium 27a may be received and stored by a PC interface 28 from another device connected via a communication network 30 such as a public network. Further, a storage device provided with the above storage medium is provided on the other device side connected via the communication network 30, and the program and data stored in the storage medium 27a are used via a communication line. You may.

Next, the mail file of the received electronic mail received by the personal computer 11 and stored in the storage device 14 is read by the agent device 20 and the read received electronic mail stored in the storage device 27 together with the urgency thereof. Will be described.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a mail file of the read reception e-mail stored in the storage device 7 of the agent device 20.

Each item of the mail file of the read / received electronic mail includes a sender, a title, a reception date / time, an urgency, and the like.

The sender field describes the name of the sender who transmitted the received e-mail, the title field describes the title name of the received e-mail, and the date and time of reception indicates whether the received e-mail was received. The received date and time of the reception are described.

The number of received e-mails for each sender is calculated from the item contents of the sender.

In the item of the degree of urgency, the agent computer 26 determines the degree of urgency of the received electronic mail by judging from the contents of the mail and the sender, and determines the degree of urgency, for example, H ( Urgency), M
(Emergency level is normal) and L (Low urgency level) are described in the item of urgency level of the received e-mail in three stages.

Then, for example, the sender, title, and reception date and time of the received electronic mail determined to be H (high urgency) are urgently output to the user from the audio output device 23 as an urgent mail. Then, the contents of the mail are summarized and transferred to the agent device 20, and the summary sentence is output from the sound output device 23 as sound.

The example shown in FIG. 3 will be described in detail. The date and time of reception of an e-mail from the sender “A” titled “OOO” is “April 1 PM 1:00”.
The urgency is "H (high urgency)" and the mail is urgent, so the sender,
The title and the reception date and time are output as voice from the audio output device 23, the contents of the mail are summarized and transferred to the agent device 20 in the personal computer 11, and the summary is output as audio from the audio output device 23. Also, the e-mail from the sender "B" titled "@" and the e-mail from the sender "C" titled "xxx" have an urgency of "L (urgency is Low) "and" M (normal urgency) "
Only the sender, title, and reception date and time are output as the audio output device 2
3 to output audio.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

A process of reporting a received electronic mail executed by the agent device 20 will be described.

FIGS. 4 to 7 are flowcharts relating to the incoming e-mail notification processing executed by the agent computer (AC) 26 of the agent apparatus 20.

The programs for realizing the functions described in this flowchart are stored in the storage medium 27a in the form of program codes readable by a CPU (not shown) in the agent computer (AC) 26.

First, in step S1, it is determined whether there is an instruction to report a received e-mail from the personal computer (PC) 11. If there is an instruction to report a received e-mail, the process proceeds to step S2. In this case, step S1 is performed again.

In step S2, when there is an instruction to report the received electronic mail, a command to start the mail management software stored in the storage device 14 is transmitted to the personal computer 11 to start the mail management software. And
Move to step S3.

In step S3, the unopened received mail stored in the storage medium 14a is read out by the started mail management software, stored in the RAM (not shown) of the agent computer 26, and the process proceeds to step S4.

In step S4, the total number of read unopened received mails is counted and stored in a RAM (not shown), and the flow advances to step S5.

In step S5, the number of read out unopened received mails by sender is counted, and R (not shown) is counted.
Store it in the AM and proceed to step S6.

In step S 6, the total number of unopened received mails and the number of mails by sender are output as sound from the sound output device 23 via the input / output interface computer 21.
Move to step S7.

At this time, as for the number of cases by sender, the sender who receives a large number of received mails and the number of received mails are output with priority.

In step S7, the sender, title, and reception date and time of each of the read unopened received mails are output as voice, and the flow advances to step S8.

In step S8, it is determined whether or not the sender, title, and reception date and time of all unopened mails have been output as voices. If the above voice output has been performed for all mails, the process proceeds to step S9. Then, the process returns to step S7 to output the sender, title, and reception date and time of the mail by voice if there is any mail for which the voice output has not been performed.

In step S9, it is determined whether or not the read outgoing mail includes an urgent mail. If the urgent mail is included, the flow shifts to step S10 to include the urgent mail. If not, the process proceeds to step S22.

In step S10, the sender and title of the mail requiring urgency are output from the voice output device 23 as voice, and the flow advances to step S11.

In step S11, an urgent mail is opened to read the mail contents, that is, text data (or voice data), and the flow advances to step S12.

In step S12, the read sentence data (in the case of voice data, converted into sentence data) is transmitted to the personal computer 11, the sentence contents are summarized by the summary sentence creating program, and the process proceeds to step S13. .

In this embodiment, the PC 11 summarizes the sentence data.
Has a feature that can summarize sentence data,
This may be performed by the agent device 20.

In step S13, the summarized sentence data is received from the personal computer 11, and the flow advances to step S14.

In step S14, the received summary sentence is output as a voice from the voice output device 23, and the process proceeds to step S1.
Move to 5.

In step S15, it is determined whether there is a file attached to the received e-mail. If there is an attached file, the process proceeds to step S16, and if not, the process proceeds to step S22.

In step S16, if there is an attached file, the user is instructed by voice to instruct the processing (for example, voice output such as "Do you want to open the attached file?"), And the process proceeds to step S17.

In step S17, it is determined whether or not an instruction to open the attached file has been issued. If there has been an instruction to open the attached file, the flow shifts to step S18. Move to S22.

At step S18, the program corresponding to the attached file is started, and the routine goes to step S19.

At step S19, the corresponding attached file is opened, the file is read, and the routine goes to step S20.

In step S20, the read sentence data of the attached file (converted to sentence data in the case of voice data) is transmitted to the personal computer 11, and the sentence data is summarized by the summary sentence creating program, and then the process proceeds to step S21. Move to

In step S21, the summarized sentence data is received from the personal computer 11, and the flow advances to step S22.

In step S22, the received summary sentence is output as a voice from the voice output device 23, and the process proceeds to step S2.
Move to 3.

In step S23, the user is instructed by voice to read out individual mails (for example, voice output such as "Do you want to read out received e-mails individually?") And the process proceeds to step S24.

In step S24, if there is an instruction to read out the individual mail from the user, the process proceeds to step S25, and if there is no instruction to read out, this routine ends.

In step S25, the individual mail specified by the user is opened, the text of the mail is read, and the flow advances to step S26.

In step S26, the text of the mail is output as voice from the voice output device 23, and this routine ends.

Thus, the flow relating to the report processing of the received e-mail executed by the agent device 20 ends.

As described above, in the present embodiment, when reporting an unopened received e-mail to the user, the agent device 20 transmits the total number of unopened e-mails received and the number of e-mails for each sender. Output, or judge the urgency of the received e-mail, and if an urgent e-mail is included, create a summary of the e-mail and output it to the user by voice, or attach an attached file If there is an e-mail attached to the e-mail, create a summary of the attached file and output it to the user by voice, so that the contents of the received e-mail are more efficient and easy for the user to understand The information processing system 1 having an agent function capable of reporting can be realized.

[0093]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the user can immediately grasp the number of e-mails from which sender and without checking the sender of the unopened e-mail individually. In addition to this, it is easy to find a browsing method when browsing a plurality of unopened e-mails.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, if there are a plurality of unopened e-mails, the urgent e-mails are automatically opened and output as voice, so that the user does not open the e-mails. You can know its contents.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the user can know the summary of the contents of the electronic mail without opening the unopened electronic mail and performing the processing operation.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, even when the unopened electronic mail contains voice data and the contents of the mail are expressed by the voice data, the unopened electronic mail is opened and the processing operation is performed. Instead, the user can get a summary of the text content of the email.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, it is determined whether or not an attached file is attached to the received e-mail, and the operation performed when the attached file attached to the e-mail is designated and opened is performed. Without this, the user can know the presence or absence of the attached file and its contents.

According to the present invention, when the received e-mail and the attached file attached to the e-mail include audio data, and the contents of the e-mail or the file are expressed by the audio data, In addition, the user can determine whether the received e-mail has an attached file, and if the user specifies the attached file attached to the e-mail and then opens it, the user does not perform any work, You can know the contents.

According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, when reporting the content of the received e-mail to the recipient, the number of received e-mails that have not been opened at that time is calculated, and the number of received e-mails that have not been opened is received. Read out the sender and title of each received e-mail from the e-mail, and execute an application program that automatically outputs the calculated number of senders and the sender and title of each received e-mail by computer. can do.

According to the invention described in claim 8, when a content report on the received e-mail is sent to the recipient, the unopened received e-mail is opened at that time, the contents are analyzed, and the contents of the e-mail are analyzed. The degree of urgency is determined, an e-mail that is determined to be urgent is extracted from unopened received e-mails, and the sentence data and voice data of the e-mail are automatically converted to voice and output. The application program to be performed can be executed on a computer.

According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, when a content report on the received e-mail is sent to the recipient, the unopened received e-mail is opened at that time, the sentence data is read out, and the summary sentence is read. An application program that automatically creates and outputs the content of the created summary sentence as audio data can be executed by a computer.

According to the tenth aspect of the present invention, when the unopened electronic mail has voice data as the mail content, the unopened received electronic mail is opened and the voice data is further read in addition to the text data. An application program that automatically converts the contents of the summary sentence created from the read sentence data and the sound data into sound and outputs the sound can be executed by the computer.

According to the eleventh aspect of the present invention, when reporting the content of the received e-mail to the recipient,
The text data of the specified received e-mail is converted to voice and output. If the specified received e-mail has an attached file, the attached file is opened and the document data of the file content is opened. Can be executed on a computer by which an application program that automatically converts and outputs a sound is output.

According to the twelfth aspect of the present invention, the voice data is included in the mail content of the specified received electronic mail or the file content of the attached file attached to the specified received electronic mail. In this case, the computer can execute an application program that automatically converts text data and voice data into voice and outputs the voice data.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an overall configuration of an information processing system 1 according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an outline of a constituent device of an agent device 20 shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a mail file of a read received e-mail stored in a storage device 7 of an agent device 20.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart relating to a notification process of an incoming electronic mail executed by an agent computer (AC) 26 of the agent device 20.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart relating to an incoming e-mail notification process executed by an agent computer (AC) 26 of the agent device 20;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a notification process of an incoming electronic mail executed by an agent computer (AC) 26 of the agent device 20.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart relating to an incoming electronic mail notification process executed by an agent computer (AC) 26 of the agent device 20.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 1 information processing system 10 information processing device 11 personal computer (PC) 12 display device 13 key input device 14 storage device 14a storage medium 15 communication interface 20 agent device 20a input / output interface computer block 20b agent computer block 21 input / output interface computer 22 voice Input device 23 Audio output device 24 Display device 25 Storage device 26 Agent computer 27 Storage device 27a Storage medium 28 PC interface 30 Communication network 40 External terminal device

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[Claims] 1. A received e-mail report device which is installed integrally with or separately from an information processing device, and wherein the information processing device reports contents regarding an e-mail received from an external terminal device, Calculating a number of senders of the unopened received e-mails at the time when reporting the contents of the received e-mails; and a sender and title for each received e-mails with respect to the unopened received e-mails. And a voice output unit that converts the number of senders calculated by the calculation unit, and the sender and title of each received email read by the reading unit into voice and outputs the voice. A report device for a received e-mail. 2. A report device for a received e-mail, which is installed integrally or separately with the information processing device, and wherein the information processing device reports the contents of an e-mail received from an external terminal device, When performing a content report on the received e-mail, the analyzing means for opening the unopened received e-mail at that time and analyzing the contents, and the contents of the unopened received e-mail analyzed by the analyzing means Determining means for determining the degree of urgency of the e-mail; extracting means for extracting, from the unopened received e-mail, an e-mail determined to have a high degree of urgency by the determining means; Voice output means for converting text data and voice data of a high-frequency email into voice and outputting the voice; and a report device for a received email. . 3. A receiving e-mail reporting device which is installed integrally with or separately from an information processing device, and wherein the information processing device reports contents related to an e-mail received from an external terminal device. A reading unit for opening the unopened received e-mail and reading the sentence data at the time of reporting the contents of the received e-mail, and a summary for creating a summary sentence from the sentence data read by the reading unit A report apparatus for a received electronic mail, comprising: a sentence creating unit; and a sound output unit that converts the content of the summary sentence created by the summary sentence creating unit into sound and outputs the sound. 4. When the unopened electronic mail has voice data as its mail content, the reading means opens the unopened received electronic mail and further reads out the voice data in addition to the sentence data. The abstract sentence creating means creates an abstract sentence from the sentence data and the audio data read by the reading means, and the audio output means converts the contents of the abstract sentence created by the abstract sentence creating means into voice. The report apparatus for received e-mail according to claim 3, wherein the report is output. 5. A receiving e-mail reporting device which is installed integrally with or separately from an information processing device, and wherein the information processing device reports contents regarding an e-mail received from an external terminal device, When performing a content report on the received e-mail, the text data of the specified received e-mail is converted to voice and output, and if the specified received e-mail has an attached file, A report device for a received e-mail, comprising: voice output means for opening the attached file, converting document data of the file content into voice, and outputting the voice. 6. The voice output means when voice data is included in the mail content of the specified received e-mail or the file content of an attached file attached to the specified received e-mail. Converting the voice data together with the text data into voice and outputting the voice data.
A report device for the received e-mail described. 7. A storage medium having a program code which can be executed by a computer, wherein when a content report on the received e-mail is sent to a receiver, the number of senders of the unopened received e-mail at that time is determined by the sender. A computer-executable program code for calculating, a computer-executable program code for reading out the sender and title of each received e-mail for an unopened received e-mail, and a calculated number of senders And a computer-executable program code for converting the read sender and title of each received e-mail into audio and outputting the audio. 8. A storage medium having a computer-executable program code, wherein when a content report on a received e-mail is sent to a recipient, an unopened received e-mail is opened at that time and the content is opened. A computer-executable program code for analyzing an unopened received email which is analyzed, and a computer-executable program code for determining the urgency of the email from the content of the unopened received email. A computer-executable program code for extracting e-mails determined to be of high urgency from received e-mails, and text and voice data of the e-mails with high urgency to be extracted are converted to voice and output Computer-executable program code for storing a program including Storage medium characterized. 9. A storage medium having a program code which can be executed by a computer, wherein when a content report on the received e-mail is sent to a recipient, an unopened received e-mail is opened at that time, and the sentence is sent. A computer-executable program code for reading data, a computer-executable program code for creating a summary sentence from the read sentence data, and the content of the created summary sentence are output as audio data. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program including: a computer-executable program code. 10. A storage medium having a computer-executable program code, wherein, when an unopened e-mail has voice data as its mail content, an unopened received e-mail is opened to open text data. A computer-executable program code for further reading voice data in addition to a computer-executable program code for creating a summary sentence from the read sentence data and voice data; and 10. A program comprising: a computer-executable program code for converting contents into sound and outputting the converted sound;
The storage medium according to the above. 11. A storage medium having a program code which can be executed by a computer, wherein when a content report on the received e-mail is sent to a recipient, text data of the specified received e-mail is converted into voice. If an attached file is attached to the specified received e-mail, the attached file is opened, and the document data of the file content is converted into voice when the attached e-mail is attached. A storage medium storing a program including: a computer-executable program code for outputting; 12. A storage medium having a computer-executable program code, wherein the contents of a specified received e-mail or the contents of an attached file attached to the specified received e-mail are 12. The storage device according to claim 11, wherein, when voice data is included, a program including a computer-executable program code for converting the voice data into voice and outputting the voice data together with the text data is stored. Medium.