JP4445638B2 - Communication terminal device and control method thereof - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a communication terminal device capable of sending and receiving mail, and more particularly to a communication terminal device capable of searching for a mail having a search item related to a displayed mail and a control method thereof. It is.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, with the widespread use of electronic mail, various communication items such as conferences and meetings, guidance, and the like have been performed using electronic mail. For this reason, terminals capable of performing this e-mail have been widened and miniaturized from information processing apparatuses such as personal computers and portable terminals to mobile phones and the like. Accordingly, the screens for displaying emails have also varied from large screens to small screens, and various researches have been made on methods for displaying received emails using screens of various sizes. .
[0003]
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-110318 discloses an information communication apparatus capable of easily displaying related data of a sender in a received electronic mail. When the sender information area in the received mail displayed on the display screen is designated, the sender's related information stored in the storage device is searched based on the designated sender information, and the retrieved related information is retrieved. Information is read and displayed.
[0004]
In Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-312047, title information is extracted from received mail, and list data including a desired title item is extracted based on this information, so that processing time such as display and search of mail is performed. Has been disclosed.
[0005]
In Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-64879, in addition to the body of an electronic mail, information for performing partial display control is transmitted and received, so that an electronic mail with only a list of characters is partially displayed by various display processes. An electronic mail transmission / reception device that facilitates emphasis or the like is disclosed.
[0006]
In Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-326822, when displaying a mail list, the color to be displayed is determined according to information included in bibliographic information such as the name of the mail sender, the date and time of reception, and the importance. Thus, an efficient mail display device is disclosed when searching for a specific mail.
[0007]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, the technique described above still has the following problems.
[0008]
In the above-described technique, when a mail is received, the user can easily search for a specific mail. However, no matter what technique is used, even if there is another mail related to the mail while opening one mail, the existence of the mail is not known.
[0009]
For example, when a guide about a certain meeting is sent by e-mail, and then a change guide e-mail is sent due to a change in the meeting schedule or location, the person who received the e-mail is reading the pre-change guidance. Sometimes, even if you received a change notification email, you will not know that the change has occurred until you end the email you are reading and read the change notification email.
[0010]
Also, for example, when a meeting contact is sent by e-mail at a certain date and time, even if another meeting contact is sent in the same time zone before and after that e-mail, While reading, I don't know that I had another meeting.
[0011]
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and the object of the present invention is to check another mail related to the mail while checking one mail in a communication terminal device capable of handling the mail. It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication terminal device and a control method for the communication terminal device that can inform a user that there is a related mail when receiving the mail.
[0012]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
A communication terminal device according to the present invention is a communication terminal device that transmits / receives e-mail information including bibliographic information and text information, and a search item setting unit that presets an arbitrary item in bibliographic information of e-mail information as a search target; Mail storing means for storing e-mail information; display means for displaying desired e-mail information from a plurality of e-mail information stored in the mail storing means; and a bibliography included in the displayed e-mail information A search unit for extracting items set by the search item setting unit from information, and searching for e-mail information including the items from a plurality of e-mail information stored in the mail storage unit; and the search Control means for displaying on the display means the results retrieved by the means corresponding to the display of the desired e-mail information; And features.
[0013]
The communication terminal device according to the present invention further includes reference setting means for setting a reference for search, and the search means includes a plurality of electronic devices stored in the mail storage means in accordance with the reference set by the reference setting means. It is characterized in that desired electronic mail information is searched from the mail information.
[0014]
In the communication terminal device according to the present invention, when the control means displays desired electronic mail information on the display means, the display form of the bibliographic information part that is the search target of the displayed electronic mail information is changed. It is characterized by being displayed.
[0015]
The communication terminal device according to the present invention is characterized in that the control means displays the corresponding e-mail information on the display means when the e-mail information including the item extracted by the search means is searched. .
[0016]
The communication terminal device control method according to the present invention is a communication terminal device control method for transmitting and receiving e-mail information including bibliographic information and text information. Any item in the bibliographic information of e-mail information is searched. Included in the step of presetting, the step of storing e-mail information, the step of displaying desired e-mail information from the plurality of stored e-mail information, and the displayed e-mail information Extracting the set item from the bibliographic information to be searched, searching the e-mail information including the extracted item from the plurality of stored e-mail information, and the search result And a step of displaying in correspondence with display of desired electronic mail information.
[0017]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of a communication terminal device and a control method thereof according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Here, for the sake of clarity, the communication terminal device will be described as an authentication information setting device. In addition, this electronic device may be anything as long as it has contents described below. For example, it may be an electronic notebook, personal digital assistant, PHS or mobile phone, personal computer or word processor, bank terminal such as ATM or CD, terminal equipment such as POS or ECR, game machine, etc. Any device that requires authentication is applicable.
[0018]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a communication terminal apparatus according to the present invention.
[0019]
The communication terminal device 1 includes a mail receiving unit 2 that receives a mail, a mail storage unit 3 that stores the received mail, and a mail content display unit that displays the mail contents stored in the mail storage unit 3 one by one. 4, a mail search item setting unit 5 for setting a search item for searching for a specific mail from mails stored in the mail storage unit 3, and a search item set in the mail search item setting unit 5. The content display mail search item extraction unit 6 that extracts a search item from the mail displayed on the mail content display unit 4 and the search item extraction unit that extracts the search item from the mail stored in the mail storage unit 3 7, an extraction search item storage unit 8 for storing the search item extracted by the search item extraction unit 7, and a determination criterion as to whether or not the search item matches the search item set by the mail search item setting unit 5 Search item match determination criterion setting unit 9 for setting the search item, and the same search as the search item extracted by the content display mail search item extraction unit 6 using the criteria set in the search item match determination criterion setting unit 9 The same search item search unit 10 for searching whether or not the item is stored in the extracted search item storage unit 8 other than the search item of the displayed mail is the same as a result of searching in the same search item search unit 10 A related mail reception detection unit 11 that detects that a mail having a search item is other than the displayed mail, that is, there is a mail related to the currently displayed mail, and a related mail reception detection unit 11 As a result of detecting the reception of the mail, the related mail reception notifying unit 12 for notifying the reception of the related mail and the mail transmitting unit, the operation unit, the CPU, the ROM, the RAM, etc. (not shown) It is al configuration.
[0020]
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of storing mail received by the mail receiving unit 2 and stored in the mail storage unit 3. The received mail is composed of items such as a reception date (transmission date) 201, a destination (To or Cc) 202, a sender 203, a subject 204, and actual mail content 205, and the like. Are separated by separators.
[0021]
The mail search item setting unit 5 sets which of these items is to be searched as a search item. Here, “sender and subject” is set as a search item as a default, and this default value can be changed by the user.
[0022]
The search item extraction unit 7 extracts items (for example, a sender 203 and a subject name 204) set as search items from the mail stored in the mail storage unit 3.
[0023]
The extracted search item storage unit 8 stores the items extracted by the search item extraction unit 7. However, when there is a change in the setting contents of the mail search item setting unit 5, the contents of the extracted search item storage unit 8 are erased at the time of the change, and all mails stored in the mail storage unit 3 are deleted. The search item extraction unit 7 extracts a new search item from the list and stores the extracted search item. When there is no change in the setting contents of the mail search item setting unit 5, when the mail is received, the search item extraction unit 7 extracts the search item from the received mail and adds the extracted search item in an additional form. Store.
[0024]
The content display email search item extraction unit 6 extracts a search item in the displayed email when one email is displayed on the email content display unit 4 from the emails stored in the email storage unit 3. .
[0025]
The search item match determination criterion setting unit 9 uses the search items set by the mail search item setting unit 5 to set as complete determination, including (partial match), forward match, backward match, etc. Is done.
[0026]
FIG. 5 is a setting example of the determination criteria of the search item match determination criterion setting unit 9.
[0027]
In FIG. 5, the determination criteria are based on the number of set search items (number of items 501), the set search items (item name 502), and the matching levels (item matching levels 503) in each search item. It is configured and each is separated by a separator. In the case where there are a plurality of search items (item name 502) and matching degrees (item matching degrees 503) in the search items, each is separated by a comma (,). In this coincidence portion, “P”, “I”, or a numerical value from “1” to “9” is stored, “P” indicates complete match, and “I” indicates partial match (included). The numerical values from “1” to “9” represent the number of consecutive characters from the time when the characters match. That is, in the case of “3”, it is considered that the characters match when the three characters match continuously.
[0028]
In the case of FIG. 5A, “sender” and “subject” are set as search items (item name 502), and “sender” is set as the matching degree (item matching level 503) in the search item. Indicates that regarding the complete match, “subject”, if eight consecutive characters match, it is considered that the search items match. In the case of (b), one of “subject name” is set as the search item (item name 502), and the search item is matched when five consecutive characters match as the matching degree (item matching degree 503) in the search item. Indicates that is considered a match.
[0029]
The same search item search unit 10 uses the determination criteria set by the search item match determination criterion setting unit 9 and has the same search item as the search item extracted by the content display mail search item extraction unit 6 It is searched whether there exists in the extraction search item storage unit 8 other than the mail displayed.
[0030]
The related mail reception detection unit 11 displays the displayed mail when the same search item search unit 10 performs a search and finds that a mail having the same search item exists other than the displayed mail. Detects that an email related to is received.
[0031]
The related mail reception notification unit 12 notifies that a related mail is received.
[0032]
The function of each part will be described in detail with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS.
[0033]
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation when there is no change in the setting contents of the mail search item setting unit 5.
[0034]
First, a mail is received by the mail receiving unit 2 (step S1). The received mail is stored in the mail storage unit 3 (step S2). The search item of the received mail is extracted (step S3). The extracted mail search items are stored in the extracted search item storage unit 8 (step S4). A list of mails stored in the mail storage unit 3 is displayed (step S5). The contents of the mail selected here are displayed (step S6). The search item of the displayed mail is extracted (step S7). A search is made as to whether or not a search item that matches the extracted search item exists in the extracted search item storage unit 8 (step S8).
[0035]
In this search, the search items extracted in step S7 are searched in order from the top of the extracted search item storage unit 8 based on the search criteria set in the search item match determination criterion setting unit 9. For example, when the content of FIG. 5A is set as the search item match determination criterion, it is the same as the sender of the mail displaying the sender, and the subject of the mail displaying the subject and 8 characters. The same thing is searched continuously. This search criterion can be freely changed, and the processing when it is changed will be described later with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
[0036]
Next, as a result of the search in step S8, the number of mails that match the search item extracted in step S7 is counted (step S9). It is determined whether or not the counted number is 1 (step S10). This is because the search item of the displayed mail is also stored in the extracted search item storage unit 8, and there is always one mail having the same search item as the search item of the displayed mail. It can be determined whether there is a related mail by determining whether or not is 1.
[0037]
As a result of the determination, when the number of matching cases is 1 (when there is no related mail), the process ends here. If the number of matches is other than 1 (when there is a related mail), the process proceeds to the next step S11.
[0038]
As a result of the determination in step S9, if the number of matches is other than 1, that is, if there is a related mail, a message indicating that a mail with the same title exists in the screen displaying the mail is counted in step S9. It is displayed together with a numerical value that is 1 less than the number of cases (step S11). Here, the reason why the numerical value that is 1 less than the number counted in step S9 is used is to remove the displayed mail as described above. When the message is displayed in this way, this process is terminated.
[0039]
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation when the setting content of the mail search item setting unit 5 is changed. Note that the processing numbers shown in the figure are the same as those in FIG. 3, but the numbering used in FIG. 3 is used as it is.
[0040]
First, the setting of the mail search item setting unit 5 is changed (step S20). Next, the contents of the extracted search item storage unit 8 are deleted (step S21). Search items are extracted by the search item extraction unit 7 from all mails stored in the mail storage unit 3 (step S22). The extracted search item is stored in the extracted search item storage unit 8 (step S23). Thereafter, the processing after step 1 in the flowchart showing the operation when the setting contents of the mail search item setting unit 5 in FIG. 3 are not changed is performed. That is, mail is received, search items related to the received mail are extracted, and the extracted search items are stored in the extracted search item storage unit 8. Since the processing is the same as that in FIG. 3, the following description is omitted.
[0041]
In the above example, when there is a related mail, a message indicating that there is a mail having the same search item is displayed. However, this is not limited to the display, and a sound such as a buzzer is notified. Needless to say, it may be notified by vibration or the like.
[0042]
FIG. 6 is a view showing a display example during the mail display in the communication terminal apparatus when the above-described control of the present invention is used.
[0043]
6A shows a list display of received mails. For example, a status 601 of each mail, a reception date and time 602, a sender 603, and a subject 604 are displayed. Here, the mail status 601 indicates whether this mail is unread or read. Here, the fourth and subsequent mails are all unread.
[0044]
Further, it is assumed that the search item and the search item match criterion are set with the contents shown in FIG. In other words, “sender” and “subject” are set as search items (item name 502), and “sender” is completely matched as the matching degree (item matching degree 503) in the search item. With regard to “subject”, if eight consecutive characters match, it is assumed that there is a mail related to the displayed mail.
[0045]
FIG. 6B is an example in which the fourth mail content is displayed in the list display of FIG. In the screen display example of (b), the sender 603, the subject 604, and the reception date and time 602, which are the items of the list display list of (a), are displayed in the area b1. The detailed contents are displayed in the area b2. By the way, in the mail of the list display list of (a), “sent” is completely matched for “Taro”, and “subject” is “continuous guidance” for 8 consecutive characters. In addition to the fourth mail (the mail displayed in (b)), the sixth and eighth mails are also present. Therefore, as a method for relieving this, a window b2-1 is provided in the area b2 for notifying that another related mail exists during the mail content confirmation.
[0046]
At this time, in order to indicate that the condition is matched, for example, the display form of the search item such as From may be changed (color is changed, thickness is changed).
[0047]
Further, in order to respond to the user's request, two buttons such as “view now” b2-2a and “view later” b2-2b are displayed in this window b2-1. Here, when the “view now” button (b2-2a) is operated, the contents of related mails (in this case, the sixth and eighth mails) are displayed. In addition, when “view later” of the button (b2-2b) is operated, the window (b2-1) is closed and the user is allowed to perform the operation. In other words, not only is the user notified, but also subsequent processing can be executed (user-friendly configuration).
[0048]
In addition, the content in embodiment mentioned so far is not limited to the said description, unless the main point of this invention is changed.
[0049]
【The invention's effect】
In the communication terminal device and the control method thereof according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.
[0050]
As described above, the search item setting means for setting the search item to be searched from the stored mail, the search item extraction means for extracting the search item set from the stored mail, and the displayed mail The content display mail search item extraction means for extracting the search item corresponding to, and the search means for searching the search item of the extracted displayed mail from the extracted search item storage unit. Thus, it is possible to easily know whether there is still a mail related to the mail, and it is possible to provide a communication terminal device that can easily respond to the mail.
[0051]
In addition, since it has a search item match determination criterion setting means for setting a criterion for determining whether or not it is related when searching from the extracted search item storage unit, the search item match determination criterion setting means is further provided. It is possible to determine whether or not they are related to each other, and it is possible to provide a communication terminal device that is easier for the user to use.
[0052]
In addition, since it has a means for notifying after detecting the presence or absence of the related mail, when there is a related mail, it is possible for the user to know the existence more easily and more accurate processing. It is possible to provide a communication terminal device capable of
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a communication terminal apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a storage example of mail received and stored in the communication terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation when the setting of the mail search item is not changed in the communication terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation when the setting of the mail search item is changed in the communication terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a setting example set by a search item match determination criterion setting unit in the communication terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a display example when mail is displayed in the communication terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Communication terminal device 2 Mail receiving part 3 Mail storage part 4 Mail content display part 5 Mail search item setting part 6 Content display mail search item extraction part 7 Search item extraction part 8 Extraction search item storage part 9 Search item coincidence determination criteria setting part 10 Same Search Item Search Unit 11 Related Mail Reception Detection Unit 12 Related Mail Reception Notification Unit

Claims (5)

In a communication terminal device that transmits and receives e-mail information consisting of bibliographic information and text information,
Search item setting means for presetting the subject or sender item in the bibliographic information of the e-mail information as a search target;
Mail storage means for storing a plurality of e-mail information;
Extraction search item storage means for extracting information corresponding to the item set by the search item setting means from bibliographic information included in the e-mail information stored in the mail storage means, and storing the extracted information as a plurality of extraction information; ,
Display means for displaying desired e-mail information from a plurality of e-mail information stored in the e-mail storage means;
From the view and electrons from bibliography information included in the mail information search target information corresponding to the items set by the search item setting means is extracted information stored in the extracted search item storage means, said item Search means for searching for e-mail information including information corresponding to
An instruction message as to whether or not to display the retrieved mail together with a message indicating that the retrieved mail exists when the retrieval means retrieves e-mail information different from the displayed e-mail information. A communication terminal apparatus comprising control means for displaying the information on the display means. It further comprises criteria setting means for setting search criteria,
2. The search unit according to claim 1, wherein the search unit searches for desired e-mail information from a plurality of e-mail information stored in the mail storage unit in accordance with the reference set by the reference setting unit. Communication terminal device.   The control means, when displaying desired e-mail information on the display means, displays the bibliographic information portion as a search target of the displayed e-mail information by changing the display form. Item 2. The communication terminal device according to Item 1. The search means further comprises a function of counting the number of emails with the same extraction information, including the displayed email,
The control means, when the electronic mail information including the item extracted by the search means is searched, displays the number obtained by subtracting 1 from the number counted by the search means on the display means. Item 2. The communication terminal device according to Item 1. In a control method of a communication terminal device that transmits and receives e-mail information composed of bibliographic information and text information,
Presetting the subject or sender item in the bibliographic information of the email information as a search target;
Storing multiple email information; and
A step of extracting the information corresponding to the item being the set from the bibliographic information contained in the e-mail information is the storage, stores the plurality of extraction information,
Displaying desired e-mail information from the stored plurality of e-mail information;
Information corresponding to the set item is searched from bibliographic information included in the displayed e-mail information, and e-mail information including information corresponding to the item is searched from the stored extracted information . Steps,
When searching for e-mail information different from the displayed e-mail information, a step of displaying an instruction message as to whether or not to display the searched mail together with a message indicating that the searched mail exists. And a communication terminal device control method.

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