Communication device, control method, and control program

• US 10,447,640 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2016
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Nomachi, Nayu, Tsuruta, Hiroshi, Murakami, Hideko, Ibuki, Daisuke, Yamada, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thanh T
• Application Number:
  US15/172,157
• Publication Number:
  US 20160359788A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,229 Days
• Field of Search: 709206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes

Abstract

In one aspect, a communication device that sends mail including a destination address entry field, a subject entry field, and a message body entry field includes a controller that moves a character group entered in the destination address entry field or a character group entered in the subject entry field to the message body entry field if the character group satisfies a predetermined condition. If the predetermined condition is satisfied, the communication device determines that the character group presumed to be the message body of the mail has been entered in the entry field for the destination address or the subject of the mail, and moves the entered character group to the message body entry field.

Claims

1. A communication device, configured to send mail including a destination address entry field, a subject entry field, and a message body entry field, the communication device comprising:

a controller configured to, in response to a determination that a character group, which has been entered in the subject entry field, satisfies a predetermined condition,

determine that the character group entered in the subject entry field is presumed to be a message body of a mail, and

move the character group entered in the subject entry field to the message body entry field, wherein

the character group includes at least one character entered by a user, and

the character group is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition in response to at least one of

the at least one character includes a predetermined number or more of characters,

the at least one character includes a punctuation mark, and

the at least one character corresponds to a line break.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the controller is further configured to move the character group to the message body entry field in response to a send operation performed while the message body entry field is blank.

3. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

before moving the character group to the message body entry field, the controller is further configured to give the user a notification to ask the user to confirm whether to move the character group to the message body entry field.

6. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the controller is further configured to, in response to a determination that a further character group, which has been entered in the destination address entry field satisfies the predetermined condition,

determine that the further character group entered in the destination address entry field is presumed to be the message body of the mail, and

move the further character group from the destination address entry field to the message body entry field.

4. A control method executed by a communication device configured to send mail including a destination address entry field, a subject entry field, and a message body entry field, the control method comprising:

in response to a determination that a character group, which has been entered in the subject entry field, satisfies a predetermined condition,

determining that the character group entered in the subject entry field is presumed to be a message body of a mail, and

moving the character group entered in the subject entry field to the message body entry field, wherein

the character group includes at least one character entered by a user, and

the character group is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition in response to at least one of

the at least one character includes a predetermined number or more of characters,

the at least one character includes a punctuation mark, and

the at least one character corresponds to a line break.

5. A non-transitory storage medium that stores a control program for causing, when executed by a communication device configured to send mail including a destination address entry field, a subject entry field, and a message body entry field, the communication device to execute:

in response to a determination that a character group, which has been entered in the subject entry field, satisfies a predetermined condition,

determining that the character group entered in the subject entry field is presumed to be a message body of a mail, and

moving the character group entered in the subject entry field to the message body entry field, wherein

the character group includes at least one character entered by a user, and

the character group is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition in response to at least one of

the at least one character includes a predetermined number or more of characters,

the at least one character includes a punctuation mark, and

the at least one character corresponds to a line break.