Electronic-mail transmission/reception apparatus hierarchizing and displaying electronic mails based on specified condition

• US 20020029247A1
• Filed: 02/21/2001
• Published: 03/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kawamoto, Mikio
• Application Number:
  US09/788,473
• Publication Number:
  US 20020029247A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

An electronic-mail transmission/reception apparatus transmits and receives electronic mails. In the electronic-mail transmission/reception apparatus: a condition setting unit sets in the electronic-mail transmission/reception apparatus a condition for displaying a list of at least one information item on at least one title of at least one electronic mail which has been transmitted or received; a sorting unit sorts the at least one information item into a hierarchical structure according to the condition; and a list displaying unit displays a list of the at least one information item which is sorted by the sorting unit.

Claims

1. An electronic-mail transmission/reception apparatus for transmitting and receiving electronic mails, comprising:

a condition setting unit which sets in said electronic-mail transmission/reception apparatus a condition for displaying a list of at least one information item on at least one title of at least one electronic mail which has been transmitted or received;

a sorting unit which sorts said at least one information item into a hierarchical structure according to said condition; and

a list displaying unit which displays a list of said at least one information item which is sorted by said sorting unit.

2. An electronic-mail transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said sorting unit sorts said at least one information item according to attribute information which each of said at least one electronic mail has.

3. An electronic-mail transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said at tribute information is contained in a header of said at least one electronic mail.

4. An electronic-mail transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display information removing unit which removes a portion of information displayed by said list displaying unit, according to display capacity of said list displaying unit.

5. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program which makes a computer execute processing for transmitting and receiving electronic mails, said program further makes said computer realize:

a condition setting unit which sets in said computer a condition for displaying a list of at least one information item on at least one title of at least one electronic mail which has been transmitted or received;

a sorting unit which sorts said at least one information item into a hierarchical structure according to said condition; and

a list displaying unit which displays a list of said at least one information item which is sorted by said sorting unit.