Information processing system for e-mail, information processing method and program storage medium therefor

• US 20020184209A1
• Filed: 05/31/2001
• Published: 12/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sato, Kazumasa, Sekiguchi, Tetsuya, Takagi, Shigeru
• Granted Patent: US 7,020,650 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access

Abstract

At the time of receiving an e-mail, a music melody or the like correlated with a respective e-mail sender is automatically reproduced. The system and the method of the invention comprising the steps of: downloading an e-mail addressed to a respective user from a mail server; extracting a domain name from a mail address of an e-mail sender contained in the downloaded e-mail; and reproducing a music file which is registered in advance as correlated with the domain name extracted, thereby enabling the respective user to recognize who is the sender of the e-mail while downloading it from the mail server.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

an electronic mail download means for downloading an e-mail addressed to a user from a predetermined server;

a mail character string extract means for extracting a predetermined character string contained in said e-mail downloaded by said e-mail download means; and

a control means for executing a predetermined processing correlated in advance to said predetermined character string extracted by said mail character string extract means.

2. The information processing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

said mail character string extract means extracts, as said character string, a domain name included in a mail address of a mail sender in a mail header information contained in said e-mail.

3. The information processing system as claimed in claim 2, wherein

said control means, when executing said processing correlated with said domain name extracted as said character string, determines contents of said processing on the basis of a predetermined processing correlation table in which said domain name and said processing are correlated.

4. The information processing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

said mail character string extract means extracts, as said character string, a mail account included in the mail address of the sender in the mail header information contained in said e-mail.

5. The information processing system as claimed in claim 4, wherein

said control means, when executing said processing correlated with said mail account extracted as said character string, determines contents of said processing on the basis of the predetermined processing correlation table in which said mail account and said processing are correlated with each other.

6. The information processing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

said mail character string extract means extracts, as said character string, the domain name and the mail account included in the mail address of the sender contained in the mail header information in said e-mail.

7. The information processing system as claimed in claim 6, wherein

said control means, when executing said processing correlated with said domain name and said mail account extracted as said character string, determines contents of said processing on the basis of a predetermined processing correlation table in which said domain name and said mail account are correlated with said processing.

8. The information processing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

said mail character string extract means, when the domain name and the mail account in the mail address of the mail sender contained in the mail header information of said e-mail coincide with a preset domain name and a mail account which are registered in advance, extracts the preset character string contained in a text of said e-mail.

9. The information processing system as claimed in claim 8, wherein

said control means, when executing said processing correlated with said specific character string contained in the text of said e-mail, determines contents of said processing on the basis of a predetermined processing correlation table in which said specific character string and said processing are correlated with each other.

10. The information processing system as claimed in claim 8, wherein

said mail character string extract means extracts a specific character string contained in the text of said e-mail on the basis of a predetermined character string correlation table in which said mail account and said specific character string are correlated with each other.

11. The information processing system as claimed in claim 10, wherein

said control means, when executing said processing which is correlated with said specific character string contained in the text of said e-mail, determines contents of said processing on the basis of the predetermined processing correlation table in which said specific character string and said processing are correlated with each other.

12. The information processing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

said control means enables to reproduce and output a music data as a result of said processing.

13. The information processing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

said control means enables to display a picture according to a picture data on a display as a result of said processing.

14. A method of processing information comprising the steps of:

downloading an e-mail addressed to a user from a predetermined server;

extracting a predetermined mail character string contained in said e-mail which is downloaded from said server; and

executing a predetermined processing which is correlated in advance with said predetermined mail character string having been extracted.

15. A program storage medium for storing a program to be executed by an information processing system, said program comprising the steps of:

downloading an e-mail addressed to a user from a predetermined server;

extracting a predetermined mail character string contained in said e-mail downloaded from said server; and

executing a predetermined processing which is correlated in advance with said predetermined mail character string having been extracted.