Mobile communication terminal, detection condition distribution server and detected mail notification receiving server

• US 20040102185A1
• Filed: 08/26/2003
• Published: 05/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Kojima, Hisakazu, Fujita, Masanori, Ishii, Kenji, Urakawa, Yasutaka, Takami, Tadao
• Granted Patent: US 7,596,601 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1496 involving discounts
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

The detection conditions acquisition unit included in the mobile communication terminal acquires detection condition data including a letter string from the detection conditions distribution server and stores the data in the detection conditions storage unit The detection unit extracts, from among the mails received by the mail receiving unit, mails including a letter string included in the detection condition data stored in the detection conditions storage unit. Thus, the mobile communication terminal may acquire a letter string specified by the detection conditions distribution server to detect specific mail. Therefore, a letter string for detecting a particular mail is specified easily.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

mail receiving means for receiving mail from a mail server;

detection conditions acquisition means for acquiring detection conditions data including a letter string from a detection conditions distribution server and storing the detection condition data in a detection conditions storage means; and

detection means for performing detection processing for extracting the mail received by the mail receiving means when a condition, in which the mail includes a letter string conforming to the letter string included in the detection condition data stored in the detection conditions storage means, is satisfied.

2. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the detection condition data includes a plurality of the letter strings, and

when a condition in which the mail received by the mail receiving means includes the plurality of letter strings conforming to each of the plurality of letter strings included in the detection condition data is satisfied, the detection means extracts the mail in the detection processing.

3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising list display means for displyaing a list of information for identifying a plurality of mail received by the mail receiving means, respctively,

in the list displaying, the list display means displays information for identifying the mail extracted by the detection means in a mode different that of mail not extracted by the detection means.

4. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the detection conditions acquisition means sends category information inputted by a user to the detection conditions distribution server, thereby acquiring the detection condition data including the letter string relevant to the category indicated by the category information sent by the detection conditions distribution server.

5. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising detection conditions selection control means for storing selection information, which regards whether the letter string included in the detection condition data acquired by the detection conditions acquisition means is applied to the detection processing or not, corresponding to the letter string based on selection by a user,

wherein the detection means apllies the letter string to the detection processing when the application of the letter string to the detection processing is selected, based on the selection information corresponding to the letter string included in the detection condition data.

6. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising detected mail deletion means for deleting the mail received by the mail receiving means when the mail is detected by the detection means.

7. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising detected mail selection deletion means for providing a display for prompting a user to select whether or not to delete the mail extracted by the detection means and for deleting the mail based on the selection by the user in response to the display.

8. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

detected mail deletion means for deleting the mail received by the mail receiving means when the mail is extracted by the detection means;

detected mail selection deletion means for providing a display for prompting a user to select whether or not to delete the mail extracted by the detection means and for deleting the mail based on the selection by the user in response to the display; and

first detected mail processing control means for storing information regarding distribution processing as to whether the mail extracted by the detection means is processed by the detected mail deletion means or the detected mail selection deletion means, based on an input by an administrator to the mobile communication terminal,

wherein;

the detection means distributes the processing of the mail to the detected mail deletion means or the detected mail selection deletion means when the mail is extracted by the detection processing, based on the information regarding the distribution processing stored by the first detected mail processing control means;

the detected mail deletion means deletes the mail when the mail is distributed by the detection means to the detected mail delete means; and

the detected mail selection deletion means provides a display for prompting a user to select whether or not to delete the mail and deletes the mail based on the selection by the user in response to the display when the mail is distributed by the detection means to the detected mail selection delete means.

9. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

detected mail deletion means for deleting the mail received by the mail receiving means when the mail is extracted by the detection means;

detected mail selection deletion means for providing a display for prompting a user to select whether or not to delete the mail extracted by the detection means and for deleting the mail based on the selection by the user in response to the display; and

detected mail processing information acquisition means for acquiring information regarding distribution processing as to whether the mail extracted by the detection means is processed by the detected mail deletion means or by the detected mail selection deletion means from the detection conditions distribution server,

wherein;

the detection means distributes the processing of the mail to the detected mail deletion means or the detected mail selection deletion means when the mail is extracted through the detection processing, based on the information regarding the distribution processing acquired by the detected mail processing information acquisition means;

the detected mail deletion means deletes the mail when the mail is distributed by the detection means to the detected mail deletion means; and

the detected mail selection deletion means provides a display for prompting a user to select whether or not to delete the mail and deletes the mail based on the selection by the user in response to the display when the mail is distributed by the detection means to the detected mail selection deletion means.

10. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising first detection conditions application control means for storing detection condition application information which regards whether application of the letter string included in the detection condition data acquired by the detection conditions acquisition means to the detection processing by the detection means is indispensable or the application can be selected by a user, based on the input to the mobile communication terminal by an administrator,

wherein the detection means applies the letter string to the detection processing when the letter string included in the detection condition data is indispensable for the detection processing or when the application of the letter string included in the detection condition data to the detection processing can be freely selected and the user selects to allow the letter string to be applied to the detection processing, based on the detection condition application information stored by the first detection conditions application control means.

11. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising detection condition application information acquisition means for acquiring detection condition application information which regards whether application of the letter string, included in the detection condition data acquired by the detection conditions acquisition means, to the detection processing by the detection means is indispensable or the application can be selected by a user,

wherein the detection means applies the letter string to the detection processing when the letter string is always applied to the detection processing or when the application of the letter string to the detection processing can be freely selected and the user selects to allow the letter string to be applied to the detection processing based on the detection condition application information acquired by the detection condition application information acquisition means.

12. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising detected mail notification processing means for sending information regarding the mail extracted by the detection means to the detected mail notification receiving server.

13. A detection conditions distribution server for controlling detection condition data including a letter string for extracting specific mail received by a mobile communication terminal, comprising second detected mail processing control means for storing information regarding distribution processing for specifying that each of a plurality of mobile communication terminals automatically deletes mail or that a user is allowed to select the deletion, when the mail received by each of the plurality of mobile communication terminals which acquires the detection condition data satisfy the condition in which the mail include letter strings conforming to the letter string included in the detection condition data, based on specification by an administrator of each of the plurality of mobile communication terminals such that each piece of the information is associated with the information for identifying each of the mobile communication terminals.

14. A detected mail notification receiving server, comprising:

detected mail receiving means for receiving information regarding mail including a letter string conforming to a letter string for detecting specific mail which is sent by a mobile communication terminal; and

communication charge return instruction means for sending instruction information for instructing billing control server to perform reduction processing of the communication charge for the mail to the billing control server, based on information regarding the mail received by the detected mail receiving means.