Electronic mail device

• US 20040199500A1
• Filed: 03/18/2004
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Masuda, Takahiro, Togawa, Yoshifusa
• Granted Patent: US 7,444,322 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

To provide an electronic mail device, an information adding program for an electronic mail and an information adding method for an electronic mail that are capable of saving, when sending the electronic mail, a labor for transmitting the mail by automatically adding information related to a text that is to be transmitted. An input of an electronic mail created by a user is accepted, a keyword is acquired from the electronic mail, additional information corresponding to the keyword is searched for from an additional candidate storage unit stored with candidates for the additional information to the mail, etc. transmitted and received in the past, and the searched additional information is added to the electronic mail.

Claims

1. An electronic mail device comprising:

a mail accepting unit accepting an input of an electronic mail as a processing object;

a keyword extraction unit obtaining a keyword from the electronic mail;

a search unit searching for additional information corresponding to the keyword from an additional candidate storage unit stored with candidates for the additional information to the mail, etc.

processed in the past; and

an adding unit adding the searched additional information to the electronic mail as the processing object.

2. An electronic mail device according to claim 1, wherein the keyword extraction unit extracts, as a keyword, information about an existing area of a sender or about a pre-registered recipient.

3. An electronic mail device according to claim 1, wherein the keyword extraction unit extracts, as a keyword, a date and time recorded in relative time since a date and time of transmission, an absolute date and time obtained from the present date and time, or the present date and time.

4. An electronic mail device according to claim 1, further comprising an additional information selection unit accepting, in a case where the search unit has searched for plural pieces of additional information, a selection of the information, which is actually added, from the plural pieces of additional information.

5. An electronic mail device according to any one of claims 1 through 4, wherein when receiving the electronic mail from a source terminal and transmitting the mail to a destination terminal, the additional information is added to the electronic mail.

6. A recording medium recorded with an information adding program for an electronic mail, for making a computer execute steps of:

accepting an input of an electronic mail as a processing object;

obtaining a keyword from the electronic mail;

searching for additional information corresponding to the keyword from an additional candidate storage unit stored with candidates for the additional information to the mail, etc. processed in the past; and

adding the searched additional information to the electronic mail as the processing object.

7. A recording medium recorded with an information adding program for an electronic mail according to claim 6, wherein the step of obtaining the keyword involves extracting, as a keyword, information about an existing area of a sender or about a pre-registered recipient.

8. A recording medium recorded with an information adding program for an electronic mail according to claim 6, wherein the step of obtaining the keyword involves extracting, as a keyword, a date and time recorded in relative time since a date and time of transmission, an absolute date and time obtained from the present date and time, or the present date and time.

9. A recording medium recorded with an information adding program for an electronic mail according to claim 6, further comprising a step of accepting, in the case of having searched for plural pieces of additional information in the step of searching for the additional information, a selection of the information, which is actually added, from the plural pieces of additional information.

10. An information adding method for an electronic mail, by which an electronic mail device executes steps of:

accepting an input of an electronic mail as a processing object;

obtaining a keyword from the electronic mail;

searching for additional information corresponding to the keyword from an additional candidate storage unit stored with candidates for the additional information to the mail, etc. processed in the past; and

adding the searched additional information to the electronic mail as the processing object.

11. An information adding method for an electronic mail according to claim 10, wherein the step of obtaining the keyword involves extracting, as a keyword, information about an existing area of a sender or about a pre-registered recipient.

12. An information adding method for an electronic mail according to claim 10, wherein the step of obtaining the keyword involves extracting, as a keyword, a date and time recorded in relative time since a date and time of transmission, an absolute date and time obtained from the present date and time, or the present date and time.

13. An information adding method for an electronic mail according to claim 10, further comprising a step of accepting, in the case of having searched for plural pieces of additional information in the step of searching for the additional information, a selection of the information, which is actually added, from the plural pieces of additional information.

14. An information adding program for an electronic mail, for making a computer execute steps of:

accepting an input of an electronic mail as a processing object;

obtaining a keyword from the electronic mail;

searching for additional information corresponding to the keyword from an additional candidate storage unit stored with candidates for the additional information to the mail, etc. processed in the past; and

adding the searched additional information to the electronic mail as the processing object.