Electronic mail creating apparatus and method of the same, portable terminal, and computer program product for electronic mail creating apparatus

• US 20050223071A1
• Filed: 03/24/2005
• Published: 10/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Hosono, Shizu
• Granted Patent: US 7,490,130 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files

Abstract

An e-mail creating apparatus which creates a message of an e-mail, includes a searcher which refers to a library which stores a content and a keyword representing the content in a state where the content and the keyword are associated with each other, and searches, in the library, a specific content associated with the keyword corresponding to at least a part of a character string comprising an inputted body text of the message and an adder which adds the specific content searched by the searcher to the body text of the message.

Claims

1. An e-mail creating apparatus which creates a message of an e-mail, comprising:

search means for referring to a library which stores a content and a keyword representing the content in a state where the content and the keyword are associated with each other, and searching, in the library, a specific content associated with the keyword corresponding to at least a part of a character string comprising an inputted body text of the message; and

addition means for adding the specific content searched by said search means to the body text of the message.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said search means comprises:

first extraction means for extracting a second keyword, which is different from a first keyword as the keyword corresponding to at least a part of a character string comprising the inputted body text of the message, used as a search key out of the character string comprising the body text of the message by referring to a dictionary file; and

second extraction means for searching the library by use of the second keyword extracted by said first extraction means as a search key, thus extracting the content associated with the first keyword as the specific content to be added to the body text of the message, when the second keyword and the first keyword stored in the library are concordant with each other.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said search means searches the character string comprising the body text of the message by use of the first keyword stored in the library as a search key, and said search means extracts the specific content corresponding to the first keyword as a content to be added to the body text of the message when a specific character in concordance with the first keyword is detected in the character string.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the content searched by said search means is added, said addition means embeds the content in a vicinity of a character in concordance with the first keyword associated with the specific content, among the character string comprising the body text of the message.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said addition means adds the specific content searched by said search means in front of the character string comprising the body text of the message or after the character string comprising the body text of the message.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said addition means includes deletion means which deletes the specific content to be added based on a predetermined rule when a data size, in a case where the specific content searched by said search means is added to the character string comprising the body text of the message, is larger than a predetermined upper limit value.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein, when a data size including the body text of the message and the specific content to be added yet after deletion by said deletion means becomes smaller than the predetermined upper limit value, said addition means reads out the specific content from the library and making up an e-mail to be transmitted by adding the read-out specific content to the body text of the message.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific content comprises at least one of image data, music data and text data.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the library is provided in the apparatus itself.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said search means refers to the library as provided in an external device.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

display means for displaying, as a message constitution in a case where the specific content is added by said addition means, a display screen in which a predetermined symbol representing the specific content is disposed in the vicinity of the character corresponding to the content in the body text of the message.

12. A portable terminal including said apparatus according to claim 1.

24. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said deletion means comprises operation means which allows a user to select a desired content as the specific content to be deleted.

25. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said first extraction means comprises operation means which allows a user to select a desired word as the second keyword from the character string composing the body text of the message.

26. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said addition means adds identification information (ID) corresponding to the specific content instead of the actual specific content, when an external apparatus which is to be received the message and the own apparatus have a specification common and/or the message is transmitted through a common carrier between the external apparatus and the own apparatus.

27. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said addition means adds identification information (ID) corresponding to the specific content instead of the actual specific content, when an external apparatus which is to be received the message and the own apparatus have a specification common and/or the message is transmitted through a common carrier between the external apparatus and the own apparatus.

13. An e-mail creating apparatus which creates a message of an e-mail, comprising:

a control circuit which refers to a library in which a content and a keyword representing the content are stored in a state where the content and the keyword are associated with each other and searches, in the library, a specific content associated with the keyword corresponding to at least a part of a character string comprising an inputted body text of the message.

14. A portable terminal including said apparatus according to claim 13.

15. A method of creating a message of an e-mail, said method comprising:

referring to a library which stores a content and a keyword representing the content in a state where the content and the keyword are associated with each other, thus searching, in the library, a specific content associated with the keyword corresponding to at least a part of a character string comprising an inputted body text of the message; and

adding the specific content searched by said searching to the body text of the message.

16. The method according to claim 15, said searching further comprising:

extracting a second keyword, which is different from a first keyword as the keyword corresponding to at least a part of a character string comprising the inputted body text of the message, used as a search key out of the character string comprising the body text of the message by referring to a dictionary file; and

searching the library by use of the second keyword extracted as a search key, whereby the content associated with the first keyword as the specific content to be added to the body text of the message, when the second keyword and the first keyword stored in the library are concordant with each other.

17. The method according to claim 15, wherein, in said searching, the character string comprising the body text of the message is searched by use of the first keyword stored in the library as a search key, and, when a specific character in concordance with the first keyword is detected in the character string comprising the body text of the message, the content corresponding to the first keyword is extracted as the specific content to be added to the body text of the message.

18. The method according to claim 15, wherein, in said addition, when the content searched in said searching is added, the content is embedded in a vicinity of a character in concordance with the first keyword associated with the specific content, among the character string comprising the body text of the message.

19. The method according to claim 15, wherein, in said addition, the specific content searched by said searching is added in front of the character string comprising the body text of the message or behind the character string comprising the body text of the message.

20. The method according to claim 15, wherein the specific content is at least any one of image data, music data and text data.

21. A signal-bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus, said program controlling an operation of an e-mail creating apparatus for creating a message of an e-mail, wherein the program allows a computer to implement:

a search function which searches, by referring to a library which stores a content and a keyword representing the content in a state where the content and the keyword are associated with each other, a specific content associated with the keyword corresponding to at least a part of a character string comprising an inputted body text of the message; and

an addition function which adds the specific content searched by said search function to the body text of the message.

22. An e-mail creating apparatus which creates a message of an e-mail, comprising:

a searcher which refers to a library which stores a content and a keyword representing the content in a state where the content and the keyword are associated with each other, and searches, in the library, a specific content associated with the keyword corresponding to at least a part of a character string comprising an inputted body text of the message; and

an adder which adds the specific content searched by said searcher to the body text of the message.

23. A portable terminal including said apparatus according to claim 22.