Terminal device

• US 20070073812A1
• Filed: 06/30/2004
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Kenji
• Granted Patent: US 8,452,262 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages

Abstract

The present invention is a terminal device for transmitting and receiving mails, comprising: a mail receiving unit; a judging unit operable to judge whether a command declaration is included in a received mail; a command interpreting unit operable to extract and interpret a specific command following the command-declaration if the judgment of the judging unit is affirmative; a creating unit operable to create, if the specific command is interpreted as target list creation, a list of corresponding targets in memory of the terminal device; and a mail transmitting unit operable to create and transmit a mail having the created list as a mail main body and addressed to a requester.

Claims

1. A terminal device for transmitting and receiving mails, comprising:

a mail receiving unit;

a judging unit operable to judge whether a command declaration is included in a received mail;

a command interpreting unit operable to extract and interpret a specific command following the command declaration if the judgment of the judging unit is affirmative;

a creating unit operable to create, if the specific command is interpreted as target list creation, a list of corresponding targets in memory of the terminal device; and

a mail transmitting unit operable to create and transmit a mail having the created list as a mail main body and addressed to a requester.

2. The terminal device of claim 1, further comprising:

a comparing unit operable to detect, if a password accompanies the command declaration and the judgment of the judging unit is affirmative, the password, and compare the password with a password owned by the terminal device; and

an authorizing unit operable to authorize the extraction and interpretation of the specific command if the passwords match each other.

3. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

the command declaration is a unique character string different from a mail text, and

the specific command is a line of code including a storage location of the targets, a type of the targets, and a process to be performed.

4. The terminal device of claim 3, wherein

the targets are received mails, transmitted mails, schedules of events, images, telephone numbers, received voice calls, or transmitted voice calls.

5. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

if a specific command transmitted by the requestor after the requestor checks the list of the mail is a request of transmitting a specific item in the list, the specific item is read from the memory, and a mail having the read specific item as a mail main body and addressed to the requestor is created and transmitted.

6. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

if a specific command transmitted by the requestor after the requestor checks the list of the mail is a request of deleting a specific item in the list, the specific item is deleted from the memory.

7. The terminal device of claim 6, wherein

a mail having a main body which indicates completion of the deletion and addressed to the requestor is created and transmitted.

8. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

if the targets are received mails, at least a sender, a received date, and a subject are displayed in the list, with respect to each of the received mails.

9. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

if the targets are schedules of events, a date, a time, and an icon indicating a type of an event are displayed in the list, with respect to each of the schedules of events.

10. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

if the targets are images, a shooting date, a title, an address in which an image is stored are displayed in the list, with respect to each of the images.

11. The terminal device of claim 1, being a mobile phone.

12. The terminal device of claim 2, wherein

the command declaration is a unique character string different from a mail text, and

the specific command is a line of code including a storage location of the targets, a type of the targets, and a process to be performed.

13. The terminal device of claim 12, wherein

the targets are received mails, transmitted mails, schedules of events, images, telephone numbers, received voice calls, or transmitted voice calls.