COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

• US 20090055494A1
• Filed: 07/29/2008
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: FUKUMOTO, Yuji
• Granted Patent: US 8,131,807 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• 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

Abstract

A communication apparatus includes: a display unit; a receiver configured to receive an email; a storage unit configured to store the email; and an unread email notifying unit configured to display on the display unit an image associated with a character string obtained by analyzing at least one of a header and a text of an unread email stored in the storage unit based on an analysis rule.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a display unit;

a receiver configured to receive an email;

a storage unit configured to store the email; and

an unread email notifying unit configured to display on the display unit an image associated with a character string obtained by analyzing at least one of a header and a text of an unread email stored in the storage unit based on an analysis rule.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the analysis rule includes a rule for determining the character string irrespective of the header or the texts.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display unit has a pict-line area, and the unread email notifying unit displays the image in the pict-line area.

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an address book configured to store an email address,

wherein the analysis rule includes rules which determine certain character strings differing from one another depending on whether sender address of the email is stored in the address book or not.

2. A communication apparatus comprising:

an input unit;

a display unit;

an email receiver configured to receive an email and an incoming signal indicating that the email is incoming;

an email storage unit configured to store a reception status of the email, a header of the email, texts of the email, and a character string of the email, the reception status showing whether any of an incoming signal of the email, a header, and texts of the email is received or not, the character string obtained by analyzing at least one of the reception status, the header, and the texts of the email based on an analysis rule;

an image storage unit configured to store images associated with character strings;

a read email identifying unit configured to identify that the email is read when the texts of the email are displayed on the display unit in accordance with an email displaying command input at the input unit;

a retrieving unit configured to retrieve an image stored in the image storage unit based on the character string when the email is not identified as read; and

an unread email notifying unit configured to display on the display unit the image retrieved by the retrieving unit.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the analysis rule includes a rule for determining the character strings irrespective of the header or the texts.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display unit has a pict-line area, and the unread email notifying unit displays the image in the pict-line area.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an address book configured to store an email address,

wherein the analysis rule includes rules which determine certain character strings differing from one another depending on whether sender address of the email is stored in the address book or not.