CELLULAR TERMINAL DEVICE, E-MAIL DELETION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20110055294A1
• Filed: 08/05/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Noma, Makiko, Yamashita, Hiroshi, Kondo, Manabu, Yamagishi, Mikimasa
• Application Number:
  US12/851,134
• Publication Number:
  US 20110055294A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/813
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing

Abstract

A cellular terminal device including a memory for storing a received e-mail, a deletion order determiner for determining a deletion order of a plurality of e-mails stored on the memory based on an operation of a user or history information related to a mail sender and a deletion processor for deleting an e-mail stored on the memory in accordance with the deletion order determined by the deletion order determiner.

Claims

1. A cellular terminal device, comprising:

a memory for storing a received e-mail;

a deletion order determiner for determining a deletion order of a plurality of e-mails stored on the memory based on an operation of a user or history information related to a mail sender; and

a deletion processor for deleting an e-mail stored on the memory in accordance with the deletion order determined by the deletion order determiner.

2. The cellular terminal device according to claim 1, comprising:

an operation trend information gatherer for gathering operation trend information related to an operation trend of the user using each e-mail stored on the memory, and

wherein the deletion order determiner determines the deletion order of the plurality of e-mails stored on the memory in accordance with the operation trend information gathered by the operation trend information gatherer.

3. The cellular terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the operation trend information gatherer gathers, as the operation trend information, information related to a deletion operation the user has performed on the e-mails stored on the memory.

4. The cellular terminal device according to claim 1, comprising:

a related information gatherer, wherein the related information gatherer gathers, for each of the senders having sent the e-mails stored on the memory, related information indicating importance of each e-mail and/or a frequency of contacts between the user and the sender, and

wherein the deletion order determiner determines the deletion order of the plurality of e-mails stored on the memory in accordance with the related information gathered by the related information gatherer.

5. The cellular terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the deletion processor deletes only an e-mail having a size equal to or larger than a size of a newly received e-mail when e-mails as deletion targets include the e-mail having the size equal to or larger than the size of the newly received e-mail.

6. The cellular terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the deletion processor evacuates, to a specific storage area, a mail address, a telephone number, and a uniform resource locator (URL) included in an e-mail to be deleted.

7. An e-mail deletion method of a cellular terminal device, comprising:

determining a deletion order of a plurality e-mails stored on a memory having stored received e-mails based on an operation of a user or history information related to a mail sender; and

deleting an e-mail stored on the memory in accordance with the determined deletion order.

8. A computer-readable recording medium having stored an e-mail deletion program, the e-mail deletion program comprising:

determining a deletion order of a plurality e-mails stored on a memory having stored received e-mails based on an operation of a user or history information related to a mail sender; and

deleting an e-mail stored on the memory in accordance with the determined deletion order.

9. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 8, wherein the deletion order is set without requiring manual setting of the deletion order by the user.

10. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 8, wherein the deletion order is adjusted based on information obtained from a currently received email.