COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM WITH COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON

• US 20160065506A1
• Filed: 08/21/2015
• Published: 03/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakaguchi, Shoichi, Tanaka, Yoshihisa, Hirobe, Yumi
• Granted Patent: US 10,015,127 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/226 Delivery according to priorities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases

Abstract

A communication device includes an acceptance section, a mail data generating section, and a transmission section. The acceptance section is configured to accept a plurality of destination addresses and a mail text to be sent to the plurality of destination addresses. The mail data generating section is configured to generate, for every one of the plurality of destination addresses, mail data that contains the mail text, destination information indicating the one of the plurality of destination addresses as a destination, and destination address list information which indicates a list of the plurality of destination addresses arranged in order and in which the one destination address is placed higher in order than when accepted by the acceptance section. The transmission section is configured to send the mail data generated by the mail data generating section.

Claims

1. A communication device comprising:

an acceptance section configured to accept a plurality of destination addresses and a mail text to be sent to the plurality of destination addresses;

a mail data generating section configured to generate, for every one of the plurality of destination addresses, mail data that contains the mail text, destination information indicating the one of the plurality of destination addresses as a destination, and destination address list information which indicates a list of the plurality of destination addresses arranged in order and in which the one destination address is placed higher in order than when accepted by the acceptance section; and

a transmission section configured to send the mail data generated by the mail data generating section.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the mail data generating section is further configured to generate, for every one of the plurality of destination addresses, the mail data that contains the destination information indicating the one of the plurality of destination addresses as a destination and the destination address list information indicating the list of the plurality of destination addresses with the one destination address placed at a top of the list.

3. The communication device according to claim 2, wherein

the acceptance section is further configured to accept a specification of types of destination address to which the plurality of mail addresses belong, the types of destination address including a type of TO address and a type of CC address,

the destination address list information contains:

TO address list information indicating a list of destination addresses belonging to the type of TO address and arranged in order; and

CC address list information indicating a list of destination addresses belonging to the type of CC address and arranged in order, and

the mail data generating section is further configured to;

generate, for one of the destination addresses belonging to the type of TO address, mail data that contains destination information indicating the one of the destination addresses as a destination and the TO address list information in which the one destination address is placed at a top of the list; and

generate, for one of the destination addresses belonging to the type of CC address, mail data that contains destination information indicating the one of the destination addresses as a destination and the CC address list information in which the one destination address is placed at a top of the list.

4. The communication device according to claim 2, wherein

the acceptance section is further configured not to accept any specification of types of destination address to which the plurality of mail addresses belong, the types of destination address including a type of TO address and a type of CC address,

the destination address list information contains:

TO address list information indicating a list of destination addresses belonging to the type of TO address and arranged in order; and

CC address list information indicating a list of destination addresses belonging to the type of CC address and arranged in order, and

the mail data generating section is further configured to generate the destination address list information with the one destination address placed at the top of the list by containing only the one destination address as the destination in the TO address list information and containing the destination addresses other than the one destination address in the CC address list information.

5. The communication device according to claim 2, wherein

the acceptance section is further configured to accept a specification of types of destination address to which the plurality of mail addresses belong, the types of destination address including a type of TO address and a type of CC address,

the destination address list information contains:

TO address list information indicating a list of destination addresses belonging to the type of TO address and arranged in order; and

CC address list information indicating a list of destination addresses belonging to the type of CC address and arranged in order, and

the mail data generating section is further configured to generate, regardless of whether the acceptance section has accepted the specification of types of destination address, the destination address list information with the one destination address placed at the top of the list by containing only the one destination address as the destination in the TO address list information and containing the destination addresses other than the one destination address in the CC address list information.

6. The communication device according to claim 1,

further comprising a storage section configured to store the plurality of destination addresses and priority rankings of the plurality of destination addresses,

wherein the mail data generating section is further configured to change an order of the plurality of destination addresses contained in the destination address list information based on the priority rankings and generate, if the plurality of destination addresses include destination addresses having the same priority ranking, the destination address list information in which one of the destination addresses having the same priority ranking is placed higher in order than the other destination addresses having the same priority ranking.

7. The communication device according to claim 6, wherein

the storage section is further configured to store respective accompanying information items attached to the plurality of destination addresses, and

the communication device further comprises a priority ranking determining section configured to determine the priority rankings of the plurality of destination addresses based on the accompanying information items.

8. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the mail data generating section is further configured to generate the mail data by containing the destination information in envelope information, containing the destination address list information in header information, and attaching the envelope information and the header information to the mail text.

9. The communication device according to claim 1,

further comprising a display and a display control section configured to control a display operation of the display,

wherein in allowing the display to display mail data once sent by the transmission section, the display control section allows the display to display, if an order of the plurality of destination addresses contained in the destination address list information of the mail data is changed from an order of the plurality of destination addresses when accepted by the acceptance section, information indicating that the order of the plurality of destination addresses contained in the destination address list information is changed, together with the mail data.

10. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage section; and

a control section configured to, when the transmission section sends mail data in which an order of the plurality of destination addresses contained in the destination address list information is changed from an order of the plurality of destination addresses when accepted by the acceptance section, allow the storage section to store information indicating that the order of the plurality of destination addresses contained in the destination address list information is changed, together with the sent mail data.

11. A computer-readable non-transitory recording medium with a communication control program recorded thereon, the communication control program allowing a computer to function as:

an acceptance section configured to accept a plurality of destination addresses and a mail text to be sent to the plurality of destination addresses;

a mail data generating section configured to generate, for every one of the plurality of destination addresses, mail data that contains the mail text, destination information indicating the one of the plurality of destination addresses as a destination, and destination address list information which indicates a list of the plurality of destination addresses arranged in order and in which the one destination address is placed higher in order than when accepted by the acceptance section; and

a transmission section configured to send the mail data generated by the mail data generating section.