E-mail handling method for portable telephone and portable telephone using said handling method

• US 7,177,665 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2001
• Issued: 02/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishigaki, Junji
• Primary Examiner(s): Anderson; Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pan; Yuwen
• Application Number:
  US09/794,419
• Publication Number:
  US 20010046886A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,177 Days
• Field of Search: 455/566, 455/550.1, 455/556.2, 455/158.4, 455/158.5, 345/169, 345/333, 709/204, 709/205, 709/206
• US Class Current: 455/556.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

A “mail” icon is selected (step 51). The e-mal processing is activated and the e-mail screen is displayed (step 52). Next, Whether e-mail processing is selected or not is determined (step 53). If selected, the “e-mail list” is displayed (step 54). An e-mail is selected and the corresponding body of the e-mail is displayed on the first screen (step 55).

Claims

1. An e-mail handling method in a portable telephone set where selected operation on the screen related to icons is executed, comprising the steps of:

displaying an e-mail list of received e-mails in case a selected icon is an e-mail icon in a portable telephone set;

selecting a specific e-mail in the e-mail list to be displayed; and

displaying only a content of an e-mail on a first screen, wherein the content of the e-mail does not include a header section of the e-mail.

2. An e-mail handling method in a portable telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the header section other than said content of the e-mail can be displayed by operating up or down scroll keys in case only said body of the e-mail is displayed.

3. An e-mail handling method in a portable telephone set according to claim 2, wherein a boundary line is inserted at the boundary of said content of the e-mail and said header section in order to specify the boundary of said content of the e-mail and said header section.

4. An e-mail handling method in a portable telephone set according to claim 1, wherein a combination of an e-mail address or a telephone number, and a title or part of a title is displayed.

5. An e-mail handling method in a portable telephone set according to claim 4, wherein only a name is displayed in case said telephone number matches a telephone number registered in a telephone directory and said name is registered in said telephone directory.

6. A portable telephone set that uses an e-mail handling method in a portable telephone set according to claim 1 to read e-mails.