Electronic mail device

• US 7,444,322 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2004
• Issued: 10/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Masuda, Takahiro, Togawa, Yoshifusa
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam; Shahid Al
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mahmood; Rezwanul
• Application Number:
  US10/802,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20040199500A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,685 Days
• Field of Search: 707/3, 707/10, 707/104.1, 709/206, 709/207
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

To provide an electronic mail device, an information adding program for an electronic mail and an information adding method for an electronic mail that are capable of saving, when sending the electronic mail, a labor for transmitting the mail by automatically adding information related to a text that is to be transmitted. An input of an electronic mail created by a user is accepted, a keyword is acquired from the electronic mail, additional information corresponding to the keyword is searched for from an additional candidate storage unit stored with candidates for the additional information to the mail, etc. transmitted and received in the past, and the searched additional information is added to the electronic mail.

Claims

1. An electronic mail device comprising:

a mail accepting unit accepting an input of an electronic mail as a processing object;

a keyword extraction unit obtaining a keyword from the electronic mail, wherein the keyword is at least one of;

a character string delimited by the start point and the end point;

information about an existing area of a sender or about a pre-registered recipient;

a date and time recorded in relative time since a date and time of transmission, an absolute date and time obtained from the present date and time, or the present date and time;

or

a character string delimited by the start point and the end point, wherein one of;

strings of words of titles of saved mail and the input electronic mail are perfectly coincident with each other;

strings of words of titles of saved mail and the input electronic mail are coincident forwards;

or

a value given by (a number or words used in common throughout respective titles of saved mail)/(a total number of words) is obtained, and the value is equal to or greater than a predetermined value;

a search unit searching for additional information corresponding to the keyword from an additional candidate storage unit stored with candidates for the additional information to the mail previously processed;

an additional information selection unit accepting, in a case where the search unit has searched out plural pieces of additional information, a selection, from a list of the plural pieces of additional information, wherein the list has been sorted on a basis of a history of mails previously transmitted or received; and

an adding unit adding the accepted selection to the electronic mail as a processing object, in the case where the search unit has searched out plural pieces of additional information.

2. The electronic mail device according to claim 1, wherein when receiving the electronic mail from a source terminal and transmitting the mail to a destination terminal, the additional information is added to the electronic mail.

3. A computer-readable storage storing an information adding program for an electronic mail, for making a computer execute a process comprising:

accepting an input of an electronic mail as a processing object;

obtaining a keyword from the electronic mail, wherein the keyword is at least one of;

a character string delimited by the start point and the end point;

information about an existing area of a sender or about a pre-registered recipient;

a date and time recorded in relative time since a date and time of transmission, an absolute date and time obtained from the present date and time, or the present date and time;

or

a character string delimited by the start point and the end point, wherein one of;

strings of words of titles of saved mail and the input electronic mail are perfectly coincident with each other;

strings of words of titles of saved mail and the input electronic mail are coincident forwards;

or

a value given by (a number of words used in common throughout respective titles of saved mail)/(a total number of words) is obtained, and the value is equal to or greater than a predetermined value;

searching for additional information corresponding to the keyword from an additional candidate storage unit stored with candidates for the additional information to the mail previously processed;

accepting, in a case of having searched out plural pieces of additional information in the searching for the additional information, a selection, from a list of the plural pieces of additional information, wherein the list has been sorted on a basis of a history of mails previously transmitted or received; and

adding the accepted selection to the electronic mail as the processing object in the case of having searched out plural pieces of additional information.

4. An information adding method for an electronic mail device, comprising:

accepting an input of an electronic mail as a processing object;

obtaining a keyword from the electronic mail, wherein the keyword is at least one of;

a character string delimited by the start point and the end point;

information about an existing area of a sender or about a pre-registered recipient;

a date and time recorded in relative time since a date and time of transmission, an absolute date and time obtained from the present date and time, or the present date and time;

or

a character string delimited by the start point and the end point, wherein one of;

strings of words of titles of saved mail and the input electronic mail are perfectly coincident with each other;

strings of words of titles of saved mail and the input electronic mail are coincident forwards;

or

a value given by (a number of words used in common throughout respective titles of saved mail)/(a total number of words) is obtained, and the value is equal to or greater than a predetermined value;

searching for additional information corresponding to the keyword from an additional candidate storage unit stored with candidates for the additional information to the mail processed in the past;

accepting, in a case of having searched out plural pieces of additional information in the searching for the additional information, a selection, from a list of the plural pieces of the additional information, wherein the list has been sorted on a basis of a history of mails previously transmitted or received; and

adding the accepted selection to the electronic mail as the processing object in the case of having searched out plural pieces of additional information.