Terminal device

• US 8,452,262 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2004
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Magloire, Vladimir
• Application Number:
  US10/562,912
• Publication Number:
  US 20070073812A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,254 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412, 455/466, 455/503, 455/412.1, 455/420, 455/412.2
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages

Abstract

The present invention is a terminal device for transmitting and receiving mails, comprising: a mail receiving unit; a judging unit operable to judge whether a command declaration is included in a received mail; a command interpreting unit operable to extract and interpret a specific command following the command-declaration if the judgment of the judging unit is affirmative; a creating unit operable to create, if the specific command is interpreted as target list creation, a list of corresponding targets in memory of the terminal device; and a mail transmitting unit operable to create and transmit a mail having the created list as a mail main body and addressed to a requester.

Claims

1. A terminal device for transmitting and receiving mails, comprising:

a mail receiving unit;

a judging unit to judge whether a command declaration is included in a mail transmitted by a requesting device to the terminal device;

a command interpreting unit to extract and interpret a specific command following the command declaration if the judgment of the judging unit is affirmative;

a creating unit to, if the specific command is interpreted as an instruction to create a list of information pieces pertaining to one or more targets, respectively, create the list of the information pieces from the targets stored in memory of the terminal device, the one or more targets each being specified by the specific command and being a mail intended to be received not by the requesting device but the terminal device;

a mail transmitting unit to create and transmit a mail having the created list as a mail main body to the requesting device; and

a processing unit to process the mail received by the terminal device as a regular mail if the judgment of the judging unit is negative.

2. The terminal device of claim 1, further comprising:

a comparing unit to detect, if a password accompanies the command declaration and the judgment of the judging unit is affirmative, the password, and compare the password with a password owned by the terminal device; and

an authorizing unit to authorize the extraction and interpretation of the specific command if the passwords match each other.

3. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

the command declaration is a unique character string different from a mail text, and

the specific command is a line of code including a storage location of the targets, a type of the targets, and a process to be performed.

4. The terminal device of claim 3, wherein

the targets further include transmitted mails, schedules of events, images, an address book, received voice calls, or transmitted voice calls.

5. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

if a specific command transmitted by the requesting device after the requesting device checks the list of the mail is a request to transmit a specific item in the list, the specific item is read from the memory, and a mail having the read specific item as a mail main body is created and transmitted to the requesting device by the mail transmitting unit.

6. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

if a specific command transmitted by the requesting device after the requesting device checks the list of the mail is a request to delete a specific item in the list, the specific item is deleted from the memory by the processing unit.

7. The terminal device of claim 6, wherein

a mail having a main body which indicates completion of the deletion is created and transmitted to the requesting device by the mail transmitting unit.

8. The terminal device of claim 1, further comprising a display and wherein if the targets further include schedules of events, an icon indicating a type of an event are displayed in the list, with respect to each of the schedules of events.

9. The terminal device of claim 1, further comprising a display and wherein if the targets further include images, an address in which an image is stored are displayed in the list, with respect to each of the images.

10. The terminal device of claim 1, being a mobile phone.

11. The terminal device of claim 2, wherein

the command declaration is a unique character string different from a mail text, and

the specific command is a line of code including a storage location of the targets, a type of the targets, and a process to be performed.

12. The terminal device of claim 11, wherein:

the targets further include transmitted mails, schedules of events, images, an address book, received voice calls, or transmitted voice calls.

13. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

the list of the one or more targets is created by selecting a predetermined number of the targets, in order of most recently received.

14. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

if the targets are the received mails, unread mails are included in the list and read mails are not included in the list.

15. The terminal device of claim 10, further comprising:

a display unit to display data stored in the memory.

16. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

the number of the one or more targets in the list is a predetermined number that has been specified.

17. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein

if the targets are received mails, at least a sender, a received date, and a subject are displayed in the list, with respect to each of the received mails.