Cellular phone with mail function
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1. A mobile telephone having a mail transmission function, comprising:
- a storage unit storing therein an address book including one or more pieces of mail-transmission destination information each pertaining to a communication party and one or more pieces of necessity information each pertaining to a communication party, a piece of necessity information indicating whether or not a predetermined mail is to be transmitted to a corresponding communication party;
a judgment unit operable to make a judgment, when an incoming event occurs, whether the incoming event meets a specific requirement;
a selection unit operable to select one or more communication parties from the address book when the judgment is affirmative, the selected communication parties being one or more communication parties that correspond to one or more pieces of necessity information indicating that the predetermined mail is to be transmitted to a corresponding communication party; and
a transmission unit operable to transmit the predetermined mail to the selected communication parties using pieces of mail-transmission destination information corresponding to the selected communication parties.
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Abstract
The mobile telephone (i) stores therein an address book including one or more pieces of mail-transmission destination information each pertaining to a communication party, (ii) makes a judgment, when an incoming event occurs, whether the incoming event meets a specific requirement, (iii) selects one or more communication parties from the address book when the judgment is affirmative; and (iv) transmits a predetermined mail to destinations of the selected communication parties using pieces of mail-transmission destination information corresponding to the selected communication parties.
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1. A mobile telephone having a mail transmission function, comprising:
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a storage unit storing therein an address book including one or more pieces of mail-transmission destination information each pertaining to a communication party and one or more pieces of necessity information each pertaining to a communication party, a piece of necessity information indicating whether or not a predetermined mail is to be transmitted to a corresponding communication party; a judgment unit operable to make a judgment, when an incoming event occurs, whether the incoming event meets a specific requirement; a selection unit operable to select one or more communication parties from the address book when the judgment is affirmative, the selected communication parties being one or more communication parties that correspond to one or more pieces of necessity information indicating that the predetermined mail is to be transmitted to a corresponding communication party; and a transmission unit operable to transmit the predetermined mail to the selected communication parties using pieces of mail-transmission destination information corresponding to the selected communication parties. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A mail transmission method used in a mobile telephone having a mail transmission function, the mail transmission method comprising the steps of:
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storing, in a memory, an address book including one or more pieces of mail-transmission destination information each pertaining to a communication party and one or more pieces of necessity information each pertaining to a communication party, a piece of necessity information indicating whether or not a predetermined mail is to be transmitted to a corresponding communication party; making a judgment, when an incoming event occurs, whether the incoming event meets a specific requirement; selecting one or more communication parties from the address book when the judgment is affirmative, the selected communication parties being one or more communication parties that correspond to one or more pieces of necessity information indicating that the predetermined mail is to be transmitted to a corresponding communication party; and transmitting the predetermined mail to the selected communication parties using pieces of mail-transmission destination information corresponding to the selected communication parties.
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9. A non-transitory computer readable medium used in a mobile telephone having a mail transmission function to cause a mail transmission process, the medium having stored thereon one or more sequences of instructions for causing one or more processors of the mobile telephone to perform steps comprising:
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storing, in a memory, an address book including one or more pieces of mail-transmission destination information each pertaining to a communication party and one or more pieces of necessity information each pertaining to a communication party, a piece of necessity information indicating whether or not a predetermined mail is to be transmitted to a corresponding communication party; making a judgment, when an incoming event occurs, whether the incoming event meets a specific requirement; selecting one or more communication parties from the address book when the judgment is affirmative, the selected communication parties being one or more communication parties that correspond to one or more pieces of necessity information indicating that the predetermined mail is to be transmitted to a corresponding communication party; and transmitting the predetermined mail to the selected communication parties using pieces of mail-transmission destination information corresponding to the selected communication parties.
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