Electronic mail typestyle processing device

• US 20020174186A1
• Filed: 05/13/2002
• Published: 11/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: RISO Kagaku Corporation
• Original Assignee: RISO Kagaku Corporation
• Inventors: Yamazaki, Yasuhiro, Hashimoto, Koichi, Bai, Xuqiang
• Application Number:
  US10/142,940
• Publication Number:
  US 20020174186A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression

Abstract

A user typestyle font reflecting personality of a registered user is stored in a font data memory in advance. When an electronic mail from the registered user is received, an authorizer performs authorization processing and then a typestyle of text of the electronic mail is processed by a text typestyle processor by use of the user typestyle font. The electronic mail is transmitted to a receiver of the electronic mail thereafter.

Claims

1. An electronic mail typestyle processing device mutually connected with an electronic mail transmission terminal and an electronic mail receiving terminal via information transmission means, said electronic mail typestyle processing device comprising:

a registered user identifier storing section for storing an identifier of a user registered in advance;

a user typestyle font storing section for storing a user typestyle font for each registered user, the user typestyle font reflecting personality of the registered user;

a receiving section for receiving an electronic mail transmitted from the electronic mail transmission terminal,

an authorizing section for referring to the registered user identifier storing section to judge as to whether data constituting the electronic mail received by the receiving section contains the identifier of the registered user; and

a typestyle processing section for creating character image data by processing a typestyle of text of the electronic mail judged by the authorizing section as containing the identifier of the registered user by use of the user typestyle font stored in the user typestyle font storing section.

2. The electronic mail typestyle processing device according to claim 1, wherein the registered user identifier storing section stores an electronic mail address of the registered user as the identifier of the registered user.

3. The electronic mail typestyle processing device according to any one of claims 1 and 2, further comprising:

a data replacing section for replacing the data constituting the text of the electronic mail judged by the authorizing section as containing the identifier of the registered user with the character image data created by the typestyle processing section; and

a transmitting section for transmitting the electronic mail, of which the data constituting the text are replaced with the character image data by the data replacing section, to the electronic mail receiving terminal.

4. The electronic mail typestyle processing device according to any one of claims 1 and 2, further comprising:

a character image data disclosing section for disclosing the character image data created by the typestyle processing section as a Web page;

an access information data replacing section for replacing the data constituting the text of the electronic mail, which is judged by the authorizing section as containing the identifier of the registered user, with access information for having use for access to the Web page; and

a transmitting section for transmitting the electronic mail, of which the data constituting the text are replaced with the access information by the access information data replacing section, to the electronic mail receiving terminal.

5. The electronic mail typestyle processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising:

a correspondence table storing section for storing an destination-based process propriety correspondence table in which an electronic mail address of each destination is recorded severally for the registered user in association with a specifier specifying as to whether the typestyle of the text of the electronic mail to be transmitted to each destination is to be processed; and

a process propriety discriminating section for referring to the destination-based process propriety correspondence table stored in the correspondence table storing section to judge for each destination as to whether the typestyle of the text of the electronic mail judged by the authorizing section as containing the identifier of the registered user is to be processed.

6. The electronic mail typestyle processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 5,

wherein an address inside the electronic mail typestyle processing device is allocated severally to the registered user and the receiving section is designed to receive an electronic mail transmitted to the address allocated severally to the registered user, and

the electronic mail typestyle processing device further includes:

an address extracting section for extracting an electronic mail address which is an actual destination out of the data constituting the electronic mail received by the receiving section; and

an address rewriting section for rewriting a destination address of the electronic mail received by the receiving section into the electronic mail address which is the actual destination.