Electronic mail viewing device and electronic mail editing device

• US 20080256211A1
• Filed: 06/12/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Junichi Shimizu
• Original Assignee: Junichi Shimizu
• Inventors: Shimizu, Junichi
• Application Number:
  US12/155,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20080256211A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide an e-mail editing device having excellent operability, in particular, an e-mail editing device capable of switching and displaying related e-mails. A display processor (27) simultaneously displays a message editing screen (32) for displaying an edition mail (24) and a mail reference screen (33) for displaying a reference mail (25) for reference. A reference processor (23) copies an object in the reference mail (25) to a temporary storage (22). An editor (21) pastes the object to an edition mail. A mail search portion (28) searches for an e-mail in a memory (14) on the basis of the reference mail (25). When a user performs a mail switching operation, the reference mail (25) is switched to a searched e-mail for display.

Claims

1-17. -17. (canceled)

18. An e-mail displaying device comprising:

a mail storage configured to store a plurality of e-mails;

an input switch configured to accept an input to the e-mail displaying device;

a display unit configured to display an e-mail; and

a processor configured to control operations of the e-mail displaying device, wherein, in response to an instruction to generate a new e-mail based on an e-mail displayed in a menu viewing screen, the processor causes the display unit to display a screen for editing the new e-mail without displaying a menu screen.

19. The e-mail displaying device according to claim 18, wherein, in response to an instruction to edit a reply e-mail to an incoming e-mail displayed on the mail viewing screen, the processor causes the display unit to display a screen for editing the reply e-mail'"'"'s body without displaying the menu screen.

20. The e-mail displaying device according to claim 18, wherein, in response to an instruction to edit a forwarding e-mail that forwards an incoming e-mail displayed on the mail viewing screen, the processor causes the display unit to display a screen for editing the body of the forwarding e-mail without displaying the menu screen.

21. The e-mail displaying device according to claim 18, wherein the processor causes the display unit to display the screen for editing the new e-mail'"'"'s body without blacking out the mail viewing screen.

22. The e-mail displaying device according to claim 21, wherein, in response to an instruction to move a cursor from the screen for editing the body to the mail viewing screen, the processor changes the e-mail displaying device'"'"'s operation mode to a copy mode for copying the e-mail'"'"'s content displayed in the mail viewing screen.

23. The e-mail displaying device according to claim 21, wherein, in response to the end of an instruction to select a scope for copying the mail displayed on the mail viewing screen, the processor moves the cursor displayed on the mail viewing screen to the screen for editing the new e-mail.