METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION OF EMAIL

• US 20120254771A1
• Filed: 05/18/2011
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Zhou, Baozhong
• Granted Patent: US 8,943,418 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/752
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of email sending and receiving and discloses a method and device for displaying the information of an email. The method includes obtaining email display information through an email agent; invoking a text display interface; displaying the obtained display information to a user in a coded format of Unicode when the user selects the email. In the device, email display information is obtained through an email agent; a text display interface is invoked; the obtained display information is displayed to the user in a coded format of Unicode when the user selects the email. As Unicode is an important universal character coding standard for interaction and display, great convenience may be brought to email senders and receivers in different languages, as well as other users.

Claims

1. A method for displaying information of an email, comprising:

obtaining email display information through an email agent;

invoking a text display interface; and

displaying the obtained display information to a user in a coded format of Unicode when the user selects the email.

2. The method for displaying information of an email according to claim 1, wherein the email display information comprises:

an addresser, an email address of the user, corresponding carbon copy recipients, a subject of the email, names of attachments attached to the email, a body of the email, and a sending time of the email.

3. The method for displaying information of an email according to claim 1, wherein after the step of obtaining email display information through an email agent, the method further comprises:

loading corresponding email entries into a sms list; and

inserting the obtained email entries into a sms inbox.

4. The method for displaying information of an email according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

in an inbox interface presented in a form of Unicode, editing contents of an email body in a text editing interface; and

sending the edited contents of the body in another email.

5. A device for displaying information of an email, comprising:

an email display information obtaining module, configured to obtain email display information through an email agent;

a text display interface invoking module, configured to invoke a text display interface; and

a display module, configured to display the obtained display information to a user in a coded format of Unicode when the user selects the email.

6. The device for displaying information of an email according to claim 5, wherein the email display information comprises:

an addresser, email address of the user, corresponding carbon copy recipients, a subject of the email, names of attachments attached to the email, a body of the email, and a sending time of the email.

7. The device for displaying information of an email according to claim 5, wherein the device further comprises:

an email entry loading module, configured to load corresponding email entries into a sms list; and

an email entry processing module, configured to insert the obtained email entries into a sms inbox.

8. The device for displaying information of an email according to claim 5, wherein the device further comprises:

an edit module, configured to, in an inbox interface with content presented in a form of Unicode, edit contents of an email body in a text editing interface; and

a sending module, configured to send the edited contents of the body in another email.

9. The device for displaying information of an email according to claim 5, wherein content of a body of text is presented in Unicode in the text display interface.

10. A method, comprising:

obtaining email display information through an email agent;

invoking a text display interface;

displaying the email display information on an interface; and

providing a text editing interface operative to edit the email display information in a Unicode format.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the email display information includes a message body.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the email display information is displayed in an inbox interface.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the email display information includes the names of attachments.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the text editing interface is provided in response to a reply function.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein:

the email display information includes a message body edited through the text editing interface, and

the edited message body is sent in a reply email message.