JP2004040304A - Electronic mail address control method and program, electronic mail terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of automatically updating a mail address registered in a memory dial information, by only receiving a mail of usual contents from a new mail address of the other party. <P>SOLUTION: The mail terminal has saved a keyword, showing a party in connection with his mail address. It receives a usual mail with a new mail address from the party (step 401), and extracts a keyword showing the party from the received mail to check whether there are memory dial information containing a keyword equal to the extracted keyword, if this mail address is not registered in memory dial information (step 403); but if it is already registered, saves (step 404) the new mail address together with the mail address of prior to change. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a mail address management method in an electronic mail system.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In an e-mail system such as a mobile phone, an e-mail address may be frequently changed due to a countermeasure against “junk mail” or the like. In such a case, it is necessary to change the mail address registered in the memory dial information. If the email address is not changed, a transmission error will occur.
[0003]
In order to change the mail address, usually, first, the other party receives an e-mail notifying that the e-mail address has been changed, and based on this, the mail address registered in the memory dial information must be re-entered.
[0004]
In view of such inconvenience, there is disclosed a prior art in which a mail address registered in memory dial information is automatically changed. For example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-163924, the transmitting side transmits a keyword indicating an address change and an address before the change together with a transmission message, and the receiving side recognizes the address before the change based on the keyword indicating the change, A technique is disclosed in which a pre-change address is searched from a management table of addresses on a receiving side and replaced with a post-change address. What is common to these prior arts is that information other than a new e-mail address is sent from the other party in relation to a change in the e-mail address.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, it is difficult to always expect that the other party will send some information regarding the change of the mail address in addition to the new mail address. In today's situation, where individuals have multiple email addresses and email address changes are increasing, such expectations are becoming increasingly difficult. Therefore, it must be said that the technology based on such expectations is not effective.
[0006]
It is strongly desired that the receiving side can manage the address change independently without relying on the other party, because the receiving party is more disadvantageous in changing the mail address of the other party.
[0007]
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for automatically changing a mail address registered in memory dial information only by receiving a mail having normal contents from a new mail address of the other party.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention extracts a keyword indicating a partner included in a received mail from a new mail address. The keyword and the mail address before the change are stored in the memory dial information of the receiving terminal in association with each other, and the new mail address is associated with the mail address before the change by extracting the keyword.
[0009]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[0010]
Referring to FIG. 1, an e-mail terminal device of the present invention connected to a network 10 includes a transmission / reception unit 11, a control unit 12, a display unit 13, an operation unit 14, a ROM (Read Only Memory) unit 15, , A RAM (Random Access Memory) unit 16 and a communication unit 17.
[0011]
The network 10 is a mobile phone network, the Internet, or the like.
[0012]
The control unit 12 classifies the data received by the transmission / reception unit 11 via the network 10 according to the type of data, stores the data in the ROM unit 15 or the RAM unit 16, and displays the content on the display unit 13 at the same time. If the received data is a mail, it is stored in the RAM unit 16. On the other hand, the mail text data input by the operation unit 14 is transmitted via the transmission / reception unit 11 using the mail address input by the operation unit 14 or the mail address stored in the RAM unit 16. Further, when an e-mail is received from an e-mail address that is not stored in the RAM unit 16, a keyword indicating the sender is extracted from the e-mail and a check is performed to determine whether or not the e-mail is included in the keywords stored in the RAM unit 16. If the keyword is included, the mail address before the change associated with the keyword is associated with the new mail address and stored in the RAM unit 16.
[0013]
The operation unit 14 has a keypad or the like, is capable of inputting alphanumeric characters, various symbols, and the like, and can operate the display content of the display unit 13.
[0014]
When the e-mail terminal device is a mobile phone, the communication unit 17 is configured by a receiver and a microphone, and performs reception and transmission.
[0015]
FIG. 2A shows an example of data storage in the RAM unit 16. As the memory dial information, a name storage area 161, an e-mail address storage area 162 associated therewith, a reception date and time storage area 163 for recording the reception date and time from the e-mail address, and an e-mail from the user with the name It has a keyword storage area 164 for storing keywords to be specified. As the types of keywords, there are a nickname 201 (a character string prefixed to an e-mail address) of header information and a character string (name 202, signature 203) fixedly input in the mail body. An example is shown in FIG. Further, it has a mail storage area 165 for storing transmitted and received mail documents.
[0016]
Next, among the operations of the e-mail terminal device, the flow of the registration processing of the memory dial information will be described with reference to FIG. In step 301, a memory dial information editing function is selected from the operation unit 14. The memory dial information indicates the entire name, mail address, reception date and time, and keywords stored in the RAM unit 16. After inputting the name in step 302, the mail address corresponding to the name is input in step 303. These are stored in a name storage area 161 and a mail address storage area 162, respectively. Here, a plurality of e-mail addresses can be input. After this input, in step 304, it is confirmed whether or not to input a keyword for checking the mail address when receiving the mail. If no input is made, the process ends. When inputting, in step 305, a keyword for searching at the time of mail reception is input.
[0017]
Next, the flow of processing when receiving a mail will be described with reference to FIG. When a mail is received from the transmitting / receiving unit 11 in step 401, the control unit 12 checks in step 402 whether the mail address of the received mail is registered in the memory dial information. If it is registered in the memory dial information, in step 405, the reception date and time corresponding to the mail address is stored in the reception date and time storage area 163, and the process ends here. If the mail address is not registered in the memory dial information, in step 403, the control unit 12 performs a keyword search and checks whether there is memory dial information with a matching keyword. If there is no coincident memory dial information, the process ends here. If there is matching memory dial information, in step 404, additional registration of this mail address and the reception date and time are stored in the corresponding memory dial information.
[0018]
Next, the flow of processing at the time of mail transmission will be described with reference to FIG. In step 501, a mail creation function is selected from the operation unit 14 to create a mail text. In step 502, a destination is selected by name from the memory dial information. In step 503, the control unit 12 displays a list of mail addresses associated with the selected names in order of reception date and time. In step 504, the user selects an appropriate e-mail address from the displayed e-mail address list and transmits the e-mail.
[0019]
The electronic mail terminal device of the present invention may be configured by a mobile phone, a personal computer, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), or the like.
[0020]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, even when the person sending the mail changes the mail address, the mail address registered in the memory dial information is automatically received only by receiving the mail from the changed mail address. Can be updated. In addition, when sending an e-mail, it is possible to know when the other party has used the e-mail address. Can be performed.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an electronic mail terminal device of the present invention.
FIG. 2A is a schematic diagram of a ROM unit 16, and FIG. 2B is an example of a keyword in a received mail.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of a process of registering memory dial information in an operation of the electronic mail terminal device.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing at the time of receiving a mail in the operation of the electronic mail terminal device.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing at the time of mail transmission in the operation of the electronic mail terminal device.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Network 11 Transmission / reception part 12 Control part 13 Display part 14 Operation part 15 ROM part 16 RAM part 17 Communication part 161 Name storage area 162 E-mail address storage area 163 Reception date and time storage area 164 Keyword storage area 165 E-mail storage area 201 Nickname 202 Name 203 Signature 301-305 Step 401-405 Step 501-504 Step

Claims (8)

The e-mail terminal associates the mail address of the other party with the keyword indicating the other party and registers it in the memory dial information, and when receiving a mail from the new mail address of the other party, extracts the keyword indicating the other party from the received mail, An e-mail address management method for associating a new e-mail address with a pre-change e-mail address via the keyword,
Registering the address of the other party in the memory dial information in association with the keyword indicating the other party;
When receiving the mail, checking whether there is memory dial information having a mail address matching the mail address of the mail,
If there is no memory dial information having a mail address matching the mail address, a keyword indicating the other party is extracted from the received mail including the document and the header information, and whether there is memory dial information having a keyword matching the keyword Checking the
If there is memory dial information having a keyword that matches the keyword, registering the mail address of the received mail in the memory dial information together with the mail address originally registered;
A method of displaying an e-mail address of the received e-mail and the originally registered e-mail address in ascending order of reception date and time when transmitting the e-mail to the other party. The method of claim 1, wherein the email terminal is a mobile phone. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic mail terminal is a personal computer. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic mail terminal is Personal @ Digital @ Assistant. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the keyword is a nickname added to a mail address included in header information. The method according to claim 1, wherein the keyword is a name or a signature included in a mail document. E-mail terminal device,
Registering the address of the other party in the memory dial information in association with the keyword indicating the other party;
When receiving the mail, checking whether there is memory dial information having a mail address matching the mail address of the mail,
If there is no memory dial information having a mail address matching the mail address, a keyword indicating the other party is extracted from the received mail including the document and the header information, and whether there is memory dial information having a keyword matching the keyword Checking the
If there is memory dial information having a keyword that matches the keyword, registering the mail address of the received mail in the memory dial information together with the mail address originally registered;
An e-mail address management program for executing, when sending an e-mail to the other party, displaying the e-mail address of the received e-mail and the originally registered e-mail address in ascending order of reception date and time. In an e-mail terminal device connected to a network and transmitting and receiving e-mail,
The name of the other party, the mail address, the date and time of receiving the mail, the memory dial information including the keyword indicating the other party, and the memory unit for storing the received mail, the mail address of the other party, and the keyword indicating the other party are associated with each other. When the mail is registered in the memory dial information and the mail is received, it is checked whether there is any memory dial information having the mail address matching the mail address of the mail, and there is no memory dial information having the mail address matching the mail address. In the case, a keyword indicating the other party is extracted from the received mail including the document and the header information, and it is checked whether there is memory dial information having a keyword matching the keyword, and the memory dial information having a keyword matching the keyword is checked. If there is The e-mail address of the received e-mail is registered in the memory dial information together with the e-mail address that was originally registered, and when transmitting e-mail to the other party, the e-mail address of the received e-mail and the e-mail address that was originally registered An electronic mail terminal device, comprising: means for displaying a mail address on a display in the descending order of reception date and time.

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