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US 2002/0175939 A1Published application
Method of forwarding electronic mail and a mailing system
OwnerMototsugu Iwasainventor
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Abstract
In an electronic mailing system, a client terminal displays on a screen, a list of mails received by the user of the client terminal and a plurality of destination icons in association with the name of mail recipients, wherein when one of the received mails is overlapped on one of the destination icons through a drag and drop operation on the screen, the selected mail is forwarded to a destination address previously registered in association with the overlapped destination icon.
Claims12
A method of forwarding an electronic mail, comprising the steps of:
- displaying a list of received electronic mails;
- displaying indicators representing candidates of forwarding destinations of an electronic mail;
- and
- accepting selection of at least one electronic mail from said displayed list of received electronic mails, recognizing that said selected electronic mail is overlapped on one of said indicators representing the candidates of forwarding destinations, and forwarding the selected received electronic mail to a destination corresponding to said overlapped indicator.
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A mail system comprising:
- means for displaying a list of received electronic mails on a display screen;
- means for displaying indicators representing candidates of destinations of electronic mails on said display screen;
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- a mail controller for accepting selection of at least one electronic mail from said displayed list of received electronic mails, recognizing that said selected electronic mail is overlapped on one of said indicators representing the candidates of the destinations, and forwarding the selected received electronic mail to a destination corresponding to the overlapped indicator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.