Method and apparatus for managing electronic mail
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJae-Ho Kim
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing an electronic mail. An e-mail address is extracted from a received electronic mail, and then the extracted e-mail address is stored. An electronic mail is sent using the stored e-mail address. Accordingly, unlike an existing method of generating an e-mail address of a receiver, who will receive an e-mail, by using external input keys, an e-mail address of a receiver can be found from previously stored e-mail addresses. Thus, it is not necessary to include many external input keys. Also, the inconvenience a user may experience when manipulating external input keys to generate an e-mail address of a receiver can be minimized.
Claims31
A method of managing an electronic mail, the method comprising:
- extracting an e-mail address from a received electronic mail;
- storing the extracted e-mail address;
- and
- sending an electronic mail using the stored e-mail address.
An apparatus managing an electronic mail, the apparatus comprising:
- an e-mail address manager that extracts an e-mail address from a received electronic mail and stores the extracted e-mail address;
- and
- a transmission manager that sends an electronic mail using the e-mail address stored in the e-mail address manager.
A method of managing an electronic message, comprising:
- receiving a first electronic message;
- extracting a sender address from the received first electronic message;
- storing the extracted sender address;
- and
- sending a second electronic message using the stored sender address.
A method of managing electronic mail, comprising:
- determining whether a received electronic mail includes an e-mail address;
- extracting the e-mail address from the received electronic mail;
- and
- storing the extracted e-mail address.
An e-mail address manager, comprising:
- an e-mail reception checker that checks whether an e-mail is received via an input port IN2 and outputs the checked result as a first control signal;
- an e-mail address checker that receives the first control signal to check whether the e-mail contains an e-mail address and outputs a checked result as a second control signal;
- an e-mail address extractor that extracts the e-mail address from the checked result in the second control signal and outputs the extracted e-mail address;
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- a storage unit that stores the extracted e-mail address.
An e-mail transmission manager, comprising:
- an e-mail address request checker that outputs a search request in a third control signal if a request for a stored e-mail address is detected;
- an e-mail address storage checker that searches a storage unit for the e-mail address if the third control signal contains the search request and outputs the e-mail address in a fourth control signal if the e-mail address is located in the storage unit;
- an e-mail address generator that generates an e-mail address if there is not a search request in the third control signal and no stored e-mail address in the fourth control signal;
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- a transmission request checker that outputs the stored e-mail address or the generated e-mail address in a fifth control signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.