US 2006/0080366 A1 · Data file storage/management apparatus and electronic mail processing program thereof

Abstract

A data file storage/management apparatus, having file storage means, stores and manages one or more data files, and the data file storage/management apparatus installs an electronic mail processing program therein, thereby operating as follows. Thus, the data file storage/management apparatus interprets the processing of the data file, which is described in a program-like manner, at least within the main sentence thereof, when receiving the electronic mail, and starts the processing of the data file designated or instructed; thereby enabling to instruct, easily, the processing on the data files, being various for users thereof, to the data file storage/management apparatus.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A data file storage and management apparatus, comprising:

file storage means for storing at least one data file therein;
mail interpreting means for interpreting an electronic mail, which includes a process on the data file described in a program manner within a portion of a subject matter and/or a main sentence thereof, thereby obtaining the process of the data file instructed;
file processing startup means for starting up an instructed process of the data file.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/233,244Filed 21 Sep 2005

Priority

JP 2004-28212028 Sep 2004

Published

13 Apr 2006

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06Q 10/107
Office automation; Time management: computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
H04L 51/42
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail:…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial
H04L
Digital communication

Data file storage/management apparatus and electronic mail processing program thereof

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Data file storage/management apparatus and electronic mail processing program thereof

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Abstract

Claims5