Mobile communication apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsKanae HARADA, Akemi Toyokura, Takashi Goto, Takashi Ichinose, Takushiro Haneda
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Abstract
A controller of a mobile communication apparatus, such as a cellular phone, that determines whether a received email is urgent by comparing words and phrases contained in the received email with keywords and phrases in a database. The controller generates notice information, such as an icon, when the received email is determined to be urgent, so that a user can recognize that there is an email whose sender wants to contact the user. When the notice information is selected by manipulating a key input device, the controller makes a communication with the sender of the received email.
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A mobile communication apparatus, comprising:
- an interface configured to communicate with a base station;
- a display unit configured to display information;
- an input device configured to input instructions;
- a memory unit configured to store emails, and a keyword database including at least one keyword or phrase;
- a control unit configured to compare each word and phrase in a message in a received email with the at least one keyword or phrase in the keyword database, determine that the received email is an urgent email if the message includes at least one word or phrase coinciding with the at least one keyword or phrase in the keyword database, display notice information on the display unit if the received email is determined to be urgent, and perform a communication with a sender of the received email when the displayed first notice information is selected via the key input device.
A mobile communication apparatus, comprising:
- an interface configured to communicate with a base station;
- a display unit configured to display information;
- an input device configured to input instructions;
- a memory unit configured to store emails, and a keyword database including at least one keyword or phrase;
- means for comparing each word and phrase in a message in a received email with the at least one keyword or phrase in the keyword database;
- means for determining that the received email is an urgent email if the message includes at least one word or phrase coinciding with the at least one keyword or phrase in the keyword database;
- means for displaying notice information on the display unit if the received email is determined to be urgent;
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- means for performing a communication with a sender of the received email when the displayed first notice information is selected via the key input device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.