Data receiving with security feature
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsIsamu Haneda, Toshio Isoe
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Abstract
A data receiving apparatus in which mail from a sender for which a secret setting is made cannot be directly confirmed. In this data receiving apparatus, when a password is not inputted or when an incorrect password is inputted by a user when a display is in a state of password input screen, the display indicates only a received mail list for mails from persons who are identified by personal data sets stored in advance which do not have a secret flag. The display also indicates the number of all the mail data sets, including the mail data sets from persons for which the secret flag is set.
Claims8
A data receiving apparatus comprising:
- a receiver for receiving a mail data set;
- memory for storing the mail data set received by the receiver;
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- a display for displaying the mail data set stored in the memory,
- the data receiving apparatus further comprising:
- a designator for designating at least one sender in advance whose mail data set is desired to be kept secret, said designator being operable to determine whether a sender of a mail data set corresponds to any of said at least one sender, and, if so, designating the mail data set as coming from one of said at least one sender;
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- a display controller for causing the display not to display the mail data set coming from a sender designated by the designator, and to display only mail data sets from a sender other than the at least one sender designated by the designator.
A data receiving apparatus comprising:
- a receiver for receiving a mail data set;
- memory for storing the mail data set received by the receiver;
- and
- a display for displaying the mail data set stored in the memory,
- the data receiving apparatus further comprising:
- a designator for designating a list of senders in advance for which mail data sets from any sender on the list of senders are to be kept secret, wherein said designator is operable to determine whether a sender of a mail data set corresponds to any sender on said list of senders, and, if so, designating the mail data set as coming from a sender on the list of senders;
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- a display controller for encrypting the mail data set from a sender designated by the designator, and causing the display to display the mail data set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.