Transmission device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016359787-A1
Application number	US-201515117610-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 17, 2015
Priority date	Jun 24, 2014
Publication date	Dec 8, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A communication device is provided which includes a transmission unit, a BCC memory unit, a reception unit, a determination module, an accepting module and a mail generation module. The BCC memory unit stores the BCC destination of the mail sent in the past while being associated with the mail. The determination module determines whether or not a mail that the reception unit receives is a reply mail to the mail including the BCC destination that the transmission unit sent in the past. The mail generation module generates a mail addressed to sending destinations to which the BCC destination stored in the BCC destination memory unit while being associated with a mail of a reply source is added in addition to a sending destination that the accepting module accepts for the mail determined to be a reply mail to the mail including the BCC destination and sent in the past.

First claim

1 . A communication device comprising:
a transmission unit that sends a mail; a BCC destination memory unit that stores a BCC destination of a mail sent by the transmission unit in the past; a reception unit that receives a mail; a determination module that determines whether or not the mail received by the reception unit is a reply mail to the mail including the BCC destination that was sent by the transmission unit in the past; an accepting module that accepts commands in relation to transmission or reception of a mail; and a mail data generation module that generates, when the accepting module accepts a reply command to reply to, in mails that the reception unit has received, a mail that is determined to be a reply mail to a mail including a BCC destination that the transmission unit sent in the past by the determination module, a mail that is addressed to sending destinations to which a BCC destination stored in the BCC destination memory unit so as to be associated with a mail of a reply source of the reply mail is added in addition to a sending destination that the accepting module accepts.

2 . The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein
the BCC destination memory unit stores the BCC destination of the mail that the transmission unit sent in the past together with identifier information that identifies the mail, and wherein the determination module determines whether or not a mail received by the reception unit is a reply mail to the mail including the BCC destination that the transmission unit sent in the past based on the identifier information stored in the BCC destination memory unit.

3 . The communication device according to claim 3 , wherein
the BCC destination memory unit stores Message-id information that is given to the mail including the BCC destination that the transmission unit sent in the past as the identifier information, and wherein the determination module determines that a mail that the reception unit receives is a reply mail to the mail including the BCC destination that the transmission unit sent in the past in case the Message-id information stored in the BCC destination memory unit coincides with In-Reply-To information included in header information of the mail that the reception unit receives as a result of comparing the Message-id information with the In-Reply-To information.

4 . The communication device according to claim 3 , wherein
the BCC destination memory unit stores a mail message body of the mail including the BCC destination that the transmission unit sent in the past as the identifier information, and wherein the determination module determines that a mail that the reception unit receives is a reply mail to the mail including the BCC destination that the transmission unit sent in the past in case, as a result of comparing a mail message body of a mail that the reception unit receives with the mail message body that is stored in the BCC destination memory unit, the mail message body of the mail that the reception unit receives includes the mail message body that is stored in the BCC destination memory unit.

5 . The communication device according to claim 1 , comprising further a display unit and a display control module that controls a display operation by the display unit, wherein
when the accepting module accepts a reply command to reply to, in mails that the reception unit has received, a mail that is determined to be a reply mail to a mail including a BCC destination that the transmission unit sent in the past by the determination module, the display control module instructs the display unit to display the BCC destination that is stored in the BCC destination memory unit in such a way as to be associated with a mail of a reply source of the reply mail in a BCC destination input field that accepts a BCC destination.

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Sakaguchi Shoichi
• Takeda Hideki
• Tanaka Yoshihisa
• Hirobe Yumi

Classifications

• H04L51/42 Primary

  Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes · CPC title

• H04L51/14

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/28 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/22

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/48 Primary

  Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases · CPC title