Patent ID: 9712471
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A mail sending/receiving apparatus for sending and receiving an electronic mail including at least one of a character string and an image, the mail sending/receiving apparatus being implemented as a computer executing a predetermined program stored in a memory and comprising: a mail receiving unit configured to receive the electronic mail; a received mail determination unit configured to determine, after a first electronic mail is received by the mail receiving unit, whether a second electronic mail associated with the first electronic mail is received by the mail receiving unit; and a notification unit configured to perform, when it is determined by the received mail determination unit that the first electronic mail and the second electronic mail are associated with each other, notification of the first and the second electronic mails simultaneously, wherein a notification of the first electronic mail is not performed before determining whether a second electronic mail associated with the first electronic mail has been received, and wherein, in a case where the second electronic mail is received from the same sender as that of the first electronic mail within a predetermined time from when the first electronic mail is received, the received mail determination unit determines that the first electronic mail and the second electronic mail are associated with each other.