Patent ID: 7912912
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An information communication terminal that displays, together with a received mail list, at least part of a message of a received mail in a predetermined display area, comprising: a receiving unit receiving a mail; a storage unit storing therein the received mail in association with unread/read information indicating whether the received mail has already been read; a judgment unit (i) making a first judgment on whether all of the message of the received mail is displayed in the predetermined display area, (ii) comparing a count of characters included in the message of the received mail and a count of characters that can be displayed in the predetermined display area, and (iii) making the first judgment affirmatively in a case when the count of characters included in the message of the received mail is equal to or less than the count of characters that can be displayed in the predetermined display area; and an update unit performing an update in a case when the first judgment is affirmative so that the unread/read information indicates that the received mail has already been read, wherein the judgment unit further makes, in a case when the count of characters included in the message of the received mail is greater by one, than the count of characters that can be displayed in the predetermined display area, a second judgment on whether a last character in the message of the received mail is a period, and the update unit performs the update also in a case when the second judgment is affirmative, without deleting any part of the message of the received mail which is displayed in the predetermined display area.