Patent ID: 8391855
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A mail operation apparatus with a short range communications function, the apparatus comprising: a communications link connecting device that makes connection of a short range wireless communications link with a cellular phone; a protocol connecting device that makes, with the cellular phone, connection of a plurality of protocols under a condition that the short range communications link is made between the communications link connecting device and the cellular phone, the plurality of protocols including a mail transfer protocol to enable a transfer of mail information of a mail which the cellular phone receives from a communications network; and a control circuit that controls making and disrupting of the connection of the plurality of protocols between the protocol connecting device and the cellular phone, the control circuit being further configured, (i) immediately after the short range wireless communications link is made between the communications link connecting device and the cellular phone, to make connection of an other protocol other than the mail transfer protocol between the protocol connecting device and the cellular phone without making the connection of the mail transfer protocol between the protocol connecting device and the cellular phone, and (ii) when a start trigger then occurs in the cellular phone posterior to the making the connection of the other protocol, the start trigger being an arrival of a mail from the communications network, to make connection of the mail transfer protocol between the protocol connecting device and the cellular phone, thereby enabling a transfer of mail information of the mail from the cellular phone using a data transfer function of the mail transfer protocol, if the cellular phone undergoing the arrival of the mail is a model compliant with the mail transfer protocol.