Patent ID: 7113976
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus having a function of transmitting/receiving e-mail, comprising: receiving means for receiving an e-mail; storage means for storing a plurality of kinds of communication partner information including an e-mail address or a telephone number for each communication partner; first detecting means for detecting, from the received e-mail, a plurality of identifiers in a body part of the received e-mail, where each of the plurality of identifiers is represented by a first character string and symbols bracketing the first character string; specifying means for specifying kinds of identifiers detected by said first detecting means; second detecting means for detecting a plurality of second character strings, each of which follows each of the respective identifiers specified by said specifying means; registering means for registering the plurality of second character strings detected by said second detecting means into areas in said storage means, each of which corresponds to the kind of the identifier followed by the second character string; and control means for controlling said registering means to perform the registration only if the detected identifier followed by the second character string is one of a predetermined kind of identifier, wherein if a plurality of identifiers, each of which indicates the name of a communication partner, are specified by said specifying means, said control means controls said registering means to repeatedly perform the registration for every identifier indicating the name of the communication; sending means for sending an e-mail; extracting means for extracting the communication partner information stored in said storage means; adding means for adding, to every communication partner information extracted by said extracting means, an identifier corresponding to the kind of the communication partner information; and generating means for generating an e-mail including, in its body part, all of the extracted communication partner information with the identifier; wherein said sending means sends the e-mail generated by said generating means to a new communication apparatus in order to enable the new communication apparatus to register the communication partner information into a storage means by receiving the e-mail.