Patent ID: 8392520
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A mobile communication apparatus, comprising: an interface configured to communicate with a base station; a display unit configured to display information; an input device configured to input instructions; a memory unit configured to store emails, a phonebook database including a plurality of sets of a telephone number, an email address, and a name, and a keyword database including at least one keyword or phrase; a control unit configured to compare each word and phrase in a message in a received email with the at least one keyword or phrase in the keyword database, determine that the received email is an urgent email if the message includes at least one word or phrase coinciding with the at least one keyword or phrase in the keyword database, acquire a required time to reply after receiving the urgent email until a reply email is sent to the sender if the received email is determined to be urgent, calculate an average reply time for a sender of the urgent email based on the acquired required time to reply, display first notice information with the average reply time on the display unit, and perform a communication with a sender of the received email when the displayed first notice information is selected via the key input device, the control unit also being configured to compare a sender email address contained in the received email with the email address in the phonebook database if the received email is determined to be urgent, generates link information between the received email and a telephone number in the phonebook database if the phonebook database stores an email address which coincides with the sender email address, and stores the generated link information in the memory unit in association with the received email determined to be urgent; a call-urgent email folder which stores the generated link information in the memory unit in association with the received email determined to be urgent; and an urgent email folder which stores the received email determined to be urgent when the control unit determines that there is no email address which coincides with the sender email address in the phonebook database.