Patent ID: 9032031
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An email processing apparatus, comprising: a display unit configured to display an email stored in an email storage unit; a correspondence storage unit configured to store a content category of the email displayed by the display unit and a search target category indicating a result category to which a search target email relating to the email displayed by the display unit belongs, in correspondence with a previous email; an attribute-determining storage unit configured to store a keyword and an attribute acquired by abstracting the keyword, in correspondence with the previous email, the attribute being generated by abstracting the keyword to further narrow down; a category-determination-information storage unit configured to store, in correspondence with the previous email, the content category and a content-determination character string indicating a character string contained in the email of the content category, wherein instructions that are stored on a memory, when executed by a processor, instruct the email processing apparatus to perform: a category determining unit configured to determine a content category of an email, from at least one of a main body of the email and a subject of the email stored in the email storage unit, the content category corresponding to the category-determination character string being the content category indicating the email in the category-determination information storage unit, when at least one of a main body of a currently displayed email and a subject of the currently displayed email displayed by the display unit contains the category-determination character string; a keyword receiving unit configured to receive input of a keyword; an attribute acquiring unit configured to acquire an attribute corresponding to the keyword input by the keyword receiving unit, from the attribute-determining storage unit; a specifying unit configured to specify a search target category by narrowing down the search target categories to which a search target email relating to the email belongs based on the association with the correspondence storage unit using the content category determined by the category determining unit and the attribute acquired by the acquiring unit; an acquiring unit configured to acquire search target information for searching for the search target email belonging to the search target category; and a creating unit configured to create a search condition for searching for the search target email that contains the search target information from the email storage unit.