Patent ID: 7454473

Claim:
A mail-arrival notification system, comprising: a mail-arrival monitoring apparatus configured to judge based on mail-arrival notification condition information whether an electronic mail including an attached file arriving at a mail server is an urgent mail based on a keyword included in said electronic mail, and, when said electronic mail is an urgent mail, to generate a summary of said urgent mail, and to transmit said summary together with a mail-arrival notifying signal excluding said attached file to a mail destination designated by said mail-arrival notification condition information; a mobile communication terminal configured to notify a user of arrival of said urgent mail, in response to said mail-arrival notifying signal transmitted from said mail-arrival monitoring apparatus, and to transmit an acquisition instructing signal and a wake-up signal to a remote information processing apparatus in order to instruct said remote information processing apparatus to acquire said urgent mail and attached file; and said remote information processing apparatus configured to receive said acquisition instructing signal and said wake-up signal transmitted from said mobile communication terminal, to output, in response to receiving said wake-up signal, a wake-up instruction to a power control unit to force the power control unit to supply power to respective circuits of the remote information processing apparatus, and to acquire said urgent mail including said attached file from said mail server, in response to receiving said acquisition instructing signal.