Patent ID: 7941487

Claim:
An electronic mail processing apparatus comprising: a data receiving section operable to receive mail data including video data or audio data; a cited data detecting section operable to detect a cited part of the received video data or audio data that is cited from mail data created by a creator different from a creator of the received mail, as cited data, from the mail data received by the data receiving section; and a reproduction control section operable to control a reproducing method of the received mail data based on the detection result by the cited data detecting section, wherein the reproduction control section controls the reproduction method so that a reproduction method for the cited data which is detected by the cited data detecting section is different from a reproduction method for data other than the cited data which is detected by the cited data detecting section in the received mail data, wherein the video data or audio data included in the cited data is data compressed by a specified compressing method and has a frame including a header portion in which information relating to the creator of the mail data is recorded, and wherein the cited data detecting section detects the cited part by using the information relating to the creator recorded in the header portion of the frame of the video data or audio data.