Patent ID: 6934738

Claim:
A message processing apparatus for receiving and displaying e-mail messages sent from a sending end to a receiving end, the e-mail messages having at least a header, a subject line, and a body, the apparatus comprising: reception means for receiving an e-mail message sent from the sending end; a keyword lookup table that associates predefined keywords with handler programs, the keywords representing a characteristic of the e-mail messages, such as worthiness or urgency; key information extraction means for examining the subject line or body of the e-mail message received by said reception means with reference to said keyword lookup table to determine whether the received e-mail message contains any one of the keywords defined in the keyword lookup table; program loading means, disposed at the receiving end, for consulting said keyword lookup table to load one of the handler programs that is associated with the keyword found in the received e-mail message, the handler programs including a program that displays a notification dialog box when the message processing apparatus is restarted, based on the keyword extracted by said key information extraction means; and execution means, disposed at the receiving end, for executing the handler program loaded by said program loading means at prescribed times.