JPH02185158A - Communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify the operation of a sender by providing a means storing a message for confirming transmittal and a means editing a selected caller terminal number and a stored message and sending the result to an opposite equipment corresponding to the relevant caller terminal number to an electronic mail or a facsimile equipment or the like. CONSTITUTION:When the necessity of sending a transmittal confirmation message takes place to an opposite terminal equipment, a called party operates a selection section 14 to indicate one of caller terminal numbers displayed on a display section 13. Thus, the content corresponding to the relevant caller terminal number in a number memory 12 (caller terminal number, additional information, received date time information and received sheet number information or the like) is read and sent to a message edit transmission section 15. Simultaneously; a transmittal confirmation message of a message memory 16 is sent to the message edit transmission section 15. The message edit transmission section 15 inserts the caller terminal number, additional information, received date time information and received sheet number information or the like to the transmittal confirming message from the message memory 18 to compose the transmittal confirming message and sends it to the relevant opposite terminal equipment under the control of a FAX function section 10.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to communication devices such as e-mail and facsimiles, and particularly relates to a communication device that automatically performs delivery confirmation.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, communication devices such as e-mail and facsimile machines generally have a function that notifies the calling party of an abnormality in the receiving party's equipment and prompts the calling party to resend. It is a means of transmitting information about the direction, and the state when a call arrives (
Although it is possible to send information regardless of whether the person is present or absent, it is unknown whether the sent information was correctly delivered to the desired recipient.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In this way, with conventional communication devices, it is impossible to know whether the information you want to convey has been transmitted to the desired recipient.For example, when sending a document using facsimile, it is difficult to check whether the sent document has correctly reached the desired recipient. There was a problem that it was inconvenient to have to make a new phone call in order to do so.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a communication device in which a receiving side automatically notifies the sending side that information transmitted by the sending side has been received.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the communication device of the present invention includes means for receiving and storing a number of a calling device (hereinafter referred to as a calling terminal number) when receiving a call from one calling device, and a means for receiving and storing the number of the calling device (hereinafter referred to as a calling terminal number); means for displaying a number, means for selecting the displayed calling terminal number, means for storing a message for delivery confirmation, and editing the selected calling terminal number and the stored message. The present invention is characterized in that it has means for transmitting the received terminal number to the other party's device corresponding to the originating terminal number.

[For production]

In the present invention, in a device that automatically responds and communicates with the other party's device, the number of the transmitting device (calling terminal number) is stored on the receiving side, and the calling terminal number and delivery confirmation are sent based on instructions from the receiver. The sender edits a message and sends it to the other party's device with the originating terminal number to notify that the document, etc. has been correctly received.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In the following, a facsimile terminal will be used as an example.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a facsimile terminal, and its FAX function part 10
is an automatic response with the other party's facsimile information terminal.

In this embodiment, the FAX function part 10 includes the originating terminal, which is a functional part that a facsimile terminal generally has, such as reading the transmitted original, ejecting the recording paper, data compression, and decompression. The present invention is characterized in that a number receiving section 111, an originating terminal number memory 12, a display section 13, a selection section 14, a delivery confirmation message editing and transmitting section 15, a message memory 16, and a real time timer 17 are added.

The operation of FIG. 1 is as follows. When receiving a call from a calling terminal, the calling terminal number receiving section 11 takes in the terminal number (calling terminal number) sent from the calling terminal, and stores it in the number memory 1.
Store in 2. At this time, additional information (
When the originating terminal group, etc.) is also sent, its additional information is also sent,
Reception date and time information obtained from the real time timer 17 and F
Information such as the number of sheets obtained by the AX function section 1o is also stored in the number memory 12 together with the originating terminal number. Repeat this operation every time there is an incoming call. The originating terminal number stored in the number memory 12 is displayed on the display section 13. On the other hand, in the message memory 16, a message (delivery confirmation message) for transmitting a message to the other party's terminal indicating that the transmitted document has been received is stored in advance in a fixed format.

When it becomes necessary to send a delivery confirmation message to the other party's terminal, the recipient operates the selection section 14 to specify one of the calling terminal numbers displayed on the display section 13. This results in
Contents corresponding to the corresponding calling terminal number in the number memory 12 (calling terminal number, additional information, etc.)

(reception date and time information, number of received sheets information, etc.) are read out and sent to the message editing and transmitting section 15. At the same time, the message for delivery confirmation in the message memory 16 is also sent to the message editing and transmitting section 15. The message editing and transmitting unit 15 assembles the delivery confirmation message by inserting the originating terminal number, additional information, reception date and time information, number of received messages, etc. into the delivery confirmation message from the message memory 16, and
It is transmitted to the corresponding destination terminal under the control of the AX function section 10.

FIG. 2 is a specific example of a delivery confirmation message.

2\, r03-987-6543J is the calling terminal number,
oo" is additional information, r
1988/11/25 14:27J is the reception date and time, “3
” is the number of sheets received, r1988/11/25 14:41J
is the sending date and time, and these are variable information, but the other information is fixed information, and the fixed information is stored in advance in the message memory 16 as a message for delivery confirmation. As a result, the receiving party can notify the calling party of the delivery confirmation through a simple operation by the person viewing the received document or the like.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a second embodiment of the present invention, in which a recipient memory 18 and an input section 19 are further added to the configuration of FIG. This embodiment deals with the case where the facsimile terminal 1 is shared by multiple users, and the user who confirms the reception enters the name of the recipient in advance through the input section 19, and The person's name is stored in the person's name memory 18. When transmitting a delivery confirmation message to the other party's terminal, the message editing and transmitting section 15 stores the number 1 in the number memory 12.
, a delivery confirmation message is assembled from the contents from message memory 16 and recipient name memory 18. FIG. 4 shows a specific example of the delivery confirmation message generated by this embodiment. The difference from FIG. 2 is that "Recipient: Yamada Abe" is added.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a third embodiment of the present invention.

This configuration has a sender name memory 20 and an input section 21 added to the configuration shown in FIG. To operate this, a pair of the name (caller's name) of a party who is likely to receive a call or who frequently receives a call and the corresponding terminal number is stored in advance in the caller's name memory 20 using the input unit 21. Note that the input section 21 may also be used as the input section 19. When a call is received, the caller name memory 20 is searched based on the calling terminal number stored in the number memory 12, and if the corresponding name is stored, it is read out and displayed on the display section 13. As a result, the person to whom the call was made can be displayed on the display section 13 not only by the terminal number but also by name. The operation when transmitting a transmission confirmation message to the other party's terminal is similar to the embodiment shown in FIG.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, in the communication device of the present invention, a delivery confirmation message can be automatically notified from the receiving side to the sending side, and the sender can make sure that the sent document etc. reaches the desired recipient correctly. There is no need to make another phone call to check whether the information has been received.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a diagram showing a specific example of a delivery confirmation message, Figure 3 is a block diagram of another embodiment of the invention, and Figure 4 is a diagram of a delivery confirmation message. FIG. 5 is a block diagram of still another embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Facsimile terminal, 10... FAX function part, 11... Originating terminal number receiving part, 12... Number memory, 3... Display part, 14... Selection part, 5... Message editing and sending section. 6...Message memory, 7...Real time timer. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In a device that automatically responds and communicates with a partner device, means for receiving and storing the number of the calling device (hereinafter referred to as the calling terminal number) when receiving a call from the calling device; means for displaying a terminal number; means for selecting the displayed originating terminal number; means for storing a message for delivery confirmation; and editing the selected originating terminal number and the stored message. A communication device characterized in that it has means for transmitting the received terminal number to a partner device corresponding to the originating terminal number.