JPH0330545A - Message communication processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display a notice board, which is not registered by an electronic notice board registering person, by providing a managing means to manage the condition of communication between a terminal and a center equipment and outputting the managed communication condition as the notice board corresponding to a request from the terminal. CONSTITUTION:When a message is received from a terminal 1 through a public network 6 to a line control part 9, a mail processor 7 checks whether date change time comes or not. In the case of the date change time, the weekly input/output time of the terminal is reset according to a day or day of the week in a terminal managing table and the contents of the table are transferred to an electronic notice board storing part 12 and noticed. When the contents of the message are not the date change time but an input from the terminal, message input processing is executed form the terminal to the mail processor. The input count value of the terminal managing table is incremented and the contents of the table are transferred to the notice board storing part and noticed. When the inputted message is outputted to the other terminal, the output count quantity of the terminal managing table is incremented and the contents of the table are transferred to the electronic notice board storing part 12 and noticed.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a message communication processing system, particularly a message communication system having an electronic bulletin board function that treats information such as a single character image as a message and displays a bulletin board in response to the message. It concerns a processing system.

[Prior art] As one of the basic functions of a message communication processing system,
Electronic bulletin board services are known.

In this system, a shared bulletin board is prepared that anyone can view, and the contents of the bulletin board can be retrieved from a terminal or registered on the bulletin board. In conventional systems, bulletin board users only retrieve the bulletin board contents that have been registered in advance on the bulletin board.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, the conventional system has the following drawbacks.

(1) It is not possible to know the system status, such as how often each terminal is used.

(2) If the electronic bulletin board registrant does not register the content to be posted, it will not be posted on the bulletin board.

The present invention eliminates the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks and provides a message communication processing system that can display bulletin boards that are not registered by electronic bulletin board registrants, such as system status.

[Means for Solving the Problem] In order to solve this problem, the message communication of the present invention -
The processing system is a message communication processing system consisting of a communication terminal that processes information including a single image of a character, and a center device that has an electronic bulletin board function that displays a bulletin board based on messages from the communication terminal. a management means for managing the communication status with the
and a bulletin board for outputting the communication status managed by the management means as a bulletin board in response to a request from the terminal.

Here, the management means includes a means for counting the number of times the center apparatus receives data from a terminal, a means for counting the number of times the center apparatus sends an output to the terminal, and a storage means for storing the number of times of transmission and reception from each terminal. Equipped with.

[Operation] In this configuration, by outputting the managed communication status as a bulletin board, bulletin boards that are not registered by electronic bulletin board registrants can be displayed.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the message communication processing system of this embodiment. In the figure, 1 to 5 are a group of mail terminals, which are telematic terminals such as teletex and facsimile.

7 is a mail processing device that stores and exchanges messages and controls the system as the center of the message communication processing system; 6 is a public line network that connects the mail processing device 7 and the mail terminals 1 to 5, and is a digital data line network; , leased lines, telephone line networks, etc.

The mail processing device 7 includes a main control section 8 that controls the entire system, a communication control section 9 that controls the connection between the public line network 6 and the mail processing device 7, a mail processing program (including an electronic bulletin board processing program), and a main control section 8 that controls the entire system. It is comprised of a main memory 1o that stores communication data, etc., an automatically created bulletin board storage section 11 that stores bulletin boards created within the mail processing device 7, and an electronic bulletin board storage section 12 that stores bulletin board contents in bulletin board form.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the format of a withdrawal request message in the message communication processing system of this embodiment, and is composed of frames 31-34.

During formatting, the service type 31 specifies bulletin board service. The name of the sender is written in the sender name 32.

The media type is entered in the media type 33. The drawer number 34 is an identification number that specifies the content of the bulletin board. Frame 35 writes other information such as comments.

FIG. 3 is a terminal management table as an example of a bulletin board stored in the automatically created bulletin board storage unit 11, which includes the terminal ID name, terminal address, the number of times the terminal is used today (input/output), and the number of times the terminal is used per week (input/output). This is a table that stores other management information and the like.

Enter the ID name of each terminal connected to the mail processing device in the terminal ID name field. The address is an address number that identifies the terminal. Today's and weekly mail frequency (input/output) records the number of times the terminal inputs messages to the mail processing device as input, and the number of times the mail processing device outputs messages to the terminal as output. This records the number of inputs and outputs for that day, or the number of inputs and outputs for that week.

Next, an example of electronic bulletin board service processing by the message communication processing system of this embodiment having the above configuration will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG. explain. Under the control of the main control section 8, the mail processing device 7 executes the following processing according to the electronic bulletin board processing program stored in the main storage section IO. In FIG. 1, consider a case where terminal 1 sends a message to a mail processing device.

When the message from the terminal 1 is received by the line control unit 9 via the public line network 6, the mail processing device, which was in an idle state in step Sl, moves from date and input/output monitoring to step S2.

In step S2, it is checked whether or not it is time to change the date. If it is time to change the date, the process advances to step S3. In step S3, the number of inputs and outputs of the terminal per week is reset according to today or the day of the week in the terminal management table.

Then, the process moves to step S4, and the contents of this table are transferred to the electronic bulletin board storage section 13 and posted, and the process returns to the start.

In step S2, if it is not time to change the date, the process proceeds to step S5, and if the message content was input from the terminal, the process proceeds to step S6, where message input processing from the terminal to the mail processing device is performed. Then, the process proceeds to step S7, where the input count value of the terminal management table is incremented, and the contents of this table are transferred to the bulletin board storage section and posted in step S8, and the process proceeds to step S9. In step S9, it is determined whether or not the input message is to be output to another terminal. If the message is to be output, the process advances to step Sll; otherwise, the process returns to the start.

If it is not input in step S5, the process advances to step S10,
If the output is to another terminal, the process advances to step Sll. If there is no output, return to the start. In step Sll, a message is outputted to a predetermined terminal, and step S1
2, the output count amount of the terminal management table is incremented. In step S13, the contents of the table are transferred to the electronic bulletin board storage section 12, the bulletin board is posted, and the process returns to the start.

In this embodiment, a terminal processing table for managing the number of inputs and outputs from the terminal was created and posted. However, the contents of the bulletin board may differ depending on each system, and multiple bulletin contents may be created and the contents of the bulletin board can be read from the terminal. The terminal management table may be selected and posted, or the terminal management table may be posted directly from the automatically created bulletin board storage section.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the mail processing device can automatically create and post message content on an electronic bulletin board without registering it from a terminal.

This also allows you to know the number of inputs and outputs for each terminal.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a message communication processing system that can display bulletin boards that are not registered by electronic bulletin board registrants, such as system status.

Furthermore, by applying the present invention, it is possible to know the system status such as how often each terminal is used.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of the message communication processing system of this embodiment. Fig. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the format of messages used in this embodiment. Fig. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the message format used in this embodiment. FIG. 4, which is a diagram showing the terminal management table, is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the electronic bulletin board service of this embodiment. In the figure, 1 to 5... communication terminal, 6... public line network, 7
. . . mail processing device, 8 . . . main control unit, 9 . . . line control unit, 10 . be.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) In a message communication processing system consisting of a communication terminal that processes information including text and images, and a center device that has an electronic bulletin board function that displays a bulletin board based on messages from the communication terminal, the terminal and the center device 1. A message communication processing system comprising: a management means for managing the communication status of the terminal; and a display means for outputting the communication status managed by the management means as a bulletin board in response to a request from the terminal. (2) The management means includes a means for counting the number of times the center device receives data from the terminal, a means for counting the number of times the center device outputs to the terminal, and a storage device for storing the number of times of transmission and reception from each terminal. 2. The message communication processing system according to claim 1, further comprising: