JPH0392951A - Down load advancing condition display system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To release the irritated feeling or uneasy feeling of an operator by adding the total capacity information of data, which are down-loaded, into a message to be sent from a host device, referring these total capacity information in a terminal equipment and displaying a down load advancing condition. CONSTITUTION:In a control part 21 of a terminal equipment 2, table data 23 to be used for the control of the terminal are stored in a disk device 22. When the down load is started, at first, a host controller 1 adds the total capacity information of down load data to the message starting the down load. Next, the host controller 1 successively transmits the down load data and the terminal 2 receiving these data writes them into the disk 22. Afterwards, according to the total capacity of the down load data, which is saved when the down load starting message is received, and the total amount of the really received data, the rate of the received data amount is calculated and this result is displayed in a display. Thus, the down load advancing condition can be visually informed and the irritated feeling or uneasy feeling of the operator can be released.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a method for notifying an operator of the progress of downloading in a system having a function of downloading data to a terminal device.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional terminal systems with a download function, while downloading, a comment indicating that the download is in progress is displayed on the terminal display to inform the operator that the download is in progress. Incidentally, related systems of this type include, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 187357/1983.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

With the above conventional technology, if the amount of downloaded data is large and the time required to download becomes extremely long, it is not possible to tell when the download will be finished.
There was a problem in that it gave the operator a sense of irritation and anxiety.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned operator's dissatisfaction.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above purpose, in a terminal system that downloads data to be used by a terminal device having at least a display device from a host device to the terminal device, information on the total capacity of data to be downloaded is included in a message sent from the host device. The download progress status is displayed on the display device by referring to the total capacity information on the terminal device.

[Effect]

The terminal side uses the total capacity information of the download data received from the host device at the time of starting the download, and each time it receives the download data that is sent in pieces,
The ratio of the amount of data actually transferred to the total amount of downloaded data is calculated, and this ratio is visualized and displayed on the display in real time.

This allows the operator to visually see the progress of the download, so that the operator does not feel irritated or anxious during the download.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention, where 1 indicates a host control device and 2 indicates a terminal device with a display. In the control unit 2l of the terminal device, table data 23 used for controlling the terminal is stored in the disk device 22. When updating table data, first update the table data 1 stored in the disk device 1l in the host controller.
2 and update the data on the terminal side using the download function provided in both devices.

FIG. 2 shows a download procedure when downloading table data, and FIG. 3 shows a process flow for receiving a download message on the terminal side.

First, at the start of download, the upper control device adds total capacity information of download data to a download start message. The terminal that receives this message saves the information as shown in FIG. 3, and displays the comment during downloading on the display in the format shown in FIG. 4.

Next, the higher-level control device sequentially sends the downloaded data to the terminal side. The terminal that received the download data is the third terminal.
As shown in the figure, after writing the data to the disk, calculate the ratio of the 4 received data amounts based on the total amount of download data saved when receiving the download start message and the total amount of data actually received. Display it on the display in the format shown in Figure 4. By performing the above processing every time data is received, the progress of downloading is displayed on the display in real time.

When the download data transfer is completed, the higher-level control device transmits a download completion message.

When this message is received, the terminal erases the comment being downloaded and ends the download process.

According to this embodiment, the download progress status can be visually notified to the operator.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, the progress of downloading is displayed on the display in real time, so even if the amount of downloaded data becomes large and the downloading time becomes long, there is an effect that the operator does not feel irritated or anxious. .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 shows the configuration of the terminal system. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the download procedure. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing download message reception processing. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of displaying the download progress status. 1... Upper control device, 2... Terminal device, 11.
22... Disk device, 12. 23...Table data. Atsushi 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a terminal system in which data to be used by a terminal device having at least a display device is downloaded from a host device to the terminal device, information on the total amount of data to be downloaded is added to a message sent from the host device, and A download progress display method characterized by displaying the download progress on the display device with reference to total capacity information.