JPH09101927A - Information processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the function efficiency of a system at low cost by storing link information required for accessing a file, in which received data are stored, in the other storage means. SOLUTION: A FAX server 202 is provided with a main body 202a of server, memory 202b for accessing received image data, and received data filing memory (received data storage means) 202c for storing the received image data in a single filing format so as to access them from the side of terminal equipment. The memories 202b for access at the FAX server 202 are plural memories (link information storage means) for user to be allocated for each user of terminal equipment 205 and these memories are respectively connected and constituted for each piece of terminal equipment 205. Besides, this memory 202b for access stores the link information required for accessing the file stored in the memory 202c for filing.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to an IEEE (Instit
The present invention relates to a composite information processing system having a plurality of information processing terminals connectable by a LAN (Local Area Network) or the like of the ute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standard and a facsimile machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, IEEE standard LAN and ANSI
SC of (Americn National Standards Institute) standard
In an information processing system having an information processing terminal (hereinafter, referred to as “terminal device”) connectable by a parallel I / F of SI, IEEE P1284 standard, etc., and a facsimile device, data received by the facsimile device is transmitted. In the case of notifying a plurality of terminal device users, the received data is manually or automatically transferred to a memory for storing received documents prepared for each user, and each user is referred to.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, the received data is transferred to the memory for storing the received document prepared for each user. Therefore, (1) the same received data must be duplicated for the receiving users. I have to. (2) By using a plurality of received data of the same content in the system, the memory usage efficiency is reduced. However, it was inconvenient for system operation.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide an information processing system capable of improving the functional efficiency of the system at a low cost. To do.

[0005]

In order to solve the above problems, an information processing system according to the present invention has a facsimile device for receiving data transmitted via a communication network, and a plurality of terminal devices. In an information processing system that transfers the received data to at least one terminal device that requires the received data among the plurality of terminal devices, the received data is a single file accessible from the plurality of terminal devices. Receiving data storage means for storing,
A plurality of link information storage means, each of which is connected to each of the plurality of terminal devices, stores link information necessary for accessing the stored file; and the at least one of the at least one of the fact that the facsimile device has received the data. It has a notifying means for notifying the terminal device together with the link information, and a reading means for accessing the file based on the notified link information and reading the received data into the at least one terminal device. And

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an outline of an information processing system according to the present invention, showing a connection form between respective devices by a LAN and handling of received data (hereinafter, also referred to as "received image data"). ing.

As shown in the figure, this system is connected to a communication line (PSTN) 116 as a communication network, and also receives a data transmitted via the communication line 116 and a facsimile apparatus 201, and this facsimile device 201. A FAX server 202 connected to the device 201 and a LAN 119, and a plurality of terminal devices 205 connected to the FAX server 202 via the LAN 119.
And is configured.

Here, the FAX server 202 controls the facsimile transmission request and the print request from the terminal device 205, the storage management of the received document in the facsimile device 201, the distribution to each terminal device 205, and the like. .

Further, the FAX server 202 plays a role of uploading and managing image data received by the facsimile apparatus 201 side, and performing notification of reception to the terminal device 205 and distribution of received data. That is, F
The AX server 202 has a function as a notifying means for notifying that at least one terminal device 205 that needs the received data that the facsimile device 201 has received the data together with link information to be described later. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the FAX server 202 is installed with application software and driver software for controlling remote operations and remote operation requests from the outside.

Further, the FAX server 202 includes a server main body 202a and a memory 2 for accessing the received image data.
02b and a reception data file memory (reception data storage means) 202c for storing the reception image data in a single file format accessible from the terminal device 205 side.

The access memory 202b of the FAX server 202 is a plurality of user memories (link information storage means) assigned to each user of the terminal device 205, and is connected to each terminal device 205. (In FIG. 1, the first to third user memories are shown). The access memory 202b also stores link information required to access the file stored in the file memory 202c. The link information includes path information of the received data file (existing location and file name information).

The terminal device 205 is composed of a plurality of devices. In this embodiment, the terminal device 205 is composed of a terminal device 204 for the first user and a terminal device 203 for the second user. .

In addition, the terminal device 205 uses the FAX server 202 from the device to which each user has logged in.
It is designed to provide an environment in which a transmission request and a print request can be transmitted, and a received data file can be detected from the link information written in the user memory and the received data can be read. That is, the terminal device 2
Reference numeral 05 denotes a function as a reading unit that accesses the reception data file stored in the file memory 202c based on the notified link information and reads the reception data into at least one terminal device 205 that requires the reception data. have.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the outline of the facsimile apparatus 201.

As shown in FIG. 2, the facsimile machine 20
Each block of No. 1 is connected by a system bus 117, and has a CPU 101, a ROM 102, and a RAM.
103, an image memory 104, an operation unit 105, a resolution conversion processing unit 106, an image processing control unit 108 connected to the reading control unit 107, and an NCU (network control unit) 110.
A communication control unit 109, a communication code decoding process unit 111, a read / record code decoding process unit 112,
I / F code decoding processing unit 113 and recording control unit 114
And an I / F control unit 115.

The CPU 101 controls the system and controls the facsimile apparatus 2 via the system bus 117.
01 controls the whole.

The ROM 102 includes various control programs for the CPU 101 and an operating system (OS).
It stores programs and the like. In the present embodiment, each control program stored in the ROM 102 operates under the control of the OS stored in the ROM 102,
As a result, software control such as scheduling and task switching is performed.

The RAM 103 is composed of SRAM and the like,
This is for storing program control variables and the like. The RAM 103 also stores setting values registered by the operator, device management data, various work buffers, and the like.

The image memory 104 is composed of a DRAM or the like and is for storing image data. The image data stored in the image memory 104 is decoded by the communication code decoding processing unit 111, and the resolution conversion processing unit 106 performs milli-inch resolution conversion, enlargement / reduction processing, and the like. There is.

The communication code decoding processing unit 111 decodes the image whose resolution has been converted by the resolution conversion processing unit 106 in accordance with the capability of the transmission destination so as to be used for transmission control. Is.

The operation unit 105 includes various keys, LEDs, and LC.
D is used to perform various input operations by the operator, display the operation status of the facsimile apparatus 201, and the like.

The reading control unit 107 is composed of a CS image sensor, a document feeding mechanism, and the like. With this, the document is optically read by the CS image sensor, converted into electrical image data, and an image is read. Processing control unit 10
8 various kinds of image processing such as binarization processing and halftone processing are performed to output high definition image data.
The image data converted here is encoded according to a predetermined encoding method via the read / write encoding / decoding control unit 112 and stored in the image memory 104.

The recording control unit 114 is composed of a page printer, a recording image processing control unit and the like. As a result, in the recording control unit 114, the image data to be recorded is decoded by the read / write code decoding control unit 112, and various kinds of image processing such as smoothing processing and recording density correction processing are performed by the recording image processing control unit to enhance the image quality. It is designed to be converted into fine image data and output to a page printer.

The communication control unit 109 is composed of a MODEM (modulation / demodulation device) or the like, and controls modulation / demodulation of a transmission / reception signal of the facsimile apparatus 201.

The NCU 110 is an analog communication line 11
6, a selection signal (dial pulse or tone dialer) is transmitted, a calling signal is detected, and line control such as automatic incoming call control is performed.

The I / F control unit 115 performs interface control with various terminal devices connected to the outside.
Here, interface control with the FAX server 202 is performed. In this embodiment, this corresponds to a parallel interface such as a bidirectional Centronics interface.

Next, the operation of this system having the above configuration will be described focusing on the processing operation of the received image data.

3 and 4 are flow charts showing the processing operation of the received image data in this system. However, FIG. 3 focuses on the processing operations performed by the facsimile apparatus 201 and the FAX server 202.
Shows processing performed for each user on the terminal device 205 side.

In FIG. 3, first, the facsimile machine 2
01 stores the received image data received from the communication line 116 through the NCU 110 and the communication control unit 109 in the image memory 104 (S301). After the reception, the received image data is uploaded from the image memory 104 to the FAX server 202 via the I / F control unit 115 and is centrally managed in the FAX server 202 (S302).

Next, the FAX server 202 refers to the cover page of the received image data, etc.
It is called a "receiving user". ) Is determined (S303). In addition, here, for simplification of description, it is assumed that the receiving users determined here are only two users, that is, the first user and the second user. In addition, the first user is the terminal device 204,
It is assumed that the second user is using the terminal device 203.

After the determination, the FAX server 202 writes the link information including the path information of the received data file in the user memory (S304). After writing, first
And the terminal devices 204, 20 used by the second user
A message of reception notification is sent to 3 with the link information (S305).

Up to this point, the procedure from the generation of the received image data to the notification to the receiving user is carried out, and the facsimile apparatus 201 and the FAX server 202 execute the above-mentioned processing each time reception is performed.

Next, the operation on the side of the terminal device 205 will be mainly described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 4, first, the first and second users, after receiving the reception notification (S306), detect the reception data file from the link information registered in the user memory and use the reception data respectively. The image is read into the terminal device 204 or 203 which is operating and the image is referred to (S3
07). After the reference, the first and second users can
The received image data is deleted from the user memory. That is,
The FAX server 202 deletes the link information of the received data file to be deleted from the user memory (S308).

At this time, the FAX server 202 confirms the existence of another user's memory in which the link information to the received data file is registered (S309), and only when it does not exist, that is, the received data file is linked. If there is no remaining user memory, the received data file itself is deleted (S310).

According to the present embodiment described above, the data received by the facsimile apparatus 201 is transferred to the plurality of terminal devices 205.
When delivering to the receiving user, the entity of the received data is stored as one file in the shared file memory 202c accessible from the terminal device 205 side of the receiving user. Also, link information to the received data file is given to each receiving user. As a result, it becomes possible to distribute the received data to each terminal device 205 while operating the integrated management of the received data. Therefore, it is not necessary to duplicate and manage the same received data file for the receiving users, and the efficiency of memory usage is improved, leading to an improvement in the function of the entire system.

(Other Embodiments) The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications can be made.

For example, although the received data is managed in the FAX server 202 in the above description, the same effect can be obtained even when the received data is managed in another shared memory on the LAN 119 where the user can access the data.

In the above, the path information of the received data file is handled as the link information to the received data file, but the location of the received data file, such as the memory address where the received data file is stored, is determined. The same effect can be obtained even when other information that can be discriminated is used.

Further, in the above, an example in which an area other than each user's memory is used as the storage location of the received data file has been described. The same effect can be obtained even if a means for writing the link information to that is used.

Further, in the above, the facsimile apparatus 201
The case where a device other than the LAN 119 is used as the I / F between the terminal device 205 and the terminal device 205 has been described.
The same effect can be obtained even when connected at 19.

[0043]

As described above, according to the present invention, the received data is stored as a single file that can be accessed from the terminal device side, and the link information required to access the stored file is separated. Since it is possible to access the file based on the link information and read the received data into the terminal device,
It is not necessary to duplicate and manage the same received data file for each receiving user, and it is possible to provide an information processing system that is low in cost and capable of improving the functional efficiency of the system.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an outline of an information processing system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration block diagram of a facsimile device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing of received image data.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing of received image data.

[Explanation of symbols]

 116 Communication line 119 LAN 201 Facsimile apparatus 202 FAX server 202b Access memory 202c File memory 205 Terminal device

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile device for receiving data transmitted via a communication network, and a plurality of terminal devices, wherein the received data is at least one of the plurality of terminal devices that requires the received data. In an information processing system for transferring to one terminal device, the received data storage means for storing the received data as a single file accessible from the plurality of terminal devices, respectively connected to each of the plurality of terminal devices, A plurality of link information storage means for storing link information necessary to access the stored file; and a notification means for notifying the at least one terminal device that the facsimile device has received the data together with the link information. , Accessing the file based on the notified link information, and receiving the received data from the at least one of the files. The information processing system being characterized in that comprising a reading means, the reading on the terminal device. 2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein only the link information stored in the link information storage means can be deleted from the side of the plurality of terminal devices. 3. The file stored in the received data storage means is deleted when all of the link information stored in the plurality of link information storage means is deleted. Information processing system described.