JP2000134445A - Communication terminal and program recoding medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To designate a plurality of mail boxes to a plurality of destinations only through one communication setting operation. SOLUTION: A facsimile terminal F being the communication terminal is provide with a storage means 6a that stores one or a plurality of groups in the group unit of a plurality of destinations and a plurality of mail boxes and with a control means 1 that references the storage means 6a when a group is designated to designate sequentially a plurality of mail boxes of a plurality of destinations in the designated group and to make communication.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication terminal device having a function of performing communication by designating a destination mailbox, and a program recording medium readable by this type of communication terminal device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, some facsimile apparatuses, which are one type of communication terminal apparatuses, have a subaddress function. This sub-address function can transmit a sub-address signal, specify a destination mailbox, store transmitted data in a specified box, or receive data stored in a specified box. Function.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a communication procedure when the sub-address function is executed. FIG. 6A shows the case where the data transmitted by the calling party is stored in the mailbox of the called party, and FIG. 6B shows the case where the calling party receives the data stored in the mailbox of the called party (polling). Receiving). When data is transmitted from the calling side in FIG. 6A, the called side detects CNG (calling tone), and
ED (Called Station Identification Signal), followed by NSF (Non-standard Function Signal), CSI (Calling Terminal Identification Signal), DIS
(Digital identification signal). Then, PWD (password (transmission) signal), S
UB (sub address signal), TSI (transmission terminal identification signal), and DCS (digital command signal) are transmitted.

At this time, when the calling side detects the setting of the sub address capability and the password capability from within the DIS,
As a response, a password (PWD) and a subaddress (SUB) are sent out, and a mailbox on the called side is designated. The sub-address is set in advance for each mailbox on a one-to-one basis, is used for accessing (storing, referencing, and retrieving data) each mailbox, and a password is preset for each mailbox. Used to restrict mailbox access.

[0005] That is, a mailbox is designated by a sub-address, but if the password transmitted at the same time does not match a preset password, access to the designated mailbox is prohibited. Note that a plurality of passwords can be set for one mailbox. In such a setting, access to the mailbox is permitted if any of the passwords is transmitted. Further, since it is possible not to set a password, in such a setting, access to the mailbox is permitted regardless of transmission without a password or transmission of any password.

Subsequently, upon receiving the TCF (training check signal), the called side returns a CFR (reception preparation confirmation signal) and receives image data (PIX). The received data is stored in a mailbox specified by the subaddress and the access of which is permitted by the password. Here, after receiving the image data, the MP
The figure shows a case in which S (multi-page signal) is received, MCF (message confirmation signal) is returned, and image data of the next page (second page) is received.

When the called party receives the EOP (procedure end signal) and confirms that all the image data has been received,
The MCF is returned, and the communication is terminated upon receiving the DCN (disconnect command signal). Thereafter, the called side can take out the image data from the mailbox and print out this image on recording paper. On the other hand, in the case of the polling reception of the calling side in FIG. 6B, when the called side detects CNG, it sends out CED, and then sends out DIS or the like. Then, PWD (password (polling) signal), SEP (selection polling signal), CI
G (calling terminal identification signal) and DTC (digital transmission command signal) are transmitted.

At this time, when the calling side detects the setting of the sub address capability and the password capability from within the DIS,
The DTC is similarly set to have both capabilities, sends out a password (PWD) for polling reception and a selection polling signal (SEP), and designates and accesses a mailbox. The called side transmits DCS and TCF, and upon receiving CFR, transmits image data (PIX). This transmission data is specified by the selection polling signal and taken out of the mailbox permitted to be accessed by the password.

[0009] Here, the called side transmits the MPS after transmitting the image data, receives the MCF reply, and transmits the image data of the next page (second page). When transmission of all image data is completed, EOP is transmitted and MC is transmitted.
In response to F, a DCN is sent out to end the communication.

[0010]

As described above, in the conventional communication terminal device, in order to specify the mailbox of the other party, after calling the telephone number of the other party, the sub-address and the password if necessary However, even when specifying another box of the same party, the user must call the same telephone number again and enter the sub address for the other box, which is troublesome. Was.

In the case of facsimile communication, when the same data is confidentially transmitted to another destination or mailbox, the original data must be read many times for each destination or mailbox. . FIG. 7 schematically shows an example of a destination table stored in a conventional communication terminal device. When such a table is stored, a table number (No.) is input by key. If a communication setting operation is performed, a call can be made to the corresponding destination number, a subaddress and a password can be transmitted, and a mailbox can be designated. However, as described above, conventionally, only one mailbox can be designated for one destination, and mailboxes of a plurality of destinations are successively designated by one key input. I couldn't do that.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and has as its object to provide a communication terminal device capable of designating a plurality of destinations and a plurality of mailboxes with only one communication setting operation. And It is another object of the present invention to provide a program recording medium for realizing such a function of the communication terminal device.

[0013]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication terminal device in which a plurality of destinations and a plurality of mailboxes are grouped as one group and one or a plurality of groups are stored. A storage unit; and a control unit that, when a group is designated, refers to the storage unit and sequentially designates and communicates with a plurality of mailboxes of a plurality of destinations in the designated group.

In this communication terminal device, when a plurality of mailboxes of a plurality of destinations are designated, before the communication is started,
All you have to do is specify the group. Here, the destination mailbox may be specified by sending a sub-address or a password or by sending a mailbox number. Further, data to be transmitted may be stored in a specified mailbox, or stored data may be extracted from the specified mailbox.

The storage means may store one or more different mailboxes (numbers) for each of a plurality of destinations in each group, or one or more same mailboxes (numbers). Only the information may be stored. According to a second aspect, the storage means of the first aspect is characterized in that one or a plurality of different mailboxes can be stored for each of a plurality of destinations in each group.

A third aspect of the present invention proposes a program recording medium readable by a communication terminal device. The recording medium has a function for realizing the function of the communication terminal device according to the first or second aspect. Recording the program.
That is, if the communication terminal device reads this recording medium, the storage means of the device can store a plurality of destinations and a plurality of mailboxes in a group unit, and the control means of the device stores the group. When specified, a plurality of mailboxes of a plurality of destinations in the specified group are sequentially specified with reference to the storage means for communication.

[0017]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a communication terminal device according to the present invention. here,
The configuration of the facsimile machine F is shown as an example,
The present invention is not limited to this, and may be any device having a function of designating a mailbox of another communication terminal device,
For example, a personal computer (personal computer) having a data communication function may be used.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a main control unit which constitutes a control means such as a CPU, 2 denotes an auto dial unit for making an automatic call, and 3 denotes network control such as transmission of a dial signal (telephone number) to the communication line L NCU 4 that performs modulation and demodulation of signals for facsimile communication of image data;
5 is an image memory for storing image data of facsimile communication, 6 is a RAM for storing a communication reservation table 6a and the like,
Reference numeral 7 denotes a ROM that stores a processing program in advance, and reference numeral 8 denotes a clock unit.

Reference numeral 9 denotes a display unit composed of a liquid crystal screen, LEDs, etc., 10 an operation unit composed of various operation keys and the like, 11 a reading unit for reading image data of a set original, and 12 a recording paper. And a recording unit 13 for reading a processing program from a recording medium fd such as a floppy disk or a CD-ROM.

The main control unit 1 has facsimile communication control,
It includes a processing circuit for encoding / decoding image data. In addition, the main control unit 1 reads the processing program recorded on the recording medium fd by the external recording medium reading unit 13 separately from the processing program stored in the ROM 7, and thereafter executes the processing according to the instructions of the read program. You can also do it.

The facsimile apparatus F encodes image data read by the reading unit 11 and transmits the encoded image data through the communication line L, while decoding the image data received through the communication line L and prints out the image data from the recording unit 12. In operation, a sub-address (SUB), a selection polling signal (SEP), and a password (PWD) are sent out via the communication line L, and a mailbox of another communication terminal device (such as a facsimile device or a personal computer) is designated. The transmitted data can be stored in the designated box, or the stored data can be received from the designated box (see FIG. 6).

If the sub-address function is used, a bulletin board function of using a mailbox as a bulletin board, a confidential function of permitting only a person who has input a password to retrieve data in the mailbox, and a relay transmission to another communication terminal device For example, a relay function for temporarily storing data in the server can be realized.
The present invention proposes a communication terminal device capable of accessing each of a plurality of mailboxes of a plurality of destinations. Therefore, the RAM 6 stores a plurality of destinations and a plurality of mailboxes in a group unit. A communication reservation table 6a is provided as storage means for storing one or a plurality of groups.

According to the communication reservation table 6a, each group includes, for each of a plurality of destinations, for each user,
Different mailboxes may be stored, or only the same mailbox of each destination may be stored. For example, in the former case, box numbers 1 and 2 can be specified for destination 1 and box numbers 3 and 4 and 5 can be specified for destination 2. In the latter case, box numbers can be specified for destination 1 and destination 2 You can specify 1 and 2.

When a group of the communication reservation table 6a is designated by an operation of the operation unit 10 or the like, the main control unit 1 refers to the communication reservation table 6a and sets a plurality of destinations in the designated group. Specify multiple mailboxes in order and communicate. Thus, when specifying a plurality of mailboxes of a plurality of destinations, it is only necessary to specify the group before starting communication.

More specifically, if a communication reservation number (group number) is input by the operation unit 10, the communication reservation number stored in the communication reservation table 6a is searched, and registered correspondingly. Call the called party number and access the mailbox specified by the subaddress and password. When designating a plurality of mailboxes of the same destination, after calling the telephone number of the destination by the NCU 2, a plurality of sub-addresses and passwords are transmitted to access the mailboxes of the destination in order. That is, a single call accesses a plurality of destination mailboxes.

If the processing can be simplified in this manner, when polling reception is sequentially performed from a plurality of mailboxes of a destination or when data stored in advance is sequentially transmitted to a plurality of mailboxes of a destination, There is no need to wait for the end of communication to access the next mailbox. FIG. 2 schematically shows the configuration of the communication reservation table 6a. Here, a command number (N
o. ) Is assigned, and when the registered communication start time comes, one or more destination numbers in the group are automatically called in order and the transmission of the subaddress and the password is repeated. ing.

As shown, the communication reservation table 6a includes, for each group, a plurality of destinations.
One or more different mailboxes can be stored. The sub-address and the password are constituted by a predetermined number of digits (for example, 20 digits) or less than the predetermined number of digits, but are partially omitted in the figure.

Next, a communication procedure when a communication reservation is made as described above will be described with reference to FIG. In addition,
In FIG. 3, (a) to (m) are reference numerals assigned to the respective procedure signals. Here, a case is shown in which the same image data is stored in a plurality of mailboxes of the same destination, and as shown in (d) in the figure, at the beginning of the communication, the sub-address and Sending out password. As a result, the same transmission data ((g) PIX, (j) PIX) can be stored in each of a plurality of mailboxes of the other party (called side).

When the image data to be stored is changed by changing the mailbox, the EOM
After sending the (message end signal) to return the facsimile communication procedure to the end of the call setting procedure (start of phase B), the operation of (c) may be resumed. When accessing the mailbox of another destination, a call is made to the destination and the operations (a) to (m) are repeated.

Next, the basic operation of the facsimile machine F is shown in a flowchart. FIG. 4 shows a communication reservation table 6a.
2 (see FIG. 2).
2). First, a command number is assigned to a group to be registered (101), a destination number is input corresponding to a record number (103), and one or more subaddresses and passwords are input to specify a mailbox. (104-106). When all the mailboxes of the destination are specified, the input destination number, subaddress, and password are stored in the record number area of the command number (107). If there is another destination, registration of the destination number or the like for the next record number area is repeated (108 to 110). When the registration of the destination and the mailbox for the command number is completed, the communication start time is input by keying.
a (111), and when the original is read by the reading unit 11, the image data is stored in the image memory 5 (1).
12).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the communication processing after the registration processing to the communication reservation table 6a (20).
1-210). When the clock of the clock unit 8 reaches the communication start time registered corresponding to any command number (201), the main control unit 1 sets the command number (202), and sets the record number. In order, auto dial part 2
Dials a call to the other party (204), one or more subaddresses (SUB), and a password (PWD)
Is transmitted (205, 206).

When the specification of all the mailboxes of the destination is completed, the image data stored in the image memory 5 is transmitted (207), and when the transmission is completed, the line connection is cut off (208). Then, if the next record number is registered, from the dial call to another destination (204)
To) are repeated (209, 210). In this way, in the facsimile apparatus F, a plurality of destinations and a plurality of mailboxes can be accessed for one communication setting operation.

Although FIGS. 4 and 5 show the case where the time-designated communication is performed, the present invention is not limited to this, and the operation unit 10 operates with the communication reservation table 6a registered in advance. Communication may be started when a command number is input. Also, the case where transmission data is stored in the destination mailbox has been described above, but the present invention is not limited to this.
Polling reception (see FIG. 6B) may be performed by designating a plurality of destination mailboxes and extracting stored data from each box. In this case, instead of transmitting the image data (107 in FIG. 5), a process of sequentially storing the received image data in the image memory 5 is performed.

Next, the facsimile apparatus F described above
Recording medium f on which a program for performing the function of
d will be described. Facsimile machine F shown in FIG.
However, even if the function is not provided, by reading the recording medium fd in which the program of the function is recorded from the external recording medium reading unit 13, the function can be performed thereafter. That is, the recording medium fd
Is stored in a rewritable nonvolatile memory such as a flash memory, and the main control unit 1
The processing is performed according to the stored program.

The main control unit 1 stores one or a plurality of groups in the RAM 6 as a communication reservation table 6a (see FIG. 2) with a plurality of destinations and a plurality of mailboxes as one group unit. In each group, one or a plurality of different mailboxes can be stored for each of the plurality of destinations. In this state, when a group (command number) of the communication reservation table 6a is designated, the main control unit 1 refers to the communication reservation table 6a and
Communication is performed by sequentially specifying a plurality of mailboxes of a plurality of destinations in a specified group.

As described above, even by reading the program storage medium fd of the present invention, a personal computer or the like having a communication function may be provided with a communication function capable of easily designating a plurality of destinations and a plurality of mailboxes. it can.

[0037]

As can be understood from the above description, in the communication terminal device according to claim 1 or 2 of the present invention, a group consisting of a plurality of destinations and a plurality of mailboxes can be specified. For example, communication is performed by sequentially designating a plurality of mailboxes of a plurality of destinations in the group.
Therefore, when designating a plurality of mailboxes of a plurality of destinations, it is only necessary to perform a single communication setting operation of designating the group before starting communication. To specify multiple mailboxes, call the same telephone number many times.To send image data to multiple destinations, copy original data multiple times for each destination or mailbox. No need to read.

In particular, in claim 2, different mailboxes can be stored for each of a plurality of destinations in each group, so that mailboxes can be freely designated according to the destinations. Claim 3 provides the program recording medium with:
In the first communication setting operation, a program for realizing a function of sequentially designating and communicating with a plurality of mailboxes of a plurality of destinations is recorded. , The above functions can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a communication terminal device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of a communication reservation table.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a communication procedure of the communication terminal device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an operation of the communication terminal device in FIG. 1 (registration processing).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the operation of the communication terminal device in FIG. 1 (communication processing).

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a basic communication procedure of a conventional communication terminal device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of a destination table of a conventional communication terminal device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 F Communication terminal device (facsimile device) 1 Main control unit 5 Image memory 6 RAM 6a Communication reservation table 7 ROM 10 Operation unit 13 External recording medium reading unit fd Program recording medium

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A communication terminal device having a function of performing communication by designating a destination mailbox, wherein a plurality of destinations and a plurality of mailboxes are grouped into one group.
Or storage means for storing a plurality of groups, and control means for, when a group is designated, referring to the storage means and sequentially designating and communicating with a plurality of mailboxes of a plurality of destinations in the designated group. A communication terminal device comprising: 2. The storage means includes:
The communication terminal device according to claim 1, wherein one or a plurality of different mailboxes can be stored for each of the plurality of destinations. 3. A program recording medium readable by a communication terminal device, in which a program for realizing the function of the communication terminal device according to claim 1 or 2 is recorded.