JP2541885Y2 - Ordering processing equipment - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The invention relates to a facsimile ordering processing device for requesting a service to a facsimile communication network, and more particularly to simplification of a service request.

[Prior Art] For example, a facsimile communication network has been constructed in which a G3 facsimile and a communication network are regarded as an integrated system, a digital line and a storage conversion method are adopted, and communication charges are reduced and various services are provided by a storage function.

In this facsimile communication network, there are various functions other than the normal transmission function of receiving and storing image information communication data from a transmission facsimile, and immediately transmitting the stored communication data to a destination facsimile designated by a caller, for example, a confidential transmission / reception, a post office box. Transmission, bulletin board transmission, etc. Then, in normal transmission using a facsimile communication network, even if a destination facsimile is in use or a communication error occurs, the facsimile communication network cannot recall or deliver to the destination. Communication data has an advantage that it can be returned to a transmission facsimile with a destination number or the like, and the use value of a storage-and-forward facsimile communication network has recently been increasing.

In a communication network involving storage such as a facsimile communication network, since a message is transferred without directly exchanging a caller and a callee, ordering management including prevention of loss of the message is important.

Conventionally, as a method of requesting a service from a facsimile communication network using a G3 facsimile, a push button tone (hereinafter, referred to as a push button tone) input by a facsimile push button dial is used.
There are two types of ordering: a PB tone) and an optical mark reader (OMR) that reads data on OMR paper by optical means.

Ordering by PB tone uses a variety of services such as confidential transmission and post office box transmission of facsimile communication networks, so a caller identification number that identifies the caller, a service code that represents the type of various services, and an identification number of the other party Alternatively, the instruction of the destination identification number indicating the telephone number of the destination facsimile is performed by the PB tone. In addition, depending on the service, there are various ordering data, for example, the time for time-designated communication, and a post-office box number for post-office box transmission.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] The ordering by OMR described above does not have any particular problem because it reads recorded data and requests a service.
In ordering using PB tones that are normally used, it is necessary to indicate the caller identification number, service code, and destination identification number using dial numbers 0 to 9 and # and * symbols even in ordinary communication. The disadvantage was that it became complicated.

Also, callers have difficulty remembering these complex codes,
Each time a facsimile service request is made, various codes must be checked, and the service request is not easy.

Further, there is a disadvantage that the probability of erroneous dialing increases as the number of digits of the dial number increases.

The present invention has been made to solve such a disadvantage, and has as its object to provide an ordering processing device that can perform ordering only with the destination identification number when performing normal transmission.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides a facsimile communication network having a plurality of processor boards for controlling a facsimile protocol and performing a store-and-forward service using a large-capacity disk. By transferring the service number and the destination identification number, the ordering processing device for requesting the store-and-forward service can input the caller identification number, the service number, and the destination identification number when performing a service request operation. When only the push button dial and the destination identification number are input from the push button dial, the communication data is received and stored, and the stored communication data is immediately transmitted to the destination specified by the destination identification number. If the service is in the normal transmission mode,
When the requested service is determined to be the service in the normal transmission mode by the mode determining means for determining the service to be requested and the mode determining means, the facsimile information field (FIF) of the facsimile transmission terminal identification signal (TSI) is set in the facsimile information field (FIF). And a transfer means for transferring the indicated information as a caller identification number to the facsimile communication network.

[Operation] Therefore, when requesting the normal transmission mode, the user can request a service from the facsimile communication network without inputting the caller identification number and the service code, and the user's operation is very simple. It will be.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the facsimile 1 includes an operation unit 2 having a push button dial and a display unit, a mode determination unit 3 and a transfer unit 4 as an ordering processing device for requesting a service from a facsimile communication network.

The mode discriminating means 3 transmits the data using the additional service of the facsimile communication network such as confidential transmission, post-office box transmission, and time-specified transmission (hereinafter referred to as confidential transmission, post-office transmission, and time-specified transmission). , Conversational transmission). When the mode determination means 3 determines that the transmission mode is the normal transmission mode, the transfer means 4 replaces the telephone number of the facsimile 1 with a facsimile transmission terminal identification signal.
The information indicated in the facsimile information field FIF of the TSI is sent to the exchange 5 as a caller identification number.

In the case of ordinary transmission, this caller identification number is for returning a notification of completion or non-delivery of communication data. On the other hand, information for identifying a transmitting station is indicated in the FIF of the TSI, and a telephone number of a normal facsimile is registered. Therefore, in the normal transmission mode, the FSI of the TSI is used, and in place of the caller identification number, the exchange 5 confirms that the transmission is normal transmission with the caller.
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Next, the operation of the facsimile 1 ordering processing apparatus configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

When requesting a service from the facsimile 1 to the facsimile communication network, first, one push button dial of the operation means 2 is operated to input one piece of PB tone data (step S).
1). In the interactive transmission mode in which the facsimile communication network requests an additional service such as confidential transmission, the dial "#" of the push button dial is used as the input delimiter which is the delimiter of the PB tone data, and the dial # is used in the mode. Ordering is performed using the format shown in FIG. 3 by using it as a judgment delimiter.

That is, following the input of the mode determination delimiter “#”, the caller code is input using the caller identification number 6 and the delimiter “#”. Thereafter, the required service is designated by the service code 7, the delimiter "#" is input, and then the destination identification number 8 and the delimiter "#" are input.

Then, when one piece of PB tone data is input from the operating means 2, the mode determining means 3 determines whether or not the input PB tone data is a mode determining delimiter "#" (step S2). The mode discriminating means 3 calculates the first PB
When the tone data is the mode determination delimiter “#”, the transmission mode is determined to be the conversational transmission mode, and a conversational transmission mode signal is sent to the transfer unit 4. Upon receiving this signal, the transfer means 4 shifts to conversational transmission processing, and successively sends out the input caller identification number 6 and the like to the exchange 5 (step S3). The facsimile communication network receiving the caller identification number 6 and the like enters the reception mode (step S4).

On the other hand, when the PB tone data first input from the operation unit 2 is not the mode determination delimiter “#”, the mode determination unit 3 determines that the transmission mode is the normal transmission mode, and sends a normal transmission mode signal to the transfer unit 4. Upon receiving the normal transmission mode signal, the transfer means 4 shifts the processing to the normal transmission processing (step S5). Then, the input data is used as the telephone number of the destination facsimile. Therefore, the ordering in the normal transmission mode does not require the input of the caller identification number 6 and the service code 7 as in the conversational transmission mode, but immediately inputs the destination telephone number similarly to a normal facsimile.

If you use a private branch exchange to send communication data when entering the other party's phone number, you must enter a delimiter "#" after the other party's phone number because the number of digits in the other party's phone number is undefined. There is. Therefore, when the other party's telephone number is inputted by the PB tone data, the data is temporarily stored in the buffer of the transfer means 4 (step S7). When the delimiter "#" is input, it is determined that the private branch exchange is used (step S8), and the information in the TSI FIF is sent to the exchange 5 as a substitute for the caller identification number (step S8).
9).

When the delimiter “#” is not input, it is determined that the public line is used. When using a public line, since the area code is usually 5 digits or less, it is necessary to wait for the input destination telephone number data to reach 5 digits or more (step S1).
0). When the input data reaches five or more digits, the number of significant digits of the destination telephone number is extracted from the table of the area code and the number of significant digits (step S11). The input data is set as the destination telephone number (step S12). Then, as in the case of using the private branch exchange, the information in the FIF of the TSI is sent to the exchange 5 instead of the caller identification number (step S9), and the facsimile communication network is set to the reception mode (step S4).

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, a plurality of processor boards for controlling a facsimile protocol are provided,
An ordering processing device for requesting the storage and switching service by transferring a caller identification number, a service number, and a destination identification number to a facsimile communication network that performs the storage and switching service using a large-capacity disk. When performing a request operation, a push button dial for inputting a caller identification number, a service number, and a destination identification number, and communication data when only the destination identification number is input from the push button dial. Mode discriminating means for judging a requested service as a service in a normal transmission mode for receiving and accumulating and immediately transmitting the accumulated communication data to a destination designated by the above-mentioned destination identification number; and If it is determined that the requested service is a service in the normal transmission mode, Kushimiri transmission terminal identification signal (TS
A transfer means for transferring the information indicated in the facsimile information field (FIF) of (I) as the caller identification number to the facsimile communication network is provided. The service can be requested to the facsimile communication network without the operation of inputting the service code and the service code, and the effect that the operation of the user becomes very simple is obtained.

Further, since the number of input digits of the number necessary for the user to perform the operation input is reduced, the effect of suppressing occurrence of erroneous input is also obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the above embodiment, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an ordering format in a conversational transmission mode. 1... Facsimile, 2... Operating means, 3... Mode discriminating means, 4.

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A facsimile communication network having a plurality of processor boards for controlling a facsimile protocol and providing a storage and switching service using a large-capacity disk is provided with a caller identification number, a service number, and a destination identification number. The push button dial for inputting a caller identification number, a service number, and a destination identification number when requesting a service in the ordering processing device for requesting the store-and-forward service by transferring, and the push button When only the destination identification number is input from a dial, the service is a normal transmission mode service that receives and stores communication data and immediately transmits the stored communication data to the destination specified by the destination identification number. A mode determining means for determining a service to be requested; and When the requested service is determined to be a service in the normal transmission mode, the information indicated in the facsimile information field (FIF) of the facsimile transmission terminal identification signal (TSI) is transmitted to the facsimile communication network as a caller identification number. An ordering processing device comprising a transfer means for transferring.