JP2581956B2 - Second destination registration processing method for facsimile machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Summary] Regarding a second destination registration processing method for registering a telephone number of a facsimile apparatus of a second destination in a calling facsimile apparatus, registration of a telephone number of a facsimile apparatus of a second destination The called facsimile device has the priority of the telephone number of one or more facsimile devices to be received on behalf of the local station together with its own telephone number. The registered facsimile apparatus of the other station is notified to the calling facsimile apparatus together with the telephone number of the own station in accordance with the called terminal identification signal. The calling facsimile machine
The telephone number of the facsimile apparatus of the other station notified according to the called terminal identification signal is registered as the telephone number of the facsimile apparatus of the second destination in the order of priority.

[Industrial applications]

The present invention relates to a second destination registration processing method of a facsimile apparatus for registering a telephone number of a second destination facsimile apparatus in a calling facsimile apparatus.

When the called facsimile machine serving as a receiver is busy, the document information is sent to a second facsimile machine having some relationship with the called facsimile machine, for example, another facsimile machine on the same floor. Sending has been done. It is desirable that such a transmission process to the facsimile apparatus of the second destination can be realized accurately without any trouble of the user.

[Conventional technology]

In order to be able to transmit the document information to the second facsimile machine, register the telephone number of the second facsimile machine together with the telephone number of the called facsimile machine in the calling facsimile machine as the transmitter. It is necessary to keep.

Conventionally, such registration processing of the telephone number of the second destination,
The user inquires the other party of the telephone number of the second destination, associates the telephone number obtained by this inquiry with the telephone number of the called facsimile apparatus, and registers the key number in the calling facsimile apparatus. Was realized in that way.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

However, in such a conventional technique, there is a problem that the burden on the user increases because it is necessary to inquire the other party for the telephone number of the second destination. In addition, since the calling user key-in the second destination telephone number, there is a high possibility that a mistake will occur in key-in of the second destination telephone number. There was also the disadvantage that it would be sent to an unacceptable facsimile machine.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and is directed to a facsimile apparatus capable of automatically registering a telephone number of a second destination without performing an operation of a calling user. It is intended to provide a two-destination registration processing method.

[Means for solving the problem]

 FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention.

In the figure, reference numeral 10 denotes a called facsimile machine, and 11 denotes a telephone number storage means provided in the called facsimile apparatus 10, which is a local telephone number storage area 11b for storing the telephone number of the local station, and is replaced with the local station. And an associated other station telephone number storage area 11c for storing the telephone numbers of one or more associated facsimile apparatuses to be received in priority order. 12 is a CSI signal generating means provided in the called facsimile apparatus 10. Which generates a called terminal identification signal composed of the telephone number of the local telephone number storage area 11b and the telephone number of the related other telephone number storage area 11c, and 13 is a CSI provided in the called facsimile machine 10. A signal transmitting means for transmitting the called terminal identification signal generated by the CSI signal generating means 12 to the calling facsimile apparatus, and 20 a related facsimile which executes reception processing in place of the called facsimile apparatus 10. Reference numeral 21b denotes a local telephone number storage area of the related facsimile machine 20 for storing the telephone number of the related facsimile machine 20; The calling telephone number storage area 31a for storing the telephone number of the call target, the own telephone number storage area 31b for storing the telephone number of the own station, and the second destination telephone for storing the telephone number of the second destination With number storage area 31d, 3
Reference numeral 2 denotes a CSI signal analyzing unit included in the calling side facsimile device 30 for analyzing a called terminal identification signal transmitted from the CSI signal transmitting unit 13; The destination registering means registers the telephone numbers of the related facsimile devices 20 obtained by the CSI signal analyzing means 32 in the second destination telephone number storage area 31d in order of priority.

[Action]

In the present invention, the related other station telephone number storage area 11c of the called facsimile apparatus 10 stores the telephone numbers of the related facsimile apparatuses 20 in order of priority, and the CSI signal generating means 12 transmits the stored related facsimile apparatus 20. A called terminal identification signal is generated by pairing the telephone number of the
The signal transmitting means 13 performs processing to transmit the generated called terminal identification signal to the calling facsimile machine 30. Then, the CSI signal analyzing means 32 of the calling facsimile machine 30
Analyzes the transmitted called terminal identification signal and extracts the telephone number of the associated facsimile apparatus 20, and the second destination registration means 33 sorts the extracted telephone numbers of the associated facsimile apparatus 20 in the order of priority. Processing is performed so as to be stored in the second destination telephone number storage area 31d.

Thus, according to the present invention, the telephone number of the second destination is automatically registered in the calling facsimile machine 30. Therefore, the trouble of the user of the calling-side facsimile machine 30 is not required.

〔Example〕

 Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to examples.

FIG. 2 shows a hardware configuration diagram for realizing the second destination registration processing method of the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention. As shown in this figure, a facsimile apparatus for realizing the present invention also includes a line interface unit 1, a modem unit 2, a data compression / decompression unit 3, an operation unit 4, a memory unit 5, and a control unit, similarly to a conventional facsimile device. Part 6
Will be composed of Note that, in this figure, a reading section, a recording section, a code decoding section, and the like, which are not directly related to the present invention, are omitted.

Next, the memory contents of the memory unit 5 of the called facsimile machine 10 will be described with reference to FIG. In the present invention, as in the prior art, a calling telephone number storage area 11a for storing the telephone number of the call destination when the user becomes the calling facsimile apparatus 30 is provided in the memory unit 5, as in the prior art. Own telephone number storage area 11b for storing telephone numbers, and newly storing telephone numbers of one or more second destination facsimile apparatuses to be received in place of the own station in order of priority. It is configured to have a related other station telephone number storage area 11c. The telephone number of the second destination stored in the related other station telephone number storage area 11c can be realized such that the user of the called facsimile machine 10 key-in from the operation unit 4 in order of priority. become. That is, in the present invention, the calling facsimile machine
The telephone number of the second destination required by the user on the 30 side is constructed in the memory unit 5 of the called facsimile machine 10.

In the present invention, the telephone number of the second destination constructed in the called facsimile machine 10 is notified to the calling facsimile machine 30 by a CSI signal (called terminal identification signal) in the CCITT transmission procedure. Thus, the telephone number information of the second destination is automatically registered in the calling-side facsimile machine 30. As shown in FIG. 4, the CSI signal is a CED signal indicating that the called facsimile machine 10 as the receiver called from the calling facsimile machine 30 as the transmitter can perform automatic reception. Is transmitted to the calling-side facsimile machine 30. In the prior art, this CSI
The signal notifies the calling-side facsimile machine 30 of the telephone number of the own station.

In the method of notifying the telephone number of the second destination by the CSI signal, for example, a flag indicating whether the notification of the second destination is provided at the head of the CSI signal is provided, and then the telephone number of the own station and the priority order are set. This can be realized by a frame configuration in which the telephone number of the second destination is continued.

Next, the registration process of the telephone number of the second destination executed by the calling facsimile machine 30 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 5 executed by the calling facsimile machine 30.

The control unit 6 of the calling-side facsimile machine 30 executes step 1
After confirming that the CSI signal has returned in step 2, it is checked in the following step 2 whether or not there is a notification of the telephone number of the second destination from the flag of the CSI signal. If it is determined that there is no notification of the second destination, the process proceeds to step 3 where the telephone number of the called facsimile machine 10 is read, and in step 4 it is determined that there is no second destination. Register in the memory unit 5. On the other hand, if it is determined in step 2 that there is a notification of the second destination, the process proceeds to step 5 where the telephone number of the called facsimile machine 10 is read, and in step 6 the transmission is continued. The incoming phone numbers of the second destinations are read in order. Then, when it is confirmed in step 7 that the transmitted telephone number of the second destination is gone, in step 8 the telephone numbers of the read second destination are registered in the memory unit 5 in the reading order. Thus, the memory unit 5 of the calling facsimile machine 30
Then, the telephone number information of the second destination having the same contents as the related other station telephone number storage area 11c shown in FIG. 3 is constructed.

Using the registered second destination information, the calling facsimile machine 30 executes the flow chart of FIG. 6 to replace the busy called facsimile machine 10 with the original to the second destination facsimile machine. The information transmission process is executed. That is, after executing a calling process for the called facsimile machine 10 in step 10, it is determined in step 11 whether the CED signal has returned.
If it is determined that the CED signal has returned, transmission to the called facsimile machine 10 is possible, so the process proceeds to step 12 and the transmission process is started as it is.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 11 that the CED signal does not return, the process proceeds to step 13, where it is determined whether or not the second destination is registered in the called facsimile machine 10. If it is determined in step 13 that the second destination is not registered, the process ends. Conversely, when it is determined that the second destination has been registered, the process proceeds to step 14, where "j" is set to "1" in order to read the first destination second destination. Then, in the next step 15, call processing is performed on the read first-order second destination facsimile machine. If the CED signal returns from the facsimile machine of the second destination in the first order in the determination of the subsequent step 16,
Proceeding to step 12, the transmission process is started for the facsimile machine of the first order second destination. on the other hand,
If it is determined in step 16 that the CED signal does not return, the process proceeds to step 17 to determine whether or not the registration of the second destination of the next rank remains. "Is incremented by one, and the process returns to step 1 to enter the transmission process for the second destination of the next order.

In this way, by executing the flowchart of FIG. 6, the original information can be transmitted to the automatically registered second destination facsimile machine in place of the called facsimile machine 10 in the busy state. .

The processing contents of the present invention described above are schematically shown in FIG. In the figure, 31a, 31 of the calling facsimile machine 30
Reference numerals b and 31d denote a calling telephone number storage area, a local telephone number storage area, and a second destination telephone number storage area described with reference to FIG. 1, respectively. Reference numeral 31c denotes a related other station telephone of the called facsimile machine 10. The other-station telephone number storage area of the calling-side facsimile machine 30 corresponding to the number storage area 11c is shown. As shown in this figure, before calling "B" of the called facsimile machine 10, "A" of the calling facsimile machine 30 requires that the telephone number of the facsimile machine "C" of the second destination be the same. Although it is not associated with the telephone number of "B" at all, once "B" is called, the telephone number of "C" stored in the related other station telephone number storage area 11c of "B" becomes Second destination telephone number storage area
You will be automatically registered on 31d. Therefore, thereafter, transmission to the second destination is automatically executed in accordance with this association.

Although the illustrated embodiment has been described above, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the transmission order of the telephone number of the second destination is not limited to the order of the highest priority, and may be the order of the lowest, or if it is sent together with the priority number, it is random. Is also good.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the telephone number of the second destination required by the calling facsimile machine can be automatically registered in the calling facsimile machine. Therefore, the trouble of the user of the calling-side facsimile machine can be avoided. Moreover, since the user of the called facsimile machine directly registers the second destination, the registration error of the second destination is eliminated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the principle of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the hardware structure of the present invention, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the memory contents of the called facsimile machine, and FIG. FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 are flowcharts executed by the calling facsimile machine, and FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the processing contents of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a line interface unit, 2 is a modem unit, 3
Is a data compression / decompression unit, 4 is an operation unit, 5 is a memory unit, 6 is a control unit, 10 is a called facsimile machine, 11 is a telephone number storage unit, 11a is a calling telephone number storage area, and 11b is a local station. Phone number storage area, 11c is related other station phone number storage area, 1
2 is a CSI signal generating means, 13 is a CSI signal transmitting means, 20 is a related facsimile apparatus, 21b is a local telephone number storage area, 30 is a calling side facsimile apparatus, 31 is a telephone number storing means, and 31a is a calling telephone number. A storage area, 31b is a local telephone number storage area, 31c is a related other telephone number storage area, 31d is a second destination telephone number storage area, 32 is a CSI signal analysis means, and 33 is a second destination registration means.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A calling facsimile machine (30) which receives a telephone number of a facsimile machine of a second destination to be received in place of a called facsimile machine (10) in a busy state.
A destination facsimile apparatus for registering a call to a facsimile apparatus, wherein the called facsimile apparatus (10) receives one or more of the facsimile apparatuses together with the telephone number of the facsimile apparatus in place of the facsimile apparatus. The telephone numbers of the facsimile apparatuses are registered in the order of priority, and the registered telephone numbers of the facsimile apparatuses of the other stations are transmitted together with the telephone numbers of the own station in accordance with the called terminal identification signal. 30), and the calling facsimile machine (30) transmits the telephone numbers of the facsimile machines of the other stations notified according to the called terminal identification signal to the second destination in the order of priority. A second destination registration processing method for a facsimile machine, characterized in that processing is performed to register the telephone number of the facsimile machine.