JP2728113B2 - Facsimile mail device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile mail apparatus, and more particularly, to a facsimile mail apparatus having a bulletin board function by which a plurality of terminals can extract the same information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A facsimile mail apparatus is an apparatus which is connected to a plurality of terminals (for example, a facsimile apparatus) via a communication network and provides various services to these terminals. One of the services provided by such a facsimile mail device is a bulletin board service. In this system, a bulletin board area is provided in a storage unit of a facsimile mail device, and the bulletin board area can be freely accessed from a plurality of terminals (a bulletin board image can be freely extracted). .

A conventional facsimile mail apparatus having a bulletin board function has a plurality of bulletin board areas so that bulletin board services can be provided to terminals divided into a plurality of groups. A different bulletin board number is assigned to each bulletin board area, and terminals belonging to each group can access a bulletin board area designated for each group using the bulletin board number.

[0004]

A conventional facsimile mail device provides a message stored in a bulletin board area corresponding to the bulletin board number according to a bulletin board number input from a terminal. At this time, it does not matter to which group the terminal belongs. That is, each terminal can access a bulletin board area other than the bulletin board area assigned to the group to which the terminal belongs. Therefore, the conventional bulletin board service of the facsimile mail device has a problem that confidential documents in a group cannot be handled.

An object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile mail apparatus which can provide a bulletin board service which can handle confidential documents in a group.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the bulletin board stored in the image storage means is received when the terminal is confirmed to be a registered terminal upon receiving a bulletin board image retrieval request from the terminal. In a facsimile mail device that transmits an image to the terminal, a determination unit that determines whether or not a bulletin board area in which the terminal requests extraction of a bulletin board image is permitted to extract a bulletin board image to a group to which the terminal belongs. Wherein the bulletin board image is transmitted to the terminal only when there is a bulletin board image withdrawal request for a bulletin board area in which the group to which the terminal belongs is permitted to withdraw the bulletin board image. Facsimile mail device is obtained.

Specifically, according to the present invention, a terminal number assigned to each of a plurality of terminals connected to a communication network,
A registration unit for storing a group number assigned to a group to which the plurality of terminals belong, and a telephone number of each of the plurality of terminals in association with each other; an image storage unit having a plurality of bulletin board areas; Storage means for storing a bulletin board number assigned to each of a plurality of bulletin board areas and a group number of a group permitted to access each bulletin board area in association with each other; a group number corresponding to the input terminal number and a telephone number First reading means for reading a number from the registration means, second reading means for reading a group number corresponding to the inputted bulletin board number from the storage means, and an input CSI signal and the first
First comparing means for comparing the telephone number read by the reading means, and second comparing for comparing the group number read by the first reading means with the group number read by the second reading means. Means for determining whether to execute / stop transmission of a bulletin board image stored in the bulletin board area based on outputs of the first comparison means and the second comparison means; A terminal number, a bulletin board number, and a CSI signal that are connected to the first reading unit, the second reading unit, the first comparing unit, the image storing unit, and the determining unit and input through the communication network; Are respectively referred to as the first reading means, the second reading means,
Communication control means for outputting to the first comparing means, and extracting and transmitting a bulletin board image from the bulletin board area of the image storage unit based on the determination result from the determining means. Is obtained.

[0008]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. This facsimile mail device includes a communication control unit 11, a destination table 12, a bulletin board table 13, comparison units 14 and 1
5, a group number check unit 16 and a determination unit 17. Further, the facsimile mail device has an image storage unit (not shown) connected to the communication control unit 11. The image storage unit has a plurality of bulletin board areas, each of which has a bulletin board number.

The communication control unit 11 is connected to a communication network (not shown) (for example, a public telephone network or a private telephone network).
The communication control unit 11 performs necessary communication control in response to a request from a terminal device (not shown) connected to the communication network.

The destination table 12 includes a terminal number assigned to each terminal permitted to access the facsimile mail device, a group number assigned to a group to which the terminal belongs, a telephone number of the terminal, Are stored in association with each other.

The bulletin board table 13 stores a bulletin board number assigned to each of a plurality of bulletin board areas and a group number assigned to a group permitted to access the bulletin board area. Here, the number of groups that can access each bulletin board area is not limited to one. That is, a plurality of group numbers may correspond to one bulletin board number.

The comparing section 14 compares predetermined portions of the two input signals, and outputs a coincidence signal when they match.
Further, the comparing unit 15 compares the two input signals,
A match signal is output when one has a portion that matches the other.

The group number check unit 16 stores a specific group number in advance, and outputs a transmission permission signal when a signal corresponding to the group number is input.

The determination unit 17 determines whether or not to perform transmission based on the outputs of the comparison units 14 and 15 and the group check unit 16, and outputs the determination result to the communication control unit 11.

Next, the operation of the facsimile mail device will be described. When a certain terminal requests the communication control unit 11 to extract a bulletin board image, the communication control unit 11 stores the terminal number and the bulletin board number sent from the terminal in the destination table via the signal lines 101 and 102, respectively. 1
2 and the bulletin board table 13. Further, the communication control unit 11 starts a facsimile transmission operation (enters a transmission mode) and outputs a CSI signal sent from the terminal to the comparison unit 14 via the signal line 103.

When a terminal number is input from the communication control unit 11, the destination table 12 outputs a group number corresponding to the terminal number to the comparison unit 15 and the group number check unit 16 via the signal line 104. At the same time, the destination table 12 outputs the telephone number corresponding to the terminal number to the comparison unit 14 via the signal line 105.

On the other hand, when the bulletin board number 104 is input from the communication control unit 11, the bulletin board table 13 compares all the group numbers corresponding to the bulletin board number with the comparison unit 15 and the group number check unit 16 via the signal line 106. Output to

The comparison unit 14 receives the CS from the communication control unit 11
Compare the I signal with the telephone number from the destination table 12,
When the predetermined portions match, a match signal is output to the determination unit 17 via the signal line 107. That is, the comparison unit 14 outputs a match signal when a terminal registered in the destination table 12 requests a bulletin board withdrawal using a regular terminal number. And when there is a bulletin board withdrawal request from a terminal not registered in the destination table 12, and
When a terminal registered in the destination table 12 requests a bulletin board withdrawal using an incorrect terminal number,
The comparison unit 14 does not output a coincidence signal.

The comparing unit 15 compares the group number from the destination table 12 with the group number from the bulletin board table 13 and matches the group number from the destination table 12 in the group number from the bulletin board table 13. When there is a number to be determined, the determination unit 17
And outputs a match signal. In other words, if the bulletin board the terminal tries to pull out is open to that terminal,
The comparison unit 15 outputs a coincidence signal, and does not output a coincidence signal unless it is open.

The group number check unit 16 sends a transmission permission signal to the signal line 109 when a specific number stored in the group number from the destination table 12 and the group number from the bulletin board table 13 exists. And outputs it to the determination unit 17 via. For example, if a certain group number is stored in the group number checking unit 16, a transmission permission signal is output when a withdrawal request is issued from a terminal of the group. Also, if a unique group number (not assigned to any group) is stored in the bulletin board table 13 in association with a certain bulletin board number, and the group number is stored in the group number check unit 16, When there is a request to pull out a bulletin board corresponding to the bulletin board number, a transmission permission signal is output. In other words, the group number checking unit 16 requests from the group that is allowed to pull out all bulletin boards,
Alternatively, when a request to withdraw the open bulletin board is received from all terminals, a transmission permission signal is output.

The determination section 17 first makes a first determination based on the presence or absence of the input of a coincidence signal from the comparison section 14. In this determination, when no match signal is input from the comparing unit 14,
It determines that facsimile transmission should not be performed, and outputs a determination result signal indicating transmission prohibition to communication control unit 11 via signal line 110. In addition, the determination unit 17 includes the comparison unit 1
When a match signal is input from No. 4, a second determination is made based on the presence or absence of the match signal from the comparison unit 15 and the transmission permission signal from the group number check unit 16. In this determination, if either the match signal from comparison section 15 or the transmission permission signal from group number check section 16 is input, a determination result signal indicating transmission permission is transmitted via signal line 110 to communication control section 11. Output to When neither the coincidence signal from the comparison unit 15 nor the transmission permission signal from the group number check unit 16 is input, the signal line 1
A determination result signal indicating transmission prohibition is output to the communication control unit 11 via.

Communication control section 11 terminates the transmission mode when a determination result signal indicating transmission prohibition is input. Further, when a determination result signal indicating transmission permission is input, the bulletin board image is transmitted to the terminal that has requested the withdrawal.

In the above embodiment, the group number and the telephone number are output from the destination table 12 and the group number is output from the bulletin board table 13 for the sake of convenience. The table 13 is stored in a storage unit (not shown), and a reading unit connected between the communication control unit 11 and the storage unit reads data from these tables according to an instruction from the communication control unit 11. Then, it outputs to the comparison units 14 and 15 and the group number check unit 16. Here, the storage units may be independent or may be a single storage unit.
Further, the destination table 12 and the bulletin board table 13
May be provided in the same storage unit as the image storage unit.

[0024]

According to the present invention, the destination table stores the group number, the bulletin board cable stores the bulletin board number and the group number, and compares the group number from the destination table with the group number from the ground table. By doing so, the bulletin board image can be transmitted only when there is a request from a terminal permitted to access the bulletin board. That is, a bulletin board image of a bulletin board for which access is not permitted cannot be extracted. Therefore, according to the present invention, confidential documents in a group can be handled on a bulletin board.

Further, by providing the group number checking unit, all bulletin board areas can be opened to a specific group. Also, a specific bulletin board area can be released to all groups.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Communication control part 12 Destination table 13 Bulletin board table 14, 15 Comparison part 16 Group number check part 17 Judgment part

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A facsimile mail apparatus for transmitting a bulletin board image stored in an image storage means to a terminal when the terminal is confirmed to be a registered terminal in response to a request for extracting a bulletin board image from the terminal. A determination unit that determines whether a bulletin board area for which the terminal requests extraction of a bulletin board image is permitted to extract a bulletin board image to a group to which the terminal belongs; A facsimile mail apparatus wherein the bulletin board image is transmitted to the terminal only when a bulletin board image withdrawal request is issued to a bulletin board area for which image retrieval is permitted. 2. A terminal number assigned to each of a plurality of terminals connected to a communication network, a group number assigned to a group to which each of the plurality of terminals belongs, and a telephone number of each of the plurality of terminals. Registration means for storing a plurality of bulletin board areas in association with each other, a bulletin board number assigned to each of the plurality of bulletin board areas, and a group number of a group permitted to access each of the bulletin board areas. Storage means for storing a group number and a telephone number corresponding to the input terminal number from the registration means, and a group number corresponding to the input bulletin board number. A second reading means for reading from the storage means, and a second comparing means for comparing the input CSI signal with the telephone number read by the first reading means. 1 comparison means, and second comparison means for comparing the group number read by the first reading means with the group number read by the second reading means,
Determining means for determining whether to execute / stop transmission of the bulletin board image stored in the bulletin board area based on outputs of the first comparison means and the second comparison means;
A terminal number, a bulletin board number, and a terminal number connected to the first reading unit, the second reading unit, the first comparing unit, the image storing unit, and the determining unit and input through the communication network; A CSI signal is output to the first reading means, the second reading means, and the first comparing means, respectively, and a bulletin board image is stored in a bulletin board area of the image storage unit based on a determination result from the determining means. A facsimile mail device comprising: 3. A group number which is connected to the first reading means, the second reading means, and the judging means, and is included in a group number inputted from the first reading means and the second reading means. A group number check unit that outputs a transmission permission signal to the determination unit when a number that matches a specific group number stored in advance is provided; the determination unit includes the first comparison unit and the second comparison unit; 3. The facsimile mail apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the determination is made based on an output from a comparing unit and the transmission permission signal.