JPH02215252A - Computer communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain exchange of mail information in real time by transferring mail information sent from each computer terminal equipment via a communication line to other computer terminal equipment except a sender. CONSTITUTION:When mail information 21 is sent from a computer terminal equipment 1a, a data transfer controller 3 distributes the information 21 to other computer terminal equipments 1b-1d as mail information 22. The equipments 1b-1d display the sent mail information on a split display areas. Even when the mail information is inputted simultaneously to the equipments 1b-1d and the information is transferred simultaneously, the mail is distributed correctly to the destination based on the code information of the sender included in the mail information. Moreover, the equipments 1a-1d receive a reply simultaneously even when they are receiving the mail information. Thus, the mail information is exchanged in real time.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a computer for performing real-time communication between a plurality of terminal devices using personal computer communication using, for example, a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a personal computer). Related to communication devices.

[Prior Art] In conventional computer communication, a mailbox corresponding to each terminal is provided in a central processing unit that can be commonly accessed by multiple computer terminals, and when a sending terminal sends mail information, a mailbox is provided for each terminal. E-mail information was sent to a mailbox compatible with the terminal, and the receiving side checked whether the e-mail information was present in its own mailbox whenever necessary, and retrieved and displayed the e-mail information each time.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the conventional PC communication described above, when sending the same email information to multiple terminals, the same information must be sent one by one to the mailbox corresponding to each terminal. However, there was a problem that e-mail information could not be exchanged in real time between multiple terminals, and it could not be applied to a conference system using communication means.

The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and includes:
An object of the present invention is to provide a computer communication device capable of exchanging mail information between a plurality of terminal devices in real time.

[Means for Solving the Problems] A computer communication device according to the present invention includes a plurality of computer terminals that simultaneously display e-mail information from a plurality of senders by dividing the display area, and input e-mail information to be transmitted. and a data transfer control device that is connected to these computer terminal devices via a communication line and transfers mail information transmitted from each of the computer terminal devices via the communication line to other computer terminal devices other than the sender. It is characterized by having the following.

[Operations] According to the present invention, mail information sent from a sender is simultaneously transferred to other computer terminal devices other than the sender by the data transfer control device. Then, each computer terminal device simultaneously displays mail information from a plurality of senders in each of the divided display areas. Therefore, mail information sent from a sender is immediately transferred to and displayed on a plurality of destination terminal devices.

Further, each computer terminal device can input a reply while viewing mail information from these plurality of terminal devices.

Therefore, according to the present invention, a plurality of computer terminal devices can exchange mail information in real time, and the present invention can be applied to a computer conference system.

[Example] Next, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a computer communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A plurality of personal computer terminal devices (hereinafter referred to as terminal devices) LA, LB, LC, and LD are located at remote locations from each other, and are connected to a communication line 2a.

It is connected to the data transfer control device 3 via 2b, 2c, and 2d.

The terminal devices 1a to 1d have their screens divided so that mail information from other terminal devices 1a to 1d can be simultaneously displayed in each divided area. Furthermore, the terminal devices 1a to 1d are designed to allow data input even while receiving mail information.

The data transfer control device 3 divides and transfers mail information transmitted via the communication lines 2a to 2d to other terminal devices other than the sender, and includes a transmission/reception control section 11 as shown in FIG. The sender identification section 12, which is composed of the sender identification section 12 and the recipient assignment section 13, is connected to the transmission/reception control section 1.
The sender of mail information received via 1 is identified from, for example, code information included in the header of the transfer data.

The recipient assignment unit 13 assigns destination terminal devices based on information on terminal devices participating in the conference that are registered in advance. The transmission/reception control unit 11 forms a communication interface between the sender identification unit 12 and recipient assignment unit 13 and the communication lines 2a to 2d, and transmits data necessary for sender identification from the received mail information to the sender. At the same time as outputting the received mail information to the identification section 12, the received mail information is sent to the recipient assignment section 1.
The data is simultaneously transferred to multiple terminal devices specified by the allocation information from 3.

In such a configuration, for example, when mail information 21 is sent from the terminal device 1a, the data transfer control device 3 transmits this mail information 21 to the other terminal devices 1b, lc, ld.
The information is distributed as mail information 22 to Each of the terminal devices 1b to 1d displays the sent mail information in divided display areas. Even when mail information is entered simultaneously on a plurality of terminal devices 1a to 1d and transferred at the same time, the mail information is correctly distributed to the recipients according to the sender's code information included in the mail information. Further, each of the terminal devices 1a to 1d can input a reply at the same time while receiving mail information.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the present invention uses a data transfer control device to simultaneously transfer outgoing mail information to multiple terminal devices, and further allows each terminal device to simultaneously divide incoming mail information from multiple terminal devices. Since the data being entered at the sender can be displayed simultaneously on other computer terminal devices, the sent e-mail information can be instantly obtained, and a reply can be entered at the same time even while receiving the e-mail. . Therefore, e-mail information can be exchanged in real time, and when applied to a computer conference, an efficient conference can be realized.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a computer communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a data transfer control device in the same system. ] a to 1d; personal computer terminal device, 2
a to 2d; communication line; 3; data transfer control device; 1;
1; Transmission/reception control unit, 12; Sender identification unit, 13; Recipient assignment unit, 21, 22; Mail information

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A plurality of computer terminal devices that simultaneously display e-mail information from multiple senders by dividing the display area and input the e-mail information to be sent, and a computer terminal connected to these computer terminal devices via a communication line. A computer communication device comprising: a data transfer control device that transfers mail information transmitted from each of the computer terminal devices via the communication line to other computer terminal devices other than the sender.