JPH0234058A - Common data transmission method to plural communication equipments - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the transmission required time for a common data by allowing a prescribed communication equipment to become a first expedient master and transmitting the common data to other prescribed communication equipment having a registration code stored in a storage section. CONSTITUTION:A registration code Ci is a code of an expedient master communication equipment of the opposite party to receive a data from now and stored in advance in a storage section 2 of each communication equipment. A common data D is inputted to the communication equipment A1 being the first expedient master via an input section 3 manually. Moreover, the common data D is stored in the storage section 2 by an input processing section 13. A call transmission section 12 of the communication equipment A1 reads codes C2, C3 of the communication equipments A2, A3 of the opposite party and the data D from the storage section 2, the equipments A2, A3 are called and the data D is sent. The common data D is sent from the communication equipments A1, A2, A3 being the 2nd expedient master to communication equipments A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9 respectively. The common data D is sent from only the communication equipment A1 being the 3rd expedient master to the rest communication equipment A10.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a method for transmitting common data to each of a plurality of communication devices connected via a line to a communication line network having an exchange function, and in particular, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting common data to each of a plurality of communication devices connected via a line to a communication line network having a switching function. The present invention relates to a common data transmission method to a device.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a conventional data transmission system. In FIG. 2, there are two communication devices Bi each.
Telephone line 11 via each line Li (i=l~n)
connected to flO. Now, when transmitting certain data in common to all communication devices, one of the communication devices Bi is designated as a temporary parent, and after manually inputting the common data to be transmitted to this temporary parent communication device, the other communication devices are sequentially transmitted. A method was adopted in which data was transmitted to two communication devices at a time.The number of communication devices that can transmit data at one time corresponds to the number of lines. Of course, as the number of lines Li increases, the number of communication devices that can transmit data at once also increases accordingly.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

As explained above, in the conventional technology, the telephone line y11
There is a problem in that as the number of different communication devices connected to 0 increases, the time required to transmit common data becomes longer. For example, if the number of each line is 2, when the number of communication devices Bi is 10, the data transmission by the temporary parent to each communication device will be performed in 5 steps, and similarly, when the number of communication devices Bi is 20, data transmission will be performed in 10 steps. be. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a method for transmitting common data to a plurality of terminal devices, which solves the above-mentioned problems of the conventional technology and can shorten the time required for transmitting common data.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to solve this problem, the method for transmitting common data to multiple communication devices according to the present invention includes transmitting common data to each of the multiple communication devices connected via a line to a communication line network having an exchange function. In the method, each of the communication devices includes a receiving/receiving unit that receives the transmitted common data in response to a call from the other party; and a registration code of each communication device to which the common data is to be transmitted. a storage unit for storing; a calling unit for calling each of the other communication devices and transmitting the common data stored in the storage unit;
A predetermined communication device that is separately provided with an input section for the common data among the respective communication devices becomes a primary temporary parent, and the predetermined communication device has a transmitting section; The common data input through the input unit is transmitted to each other predetermined communication device having a code, and then the predetermined communication device as the first foster parent and the another predetermined communication device Become a secondary temporary parent and transmit the common data to each of further predetermined communication devices having a different registration code within the number of the lines each has, and thereafter transmit the common data to all of the communication devices in the same manner. The transmission of the common data is completed.

[For use]

Among the communication devices, a predetermined communication device that is separately provided with an input section for common data becomes a primary temporary parent, and this predetermined communication device is used as a temporary parent for another predetermined communication device that has a registration code stored in its storage section. The common data input through the input unit is transmitted to the communication device. Next, the communication device serving as the primary foster parent and another prescribed communication device become secondary foster parents, each of which becomes a further prescribed communications device having a different registration code stored in its storage unit. Transmit common data. Thereafter, the common data is transmitted to all communication devices in the same manner.

【Example】

An application example of the common data transmission method to multiple communication devices according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The configuration of the data transmission system to which the method of the present invention is applied is the same as the conventional system shown in FIG. 2, except that the communication device At(i=1−n) is used instead of the communication device BiO.
is connected to the telephone line network 10. The configuration of this communication device Ai will be explained with reference to the block diagram of FIG. All of the communication devices A+ have substantially the same configuration, and as will be described later, only the predetermined communication device that becomes the temporary parent first is equipped with an additional unit. In FIG. 1, 1 is a control unit, 2 is a storage unit, and 4 is an MO
DEM 5 is an NCU, and 5a and 5b are connection terminals to the line. Note that in this case, the number of lines is two. The control section 1 includes a receiving/receiving section 11 and a transmitting/transmitting section 12 . The receiving/receiving unit 11 has a function of accepting the transmitted common data in response to a call from the other party.
has the function of calling each other communication device and transmitting common data to it. The storage unit 2 also stores common data and the registration code of each imaging device to which the common data is to be transmitted. Now, only the predetermined communication device that initially becomes a temporary parent is provided with an input unit 3 and an input processing unit 3 as additional units, which are indicated by broken lines. The input unit 3 is, for example, a keyboard, and is a means for manually inputting common data to be transmitted. The input processing section 13 has a function of storing common data input via the input section 3 in the storage section 2 . The operation of the application example of the invention method will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3 and the transmission hierarchy diagram of the application example of FIG. 4, respectively. In FIG. 4, there are a total of ten communication devices Ai (i=1 to 10), and each communication device has two lines. The transmission of common data is carried out in three stages: primary, secondary, and tertiary. In the first transmission, communication device A1
is the temporary parent, and in the second transmission, communication devices AI, A2. A3 is the temporary parent, and only the communication device AI is the temporary parent in the third transmission. Note that the communication device of each foster parent and the communication device of the other party to which data is transmitted are connected in a straight line. In FIG. 3, in step S1, a registration code (j) is set. This registration code Ci is determined for each communication device of the temporary parent, and is the code of the communication device of the other party to which data is to be transmitted. For example, , Regarding AI,
The first one is A2. Each code C1, C2 of A3, the second order is A
4. Each code C4 and C5 of A5 and the third order are the code CIO of AIO. Also, in A2, the second order is C6, C
7, and in A3, the second order is C8 and C9. Note that each code is stored in advance in the storage unit 2 of each communication device shown in FIG. In step S2, Tsushin ffA1 as the first temporary parent
The common data D is input manually via the input section 3 (see FIG. 1). Further, this common data D is stored in the storage unit 2 by the input processing unit 13. In step S3, communication device A2. A
To explain in detail, as soon as the common data D is transmitted to A2. Each code C of A3
2, C3 and data D are read from the storage unit 2, and A
2. A3 is called and data D is transmitted. This step s3 is the first data transmission. In step S4, the communication device AI as the second temporary parent
, A2, A3, respectively, communication devices A4゜A5,
A6. A7, A8. Common data D is transmitted to A9. Note that the detailed procedure for transmission has already been described, so the explanation will be omitted. This step S4 is the second data transmission. In step S5, the common data D is transmitted only from the communication device A1 serving as the tertiary temporary parent to the remaining communication devices AIO. This step S5 is the third data transmission. As described above, in this application example, data transmission is
This is performed in three stages, second and third, and the time required can be reduced compared to five stages of transmission using the conventional method for the same 10 communication devices. Next, in the case where there are 20 communication devices, in the application example of the method of this invention, three stages of transmission are sufficient as shown in the transmission hierarchy diagram of FIG. According to the conventional method, there are 10 stages, so
As the number of communication devices increases, the effect of reducing the required time increases dramatically.

【Effect of the invention】

As explained above, in this invention, a plurality of communication devices to which data has been transmitted from a predetermined communication device as a first foster parent are transferred to a second foster parent together with a predetermined communication device that was a first foster parent. Become. This second-order foster parent transmits data to another communication device determined for each, and the communication device to which this data was transmitted becomes a third-level foster parent together with the communication device that was the second-level foster parent. Since the number of communication devices that transmit data in this way increases in a geometric progression with each layer, the time required for transmitting common data can be dramatically shortened. Furthermore, the reduction effect becomes more significant as the number of communication devices increases.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a communication device when the method of the invention is applied; FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the configuration of a data transmission system; FIG. FIG. 4 is a transmission hierarchy diagram in this one application example, and FIG. 5 is a transmission hierarchy diagram in another application example. Code explanation Ai: communication device, Li: line, C1: registration code,
D: Common data, 1: Control section, 2: Storage section, 3: Input section, 4: MODE
M, 5: NCU, 10: Telephone line network, 11: Receiving/Calling section, 12: Sending/Transmitting section, Fig. 3, porridge 1, fig. 2, fig. 42, fig. 5

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1) A method for transmitting common data to each of a plurality of communication devices connected via a line to a communication line network having an exchange function, wherein each of the communication devices transmits common data to a receiving/receiving unit that receives a call in response to a call from the other party; a storage unit that stores the common data and a registration code of each separate communication device to which the same is to be sent; a caller who calls and transmits the common data stored in the storage unit;
A predetermined communication device that is provided with a transmission unit and; and that is separately provided with an input unit for the common data among the communication devices becomes the first temporary parent, and transmits the registration code within the number of the lines that this predetermined communication device has. The common data input through the input unit is transmitted to each of the other predetermined communication devices having a second parent, and then the first predetermined communication device as the first foster parent and the other predetermined communication device Become the next temporary parent and transmit the common data to each further predetermined communication device having a different registration code within the number of the lines each has, and then do the same to transmit the common data to all of the communication devices. A method for transmitting common data to multiple communication devices, characterized in that the data transmission is completed.