JPH0237860A - Personal computer communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To freely process the processing actual result of an automatic dial with respective types of existing applications by storing prescribed data concerning an automatic dial with a format to apply to the data file of another application. CONSTITUTION:By the operation of a keyboard 2 with an operator, a telephone directory is activated, the designated destination is displayed on a CRT 3, a dial number corresponding to the most economical line is prepared to the selected destination and sent from a telephone circuit 9. When an automatic dial communication by a telephone directory application is completed, next, the data such as the destination, dial number, time and connection time concerning the communication are matched to the format of the table calculation application specified beforehand and stored into an input file for table calculation. Thus, the processing actual results of the automatic dial can be freely processed by respective types of the existing application.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a personal computer communication device.

[Prior Art 1] Conventionally, a personal computer communication device having a telephone directory application has been known.

The above-mentioned telephone directory application utilizes the processing power and storage capacity of a personal computer, and registers a large number of destinations in a file, displays them on a CRT, and selects one or more of them. Transmission is performed by automatic dialing by having the operator select the destination.

In addition, in such a personal computer communication device, NCC (
It is also possible to implement a function that automatically dials the expected optimal line from among multiple long-distance telephone services due to power outages.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] By the way, various applications are running on personal computers, such as convenient applications such as simple spreadsheet packages, statistical analysis based on the spreadsheets, and graph applications. Existing. In such spreadsheet applications and the like, when importing data from outside the application, a method is adopted in which the data is input as a file in a certain format.

However, the telephone directory application in conventional PC communication devices simply selects a predetermined destination from multiple destinations and automatically dials it, which uses only a small portion of the personal computer's afJIp. , it does not make effective use of the various applications mentioned above.

The present invention provides for processing by a telephone directory application.
An object of the present invention is to provide a personal computer communication device that can effectively utilize various existing applications on a personal computer.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides a telephone directory for automatically dialing by creating a telephone number of the other party according to an operator's designation, in a PC communication device equipped with a telephone having an automatic dialing function and a personal computer. has an application,
When automatic dialing is performed using this telephone directory application, predetermined data regarding this automatic dialing is stored in a format compatible with the data file of another application.

[Function] In the present invention, predetermined data regarding automatic dialing is stored in a format compatible with the data file of another application, so that automatic dialing processing results can be freely processed by various existing applications. By outputting this information in various formats, it becomes easy to understand the overall processing results, and the functions of the personal computer can be utilized effectively.

For example, if you memorize the time of automatic dialing, the destination phone number, the connection time of the selected line, etc. in a format compatible with the spreadsheet application, you can later import this data into the spreadsheet application and calculate the communication charges at that time. It is possible to calculate the actual charge and the charge when another long-distance telephone service is selected, and output statistical data such as how much of a difference there is in an easy-to-understand format.

[Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a personal computer communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

This personal computer communication device includes CPUI, keyboard 2, C
RT3, printer 4, external storage device (hard disk)
5, ROM 6, RAM 7, and telephone 8. Note that a branch line 9 is connected to the telephone 8.

The CPUI controls the entire computer communication device. Further, the ROMB stores basic software for control by the CPU 1, while the RAM 7 stores software for various applications such as a telephone directory application and a spreadsheet application shown in FIG.

Furthermore, the external storage device 5 stores a phonebook file used by the phonebook application, a line selection table file used to calculate charges for line selection, and data related to automatic dialing performed by the phonebook application. Spreadsheet input files and the like for use in spreadsheet applications are stored.

For example, a telephone directory file stores a large number of destination names by index along with their telephone numbers, some of which are displayed on the CRT3 by the telephone directory application, and some of these displayed names are will be selected and automatically dialed.

The line selection table file contains the area code and MA (unit charge area) necessary for calculating charges for each long distance telephone service.
Various types of data are stored, such as a correspondence table with each MA, X, 7 coordinates of each MA, position data and support area information of Po1 (connection point) of each NCC (power outage) company, and charge calculation data of each company.

The input file for the spreadsheet contains the time for automatic dialing,
The destination telephone number, connection time of the selected line, etc. are stored in a format compatible with spreadsheet applications.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of this personal computer communication device.

First, by operating the keyboard 2 by the operator,
The phonebook application starts and the specified destination is
It is called up from the telephone directory file and displayed on the CRT 3 (31).Next, when the operator selects the destination to which he/she wishes to send from among the displayed destinations (32), the most economical A suitable line is selected based on the above line selection table, a dial number corresponding to this line is created (S3), and this dial number is sent from the telephone line 9 (S4), and the line connection/disconnection etc. Monitor (SS).

When the automatic dialing communication using the phonebook application is completed in this way, the data related to this communication, such as the destination, dialed number, time, connection time, etc., is then displayed in a predetermined format, that is, in the format of the spreadsheet application. It is stored in a calculation input file (S6).

By storing data related to automatic dialing in the format of a spreadsheet application in this way, you can later import this data into the spreadsheet application and calculate, for example, the communication charges at that time.
It is possible to calculate the actual charges and the charges when selecting other long-distance telephone services, and to freely create statistical data such as how much of a difference there is. So this data,
By displaying the information on the CRT 3 in an easy-to-understand format such as a graph, it is extremely effective for understanding communication performance.

In addition, in the above example, it was described that it is used to compare the statistics of line usage charges and the actual usage charges of each long-distance telephone service company, but the busy rate of the line of each long-distance telephone service company is also calculated. By changing the data to be remembered, such as aggregating data for
Various usage forms are possible.

Furthermore, it is also possible to configure a system in which materials for investigating the logic for selecting the optimal line are created using a spreadsheet application, and the logic is fed back to the telephone directory application.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, predetermined data regarding automatic dialing is stored in a format compatible with the data file of another application, so that automatic dialing processing results can be freely processed by various existing applications. By outputting this information in various formats, it is possible to easily understand the overall processing results, and the functions of the personal computer can be utilized effectively.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a personal computer communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the relationship between applications and various data files processed in the personal computer communication device of the same embodiment. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the personal computer communication device of the same embodiment. l...CPU. 2...Keyboard, 3...CRT, 4...Printer, 5...External storage device, 6...ROM, 7...RAM, 8...Telephone.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A personal computer communication device equipped with a telephone with an automatic dialing function and a personal computer, which has a telephone directory application that creates a telephone number of the other party and performs automatic dialing according to the operator's specifications, and this telephone directory application A personal computer communication device characterized in that, when automatic dialing is performed by an application, various data related to automatic dialing are stored in a format compatible with a data file of another application. (2) The personal computer communication device according to claim (1), wherein the various data related to automatic dialing include a telephone number, time, and connection time. (3) The personal computer communication device according to claim (1), wherein the automatic dialing includes automatically selecting and dialing one of a plurality of long distance telephone services.