JPH0256692A - Information medium issuing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten the waiting time of a customer and to improve service by issuing an information medium according to set priority and issuing the information medium to the customer with priority. CONSTITUTION:The issue instruction information of the information medium are read out of information stored to a storing means 1, by an issuing means 4 and the printing or magnetic recording, etc., of these information is executed to the information medium, then, the information medium is issued. On the other hand, a priority setting means 2 reads the setting priority information of the information medium out of the information, which are stored to the storing means 1, and sets the priority of the information medium issue to the storing means 1. A control means causes the issuing means 4 to read the issue instructing information according to the priority, which is set by the priority setting means 2, and records these information to the information medium and the information medium is issued. Thus, emergency information or customer information can be issued with the priority.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an information medium issuing device for issuing information media such as bankbooks, certificates, magnetic cards, IC cards, etc. in financial institutions, for example.

[Conventional technology]

In recent years, at branches of financial institutions such as banks, new passbooks, certificates, etc. are issued upon receiving instructions via communication with higher-level stations (installed at the financial institution's head office, computer center, etc.) such as a host computer. A method of doing this has been adopted. FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram for performing such issuance. As shown in the figure, a host computer 1, which is an upper station, is connected to a terminal control device 2 of the branch via a dedicated line, and a counter device 3 and an information medium issuing device 4 are connected to the terminal control device 2. ing.

Further, FIG. 3 is an external perspective view of the information medium issuing device 4, partially showing the internal configuration. In the figure, 5 is a keyboard, 6 is a display section, and 7 is a medium outlet. Reference numeral 8 denotes a cassette for storing various information media, and each cassette stores a predetermined type of information medium. 9 is a hopper for taking out the information medium from the cassette 8, and 10 is a printer for printing on the information medium.

Incidentally, a typical example of such a device is a passbook certificate issuing machine that prints on bankbooks, certificates, and other information media, and issues new bankbooks, certificates, and the like. The operation of this passbook certificate issuing machine is as follows. First of all,
When the passbook issuing person operates the teller device 3, the passbook issuing information is transmitted to the host computer 1. After that, when the processing of the host computer 1 is completed, a passbook issuance command is sent to the passbook certificate issuing machine. Then, the passbook certificate issuing machine takes out the passbook from the cassette 8, prints necessary information using the printer 10, and ejects the passbook from the medium ejection lower.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, the above conventional example has the following problems.

That is, information media includes passbooks, certificates, etc. handed to customers who come to the branch, and money order forms used within the branch. However, in the past, information media were issued in the order in which the instructions for issuing the media were received from the higher-level station, and the type of information media was not reflected in the order of issue. For this reason,
For example, if a large number of instructions are received to output money orders, the output of passbooks and the like to be delivered to customers will be delayed. Therefore, the waiting time for customers becomes longer and the service to customers deteriorates.Furthermore, there is a problem in that the branch office has to perform complicated tasks such as organizing the customers.

In addition, some of the information media used within the branch is for transmitting emergency information, and as a result of the delay in outputting emergency information from the host computer, accident countermeasures are delayed, and as a result, a minor accident develops into a serious problem. The problem was that it could happen.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and its purpose is to:
An object of the present invention is to provide an information medium issuing device that determines the priority order of issuance according to the type of information medium and issues the information medium in the order according to the degree of importance.

[Means to solve the problem]

The information medium issuing device according to the present invention includes a receiving means for receiving various information sent from an information medium issuing command section, a storage means for storing the received information, and a system for storing information from among the stored information. Issuing means that reads out issuance instruction information that instructs issuance of the information medium and issues the information medium based on this issuance instruction information, and ranking setting that sets an issuance order for each type of information medium from among the stored information. a priority setting means for reading information and setting a priority order of information medium issuance in the storage means; and issuance instruction information stored in the storage means by the issuing means according to the priority order set by the priority order setting means. The invention is characterized in that it has a control means that performs control to read the information media and issue the information media in the order of priority.

[For production]

In the present invention, the receiving means receives various types of information sent from the information medium issue command section, and the storage means stores this information.

The issuing means reads issue instruction information for the information medium from among the information stored in the storage means, prints or magnetically records the information on the information medium, and issues the information medium. On the other hand, the priority setting means reads out the order setting information of the information medium from the information stored in the storage means, and sets the priority order of issuing the information medium in the storage means.

The control means causes the issuance means to read out the issuance instruction information, record it on the information medium, and issue it according to the priority set by the priority order setting means.

Therefore, information media are issued in the order of types set by the priority setting means, and for example, emergency information and customer information can be issued with priority.

〔Example〕

The present invention will be explained below based on illustrated embodiments.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an information medium issuing device (hereinafter referred to as issuing device) according to the present invention.

This issuing device corresponds to numeral 4 in the system configuration diagram of FIG. 2, and its external shape is the same as that shown in FIG. 3. Therefore, in Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and 3
The same parts as those in the configuration shown in the figures will be described with the same reference numerals.

That is, in FIG. 1, 1 is an upper station as an information medium issue command unit, 5 is a keyboard, 6 is a display unit that displays the input contents of the keyboard 5, etc., 8 is a cassette, 9 is a hopper,
10 is a printer. Further, 11 is a line control circuit that receives signals from the upper station 1, and 12 is an FDD (flop
py disk drive), 13 is an FDD control circuit that controls the operation of the FDD 12, 14 is a hopper control circuit that controls the operation of the hopper 9, 15 is a printer control circuit that controls the operation of the printer 10, and 16 is a display on the display unit 6. A display control circuit 17 is a keyboard control circuit of the keyboard 5 for controlling the operation. Furthermore, 18 is a RAM, 19 is a ROM, and 20 is a CPU.

The program for operating the issuing device 4 in the above configuration is, for example, read from the FDD 12 into the RAM 18. The operation based on the program in the RAM 18 is roughly as follows. That is, various information sent from the upper station 1 is stored in the RAM 18 through the line control circuit 11 (the line control circuit 11, RAM 18, and CPU 20 function as receiving means). Here, the information sent from the upper station 1 and stored in the RAM 18 (RAM 18 functions as a storage means) includes information medium issuance instruction information A including the recorded contents of the information medium, and information indicating the priority order of information medium issuance. There is rank setting information B, etc. that is set for each type of medium. And 1. The CPU 20 calls up the issuance instruction information in the RAM 18 according to the priority order of information medium issuance rewritten in the RAM 18, and causes the printer 10 to print this on a bankbook or the like as an information medium and issue it.
20 and RAM 18 function as priority setting means,
Furthermore, the CPU 20, hopper 9, hopper control circuit 14, printer 10, and printer control circuit 15 function as issuing means).

Therefore, information media will be issued in the order of priority, such as giving priority to emergency information such as accident notifications, followed by customer information, and then information within the business office. Settings can be made freely.

Next, based on FIG. 1 and FIGS. 4 to 8, the message (information) reception operation and priority setting operation (first process) and issuance control operation (second process) of this embodiment will be explained. (The two processes perform parallel processing under the control of the operating system, which is a program.) Here, FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b) illustrate the processing operations of this embodiment. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the manner in which issuance instruction information is stored, FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram illustrating the manner of the ranking setting instruction message, and FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing the aspect of the transmission message to the upper station. FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of the actual processing operation.

In the first process shown in FIG. 4(a), S
At IO (S means step), the issuing device 4 waits to receive a message from the higher-level station 1, and when received, it proceeds to 311. In S11, it checks whether the message type is issue instruction information A of an information medium or not. It is determined whether the ranking setting instruction information is B, and if it is the issuance instruction information A, the process advances to S12. Although the case where there are two types of messages is shown here, there may be cases where there are three or more types. In S12, the reception of the issuance instruction information A is registered in a queue (addresses 1 to 1 in FIG. 5).
N) Store the issuance instruction information A in the RAM 18 (memory) Next, proceed to 313 and notify the second process described later that the issuance instruction information A has been received from the upper station 1, and then proceed to S15. A reception notification is sent to the upper station 1 in the form of a message shown in FIG. In the transmission message, the message type in FIG. 7 is a storage notification of issuance instruction information A, and the processing number is a number indicating the order in which the issuance instructions are sent. The part (■) in FIG. 8 is an operation example for the above explanation.

On the other hand, if the message type is issuance order setting instruction information B in S11, the process advances to S14, where the content of the message is stored in the memory, and the process advances to S15. In S14, a reception notification is sent to the upper station 1 in the form of a message shown in FIG. In the transmission message, the message type in FIG. 7 is a storage notification of ranking setting instruction information B, and the processing number is a number indicating the order in which the ranking setting instruction is sent.

A portion of FIG. 8 is an operation example for the above explanation.

In the second process shown in FIG. 4(b), S
When there is a reception notification in step 20, the process proceeds to step S21, where the contents of the memory storing the information medium issuance ranking information and the address of the information medium issuance instruction information A are initialized. This initializes the contents of the storage area for sequentially searching the issuance instruction information group received from the upper station 1 according to the queue in the subsequent steps (822 to 525), as shown in FIG. It's for a reason. The information medium issuance ranking information in S21 adopts an initial value that is lower than the priority ranking according to the type of information medium set by the upper station. By doing this, the ranking of the issue instruction information searched first is set to the first.After the initialization is completed, one issue instruction information A is searched according to the queue in S22. Here, an address in the memory that stores the issue instruction information A exists in the queue. Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the issuance instruction information A stores various data such as a message type, a processing number, a medium code, and print data.

In 323, as described above, using the medium code existing in the searched publication instruction information A as a search key, search is made in the ranking setting instruction information B stored in advance in the memory in the same format as the ranking setting instruction message shown in FIG. The media code is searched sequentially to find a matching media code. After exploring,
If the ranking corresponding to the medium code in the issue instruction information A is higher than the ranking information, this ranking is stored as new ranking information, and the address of the issue instruction information A is also newly stored. Here, if the ranking in the issuance instruction information A is not higher than the ranking information or is the same, the ranking information and the address of the issuance instruction information A are not newly stored.

In S25, the ranking update operations from S22 to 324 are repeated for all the issuance instruction information A, thereby
The received issuance instruction information A is detected in order from the highest rank, that is, the issuance instruction information A to be processed first.

In S26, the information medium issuance process is executed based on the highest-ranked issuance instruction information A. This information medium issuance process is performed from the cassette in which the medium corresponding to the medium code is set (for example, information regarding the correspondence is entered in advance from the keyboard 5 and stored in the RAM 18 when this device is installed). The medium is taken out by the hopper, and the print data shown in Figure 5 is printed by the printer (if necessary, magnetic recording is also performed on the medium).
After printing is completed, the medium is discharged to the medium discharge port.

At step 327, the issue instruction information processed at step 326 is removed from the memory and queue to empty the memory area.

In 328, as shown in part ■ in Fig. 8, the seventh
A message (medium issue processing result) in the form shown in the figure is sent to the upper station 1. Here, the message type is a media issuance processing result notification, and the processing number is a number indicating the order in which issuance instructions are sent.

The above explanation assumes that the medium is a print medium such as a passbook or certificate, but it can also be applied to magnetic cards or IC cards as the medium. In this case, this can be realized by replacing the printer control circuit 15 and printer 10 in FIG. 1 with a magnetic or electrical recording control circuit and a magnetic or electrical recording mechanism. That is, the medium is not limited to print media, and can be applied to various other media.

In the above embodiment, a case has been described in which a plurality of pieces of issuing instruction information A are stored in the issuing device, but the present invention is not limited to this, and it is possible to store a plurality of pieces of instruction information A in the issuing device. Even if there is no storage area, if the upper station or other device has such a storage area, this storage area can be used to provide the same functionality. In other words, the use of the present device is not limited to terminal devices in sales offices, but can be widely applied to other uses.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, it is possible to issue information media according to the set priority order and issue information media to customers preferentially, thereby reducing customer waiting time and improving service. It can also improve customer turnover and reduce complicated tasks such as organizing customers. Further, it is possible to issue priority information such as emergency information that is important to the business office, and has the effect of being able to quickly respond to accidents and the like.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the information medium issuing device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram of the conventional and this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a diagram of the information medium issuing device of the conventional and this embodiment. External perspective view, FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b) are flowcharts 1 to 1 showing the information medium issuing processing operation of this embodiment, and FIG. 5 is an explanation showing the storage mode of issuing instructions and information of this embodiment. Figure 6 is an explanatory diagram of the ranking setting instruction message of this embodiment, Figure 7 is an explanatory diagram of the transmission message to the upper station of this embodiment, and Figure 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the operation of this embodiment. It is. 1... Upper station, 4... Information medium issuing device, 18...
・RAM, 20...CPU. Patent Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Agent, Patent Attorney 1) Actual system, temperature A', Fig. 2, 9, 9, 4, 4 <, Main order, Fig. 3, Fig. 1 (lower I?”rjlePI, Fig. 8)

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Receiving means for receiving various information sent from an information medium issuance command unit; storage means for storing the received information; an issuance unit that reads out issuance instruction information that instructs the issuance instruction information and issues an information medium based on this issuance instruction information, and from among the stored information,
a priority setting means for reading out ranking setting information for setting the issuance order for each type of information medium and setting the priority for issuing the information medium in the storage means; 1. An information medium issuing apparatus comprising: a control means for reading out the issuance instruction information stored in the storage means according to the order of priority, and controlling the information medium to be issued in the order of priority.