JPH04172793A - Maintenance system in key telephone system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily identify a specific telephone set by providing a table to which a specific telephone terminal set is registered and a means accessing the table based on request information from an optional telephone terminal set to a master set so as to control a general telephone terminal set. CONSTITUTION:When a maintenance personnel depresses an identification key 22 of a general telephone terminal set 16 to identify a special telephone terminal set, the general telephone terminal set 16 sends a specific telephone terminal set identification code to a key telephone set. On the other hand, the key telephone set upon the receipt of any code from the general telephone terminal set 16 stores the telephone terminal set number of the general telephone terminal set 16 sending the code to a storage device 12 tentatively. When the key telephone set analyzes the content of the received code and recognizes the code to be a specific telephone terminal set identification code, the specific telephone terminal set number is extracted from the specific telephone terminal set registration area of the storage device 12. Thus, the specific telephone terminal set is easily identified from all general telephone terminal sets.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a maintenance method for a button telephone device, and particularly to a maintenance operation management method for managing station data and the like.

[Prior Art 1 Conventionally, maintenance operation management methods related to maintenance methods for key telephone devices include a first method using an input/output device such as a maintenance console, and a second method using a telephone terminal. . In the case of the first method, which uses a dispatch device such as a maintenance console, an input/output device is required, which increases the amount of hardware and increases the cost. The second method is used for maintenance, operation and management.

In order to prevent station data from being rewritten due to erroneous operations when performing maintenance and operation management using telephone terminals, maintenance and operation management from ordinary telephone terminals (hereinafter referred to as ordinary telephone terminals) is regulated. Maintenance, operation and management is permitted only for certain telephone terminals (hereinafter referred to as "specific telephone terminals"). In this way, in order to perform maintenance operation management from a specific telephone terminal (maintenance telephone terminal), it is necessary to identify which telephone terminal is the specific telephone terminal. Conventional methods for identifying specific telephone terminals include recording the specific telephone terminal number on the station data sheet, and installing the specific telephone terminal in an easily accessible location so that maintenance personnel can simply identify the location. He used a method of remembering.

Further, in the case of the conventional maintenance operation management method using a specific telephone terminal, there is a problem that maintenance cannot be performed when the specific telephone terminal is in use.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] With the above-described conventional technology, there is a possibility that the station data sheet may be lost or the maintenance person may forget it. In this way, when a specific telephone terminal becomes unknown, it is necessary to search one by one from a large number of telephone terminals in order to identify the specific telephone terminal.

Furthermore, even if a specific telephone terminal has been identified, maintenance cannot be performed while the specific telephone terminal is in use.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a maintenance method for a button telephone device that allows a user to easily identify a specific telephone by operating a general telephone terminal, and to designate a general telephone as a specific telephone. It is in.

[Means to solve the problem]

The present invention provides a maintenance method for a button telephone device in which data stored in a main device is maintained by a specific telephone terminal device, and the main device includes a table for registering specific telephone terminal devices, and a table for registering specific telephone terminal devices. and means for accessing the table based on request information from.

[Effect]

The main device is provided with a table for registering specific telephone terminal devices, and is provided with means for reading and rewriting the table in accordance with requests from any telephone terminal device. This makes it possible to easily check the status (installation location, etc.) of a specific telephone terminal device for maintenance from any telephone terminal device. Furthermore, by newly registering data in the table, any telephone terminal can be set as a maintenance telephone terminal.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the button telephone device of the present invention.

In the figure, a communication path switch 10 accommodates a specific telephone terminal 15, a general telephone terminal 16, and an audio unit 14. And these communication path switches 10,
The specific telephone terminal 15, the general telephone terminal 16, and the audio unit 14 are controlled by the central processing unit 11. The central processing unit 11 is connected to the control system bus 13, and executes the program by accessing the storage device 12, which is also connected to the control system bus 13.
It controls the entire button telephone device.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing the specific telephone terminal 15 and general telephone terminal 16 shown in FIG.

In FIG. 2, the specific and general telephone terminals 15 and 16 have a display 20 for displaying various numbers, a designation key 21 for specifying the specific telephone terminal, and a designation key 21 for identifying the specific telephone terminal. identification key 22 and a dial key 23.

FIG. 3 shows a specific telephone terminal registration area that is registered when the general telephone terminal 16 is designated as a specific IT talk terminal, and is stored in the storage device 12.

In this embodiment, the registration area for specific telephone terminals is for five telephone terminals, but the size of this registration area is not particularly limited.

FIG. 4 shows how to receive an instruction code from a general telephone terminal,
2 is a flowchart of the button telephone device when specifying or identifying a specific telephone terminal. The operation for specifying or identifying a specific telephone terminal will be described below with reference to FIG.

First, when a maintenance person presses the identification key 22 (Fig. 2) of the general telephone terminal 16 to identify a specific telephone terminal,
The general telephone terminal 16 transmits a specific telephone terminal identification code requesting identification of the specific telephone terminal to the button telephone device. On the other hand, when the button telephone device receives some code from the general telephone terminal 16 (Step 401), it temporarily stores the accommodation position (or telephone terminal number) of the general telephone terminal 16 that sent the code in the storage device 12. 5te
p402), analyze the content of the received code (Ste
p403). When the button telephone device recognizes that the received code is a specific telephone terminal identification code, it extracts the specific telephone terminal number from the specific telephone terminal registration area stored in the storage device 12 (Step 40).
4).

In this embodiment, the specific telephone terminal registration area includes the specific telephone terminal number r200 as shown in FIG.
It is assumed that J is registered. Next, the key telephone device determines whether or not it accommodates the audio unit 14 (Step 405).

If the voice unit is connected as a result of the determination, the specified telephone terminal number (r200J) extracted earlier should be notified to the voice unit 14 (step 406), and the maintenance person (who sent the specified telephone terminal identification code) General telephone terminal 1
6 and the voice unit 14 by controlling the communication path switch 10 (step 407), and controlling the voice unit 14 to send the specific telephone terminal number by voice message to the general telephone terminal 16 of the maintenance worker. Shiku5tep408
), and sends the character code of the specific telephone terminal number to the maintenance person's general telephone terminal 16, and displays the specific telephone terminal number ("200J") on the display 20 (FIG. 2) as shown in FIG. Display as shown in (Step 409), and
If it is determined in 5tep 405 that the audio unit 14 is not connected, 5uep 409 is executed to display the specific telephone terminal number on the display 20 of the general telephone terminal 16 as shown in FIG. Next, the button telephone device determines whether or not to display the identification of the specific telephone terminal 15 in a calling signal or the like (Step 410). Either the maintenance personnel can register data indicating the specific telephone terminal and use this data, or the maintenance person can operate the general telephone terminal and request whether or not to display the specific telephone terminal. This is done according to the request information received from the telephone terminal. Then, when it is recognized in the determination at step 410 that there is an identification display of a specific telephone terminal, a confirmation signal such as a traffic signal is automatically sent to the previously extracted specific telephone terminal 15 (r200J) ( Step 411
). This allows the maintenance person to easily confirm the installation location of the specific telephone terminal. In addition, if the confirmation signal is not sent to the specified telephone terminal 15, maintenance is performed based on the telephone terminal number (r200J) of the specified telephone terminal 15 displayed on the display 20 of the general telephone terminal 16. A person searches for the installation location of the specific telephone terminal 15 using a telephone terminal number table or the like.

Next, a description will be given of the operation when a maintenance person specifies a general telephone terminal as a specific telephone terminal.

First, a maintenance person must use a general telephone terminal 16 (for example,
) as a specific telephone terminal, general telephone terminal 1
6 (r201J), press the designation key 21 (Fig. 2). Then, the general telephone terminal 16 transmits a specific telephone terminal designation code requesting designation as a specific telephone terminal to the button telephone device. On the other hand, the button telephone device receives some code (step 5 401), and temporarily stores the accommodation position (or telephone terminal number) of the general telephone terminal 16 that sent the code in the storage device 12 (step 4).
02) Analyze the content of the received code (Step 4)
03). Here, when it is recognized that the received code is a specific telephone terminal designation code, the specific telephone terminal registration area (Fig. 3) stored in the storage device 12 is read out, and the specific telephone terminal is placed in an empty area. Telephone terminal number r2 of the general telephone terminal 16 (r201J) that sent the designated code
01J is registered (Step 412). Then, in order to confirm that the general telephone terminal 16 that pressed the designated key has been registered as a specific telephone terminal, the telephone terminal number of the registered general telephone terminal is displayed (Step 4).
13). In addition, FIG. 6 shows that when the general telephone terminal 15 is already registered as a specific telephone terminal, the general telephone terminal 16 (r201J) is further registered in the specific telephone terminal area by pressing the designated key. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the state when the general telephone terminal 16 (r201J)
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a display displayed on the display 20 (FIG. 2) for confirmation when a telephone terminal is registered as a specific telephone terminal.

Through the above operations, a specific telephone terminal can be designated or identified.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, in a button telephone device, a specific telephone terminal (maintenance telephone terminal) can be easily identified from all the general telephone terminals, and can be set on the maintenance telephone terminal, thereby improving serviceability for maintenance personnel.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the button telephone device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an outline of the telephone terminal, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the registration of a general telephone terminal as a specific telephone terminal. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of this embodiment, and FIGS. 5 and 6 are specific telephone terminal registration areas showing examples of registration states of specific telephone terminals. The area configuration diagrams, FIGS. 7 and 8, are diagrams showing examples when specific telephone terminal numbers are displayed on the display. 1o...Call path switch 11...Central processing unit (CPU) 12...Storage device (MEM) 13...Control system bus 14...Audio unit 15...Specific telephone terminal 16...・General telephone terminal 20... Display 21... Designation key 22... Identification key 23... Dial key

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a maintenance method for a button telephone device in which data stored in a main device is maintained by a specific telephone terminal device, the main device includes a table in which specific telephone terminal devices are registered; 1. A maintenance method for a button telephone device, comprising: means for accessing the table based on request information from any telephone terminal device. 2. A claim characterized in that the telephone terminal device is equipped with an input means for inputting a request to read the contents of the table, and a display means for displaying the contents read by the main device based on the request. Maintenance method for the button telephone device according to item 1. 3. The maintenance method for a button telephone device according to claim 1, wherein the telephone terminal device is provided with input means for registering in the table. 4. In a maintenance method for a button telephone device in which data stored in the main device is maintained by a specific telephone terminal device, there is a request from the telephone terminal device to display the telephone terminal number registered as a specific telephone terminal device. If
A maintenance method for a button telephone device, characterized in that a telephone terminal number registered for the telephone terminal device is visually or audibly displayed. 5. When there is a request to display a telephone terminal number registered as a specific telephone terminal device, after displaying the request, the specific registered telephone terminal device transmits an audible tone for confirmation. 5. A maintenance method for a button telephone device according to claim 4.