JPH0445653A - Management system for facsimile information - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To unify management of document information and to make a document circulation job efficient by editing a communication document log for each document number via a relay management device every time state information of a document sent/received by a host facsimile equipment changes. CONSTITUTION:Relay management devices 4a, 4b are installed as tandem configuration in the system, a G4 facsimile equipment 5 is connected to the device 4a(4b) as a host facsimile equipment (FAX) and to general G3 FAX 7 as subordinate FAX via a communication network 6. The G4 FAX 5a receives a document including state information for each log from the G3 FAX 7a and informs the stored log to the relay management device 4a. The FAX 5a sends the document to the receiver G3 FAX 7b and informs relay log to the device 4a when the transmission is finished. Moreover, when the reception of the document is finished, the G4 FAX 5b informs a transmission end log to the device 4a via the relay management device 4b. The device 4a processes the complete information as the charging data and transfers the data to a host system. Through the constitution above, the document circulation job is made efficiently.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a facsimile information management method.

[Conventional technology]

In the conventional facsimile information management method, each facsimile terminal outputs the communication information independently managed in the form of a report, and the information is managed by manual aggregation or the like.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The conventional facsimile information management method described above is inefficient when facsimile terminals are installed over a wide area, as manually managing the management information at each facsimile terminal requires a lot of man-hours. It is true. Furthermore, it is extremely difficult to grasp the document status in a timely manner, and the billing process is delayed because the usage status of the public line used by each facsimile terminal cannot be managed all at once.
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SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a centralized management method for facsimile information that can centralize the management of textual information including lower-level facsimiles, efficiently perform document communication work, and further enhance the billing management system. be.

[Means to solve the problem]

The centralized facsimile information management system of the present invention notifies a relay management device of the status information of documents sent and received by a higher-level facsimile machine as a correspondence document log every time the status of the document transmitted and received by the upper-level facsimile machine changes, and the relay management device It has means for editing logs for each document number.

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. In the system of this embodiment, embedded relay pipes M4 are installed in a tandem configuration, and each relay management device 4 is connected to a G as an upper facsimile.
4 facsimile 5, and then connect G4 facsimile 5.
A general G3 facsimile 7 is sent as a lower-level facsimile via a communication network 6 such as a public telephone network or an in-house PBX network.
It is configured to connect with.

Status information is collected and edited for each log as follows. The document from the 03 facsimile 7a in Figure 1 is received by the 04 facsimile 5a, and the accumulated log is embedded in the relay pipe f4a.
Notify. The G4 facsimile 5a transmits the document to the receiving G3 facsimile 7b, and upon completion of transmission, notifies the relay management device 4a of the relay log. Further, when the G4 facsimile 5b finishes receiving the document, it notifies the transmission completion log to the embedded relay pipe W4a via the embedded relay pipe W4b.

The relay management device 14a processes the completion information regarding one document as billing data, and transfers the data to the host system 8. The host system 8 performs information processing based on the data.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention constructs a facsimile network system by introducing an upper-level facsimile machine and an embedded relay pipe W4, and converts facsimile status information into data, that is, EDP, so that documents including lower-level facsimile machines can be stored. Information management can be unified, document communication work can be carried out efficiently, and the billing management system can be further enhanced.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. 4... Relay management device, 5...G4 fax Li, ·····Communication network, 7...G3 facsimile Li -...Host system.

Claims (1)

[Claims] The upper facsimile notifies the relay management device of status information of documents transmitted and received by the upper facsimile machine as a correspondence log every time the status of the document is changed, and the relay management device edits the correspondence log for each document number. A management method for facsimile information.