JPH05122415A - Repeating facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a repeating facsimile equipment capable of storing a document, whose repeating fails, and transmitting the stored document to another facsimile without reread of the document by the indication from an external telephone set. CONSTITUTION:In a repeating facsimile 14, a transmission indication signal detecting circuit 21 detects the document number and the destination of the document from a transmission indication signal. A destination management part 22 requests a document memory 32 of a repeating communication control part 23 to rewrite the destination of the document corresponding to the detected document number with the detected destination. The repeating communication control part 23 consists of a communication part 31, the document memory 32, and a control part 33 and receives the request of the destination management part 22 to rewrite the destination of the request document, thus performing the repeating communication control.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a relay facsimile apparatus capable of accumulating a document which has failed to be relayed, and in particular, having a function of retransmitting a stored document which has failed to relay to another facsimile by an instruction from an external telephone. The present invention relates to a relay facsimile machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a relay facsimile apparatus of this type, for a document which has failed to be relayed due to a failure of a receiving facsimile or the like, the destination of another facsimile for alternative reception is designated and the document is read again from the facsimile and transmitted. Was.

[0003]

However, in the above-described conventional relay facsimile apparatus, a document that has failed to be relayed due to a failure of the receiving facsimile or the like is transmitted from the transmission fax machine again to another facsimile which performs alternative reception. Therefore, there is a drawback that it takes time to re-read the document and extra transmission time is required to re-send the read data.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and even when the relay fails, it is possible to omit the trouble of reading the document in the transmission facsimile again and reduce the transmission time for retransmitting the document. It is an object of the present invention to provide a relay facsimile apparatus that can be used.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A relay facsimile apparatus according to the present invention is a relay facsimile apparatus capable of accumulating a document whose relay has failed, and a transmission instruction signal detection circuit for detecting a document number and a document destination from a transmission instruction signal. , A destination management unit that outputs a request signal requesting rewriting of the destination of the document corresponding to the document number detected by the transmission instruction signal detection circuit, and relay communication that receives the request signal and rewrites the destination of the corresponding document And a control unit.

[0006]

In the present invention, when the relay fails due to the failure of the receiving facsimile transmitted from the relay facsimile, the transmission instruction signal is sent from the transmitting facsimile to the relay facsimile. Then, the transmission instruction signal detection circuit of the relay facsimile detects the document number and the document destination from the transmission instruction signal. Then, the destination management unit outputs a request signal for rewriting the destination of the document corresponding to the detected document number to the detected document destination, and the relay communication control unit executes this rewriting. As a result, the document can be transmitted to another receiving facsimile which has not failed without reading the document from the transmitting facsimile again and retransmitting it.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a relay facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The relay facsimile apparatus 14 of this embodiment includes a transmission instruction signal detection circuit 21, a destination management unit 22, and a relay communication control unit 23.
Further, the relay communication control unit 23 includes a communication unit 31, a document memory 32, and a control unit 33. The telephone 10 and the transmitting facsimile 11 are connected to the relay facsimile apparatus 14 via a line 41, and the receiving facsimiles 12 and 13 are connected to a line 42.

FIG. 2 is a relay facsimile apparatus 1 of this embodiment.
4 is an example of a transmission instruction signal for accepting No. The transmission instruction signal consists of numeric data and character data. The numeric data has a document number and a document destination, and the document number represents a registration number for identifying the document on the document memory. The address represents the facsimile telephone number of the document transmission destination. Further, the character data includes “*”, “* # *”, and “##”, and the “*” signal represents a delimiter signal for numerical data. The "* ##" signal represents a document transmission request signal.
“##” represents the end of the transmission data.

Next, the relay facsimile apparatus 1 of this embodiment
The operation of No. 4 will be described with reference to FIG. Storage of Relay Document Consider a case where a document is transmitted from the transmitting facsimile 11 to the receiving facsimile 12 through the relay facsimile 14.

When the relay facsimile 14 receives an incoming call, the communication section 31 of the relay communication control section 23 analyzes the received signal and sends the received relay document and the destination to the document memory 32. Next, the communication unit 31 calls the destination of the receiving facsimile 12. Further, the communication section 31 confirms that the receiving side and the line 42 are connected, and then transmits the relay document stored in the document memory 32. In this case, if communication fails due to the failure of the receiving facsimile 12, the relay facsimile 1
4 notifies the transmitting facsimile 11 that the relay communication has failed. Transmission of Accumulated Document The operator of the transmission facsimile 11 having received the notification of the relay failure from the relay facsimile 14 transmits a document transmission request signal, a transmission instruction signal composed of the document number of the transmission document, a destination, etc. in the procedure shown in FIG. send. Here, the facsimile is sent as another facsimile 13 for receiving the address as an alternative.

On the other hand, when the relay facsimile 14 receives this transmission instruction signal, the communication section 3 of the relay communication control section 23 receives the transmission instruction signal.
In step 1, the received signal is analyzed, and the transmission instruction signal sent after the line connection is sent to the transmission instruction signal detection circuit 21. The transmission instruction signal detection circuit 21 detects the document number and the document destination from the transmitted transmission instruction signal and notifies the destination management unit 22 of the document number and the document destination. The destination management unit 22 sends a rewriting request signal for the destination of the document corresponding to the notified document number to the relay communication control unit 23.
Send to. The control unit 33 of the relay communication control unit 23,
Upon receiving the rewriting request signal from the destination management unit 22, it issues an instruction to rewrite the destination of the requested document number to the document memory 32. The document memory 32 rewrites the destination of the instructed document number and notifies the control unit 33.

The control unit 33 sends to the communication unit 31 an instruction to send the document whose address has been rewritten. Communication unit 31
Retrieves the designated document destination from the document memory 32 and calls the destination. Further, after confirming that the receiving side and the line 42 are connected, the instructed stored document is transmitted. In this way, the document stored in the relay facsimile 14 can be transmitted to another receiving facsimile 13 other than the defective receiving facsimile 12.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Documents that failed to be relayed due to a failure of the receiving facsimile can be stored, and the stored documents can be sent to another facsimile that performs alternate reception by operating from an external telephone. Can be omitted, and the transmission time for resending the document can be reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a relay facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing a format of a transmission instruction signal applied to this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10: Telephone 11, 12, 13, 14; Facsimile 21; Transmission instruction signal detection circuit 22; Destination management unit 23; Relay communication control unit 31; Communication unit 32; Document memory 33; Control unit 41, 42; Line

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A transmission instruction signal detection circuit for detecting a document number and a document destination from a transmission instruction signal and a document detected by the transmission instruction signal detection circuit in a relay facsimile apparatus capable of accumulating a document that has failed to be relayed. A relay facsimile apparatus comprising: a destination management unit that outputs a request signal that requests rewriting of the destination of the document corresponding to the number; and a relay communication control unit that receives the request signal and rewrites the destination of the corresponding document. .