JPH05136930A - Facsimile automatic delivery system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the efficient facsimile automatic delivery system for data in which added/updated data are delivered automatically to a facsimile equipment even without a repetitive retrieval request by allowing newest storage data to correspond to a retrieval condition from the user system even when addition or renewal is caused in future to the storage data and delivering data corresponding to the retrieval request to the facsimile equipment. CONSTITUTION:When addition or renewal is caused to storage data of a data storage file 13, a revision information management means 15 manages revision information representing it. When a retrieval is requested from a user system 30, the data are stored in a retrieval request file 14 and a revision information retrieval means 11 retrieves and extracts newest storage data by using revision information as a key according to the stored retrieval request and the extracted storage data are sent automatically to a facsimile equipment 31 of the user system 30 by a communication means 17.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile automatic distribution system for storing data by a computer and transmitting the corresponding data in response to a search request from a user system including a facsimile machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, a data service has been carried out in which a database stored by a computer is received by a plurality of users via a communication line, a search request is accepted, and a result is transmitted. In this case, when the search request from the user is received, the data corresponding to the search condition in the stored data is transmitted to the facsimile device.

[0003]

The above-mentioned conventional facsimile automatic distribution system only transmits the corresponding data at the time of receiving the search request from the user.
In the future, there is a problem that the data corresponding to the search request in the accumulated data changed due to the addition / update of data cannot be transmitted, and when the user cannot obtain the necessary data by the search request, There is a problem that the search request must be repeatedly made again manually.

In view of the above problems, the present invention delivers data corresponding to a search request to a facsimile by adding / updating future data as a search condition of a user.
An object of the present invention is to provide an efficient automatic facsimile data delivery system for automatically delivering added / updated data to a facsimile device without making repeated search requests.

[0005]

A facsimile automatic distribution system according to the present invention is a facsimile automatic distribution system in which data is accumulated by a computer and corresponding data is transmitted in response to a search request from a user system including a facsimile machine. Then, a search condition management unit that manages the search request as search condition information, a change information management unit that manages change information of the data when the accumulated data is added or updated, and a search for the change information It has a change information retrieval means for retrieving at regular time intervals based on the condition information, and a communication means for transmitting data corresponding to the retrieved change information to the facsimile machine of the user system that has requested the retrieval.

[0006]

The change information management means manages the change information to the effect that the accumulated data is added or updated. Therefore,
When there is a search request from the user system, the change information search means searches and extracts the latest accumulated data according to the change information, and the communication means automatically transmits the extracted accumulated data to the facsimile machine of the user system.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an automatic facsimile distribution system of the present invention. In this example,
It is composed of an automatic distribution center 10 and a user system 30 connected to the automatic distribution center 10 via a communication network 20. The CPU 11 of the automatic distribution center 10 controls the data storage file 13, the search request file 14, the change information file 15, the facsimile control device 16, and the search terminal communication device 17 in accordance with the control program stored in the main storage device 12. The user system 30 is
A fax machine 31 (hereinafter referred to as FAX 31) and a search terminal 32 are provided.
Are the facsimile control device 16 and the search terminal communication device 17 of the automatic distribution center 10 via the communication network 20, respectively.
It is connected to the.

The data storage file 13 is shown in FIG.
As shown in (a), a record of image data is stored corresponding to the record ID number, and a keyword and an attribute Z _i (i = 1, 2,
, N) are stored. The search request file 14 stores the keyword requested by the search terminal 32 for each record and the attribute Z _i (for example, Z _i > 10) of the record.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. When a search request including a predetermined search condition is issued from the search terminal 32 of the user system 30, the search terminal communication device 17 registers the search condition in the search request file 14. When the search terminal 32 and the automatic distribution center 10 add or update a record in the data storage file 13, the record ID number of the added or updated record is registered in the change information file 15. CPU1
1 stores the data storage file 13 in order to detect the record corresponding to the record ID number stored in the change information file 15 by using the search condition stored in the search request file 14 as a key every time a predetermined time has elapsed. The search and change information file 15 is the record I of all the records of the data storage files 13 that are scheduled to be requested by the search terminal 32.
Stores the D number. Further, with the passage of time, the addition and update of the data storage file 13 related to the request of the search terminal 32 is stored with the record ID number of the added or changed record instead of the old record ID number. It

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. When a search request is issued from the search terminal 32 with a search condition including a keyword and an attribute, the keyword and the attribute are stored in the search request file 14. Thereafter, the stored data in the data storage file 13 indicated by the record ID number stored in the change information file 15 is searched according to the search condition stored in the search request file 14 at regular time intervals, and the record ID corresponding to the search condition is searched. Is detected and a record including the corresponding image data is extracted. The extracted record is automatically transmitted to the FAX 31 of the user system 30 via the facsimile control device 16 and the communication network 20.

[0011]

As described above, according to the present invention, the latest accumulated data is searched by the change information managed by the change information managing means, and the searched accumulated data is transmitted to the communication means by facsimile. There is an effect that the latest accumulated data can be automatically and efficiently transmitted by facsimile to the user system.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an automatic facsimile delivery system of the present invention.

2A is a data storage file 1 of the embodiment of FIG.
It is a figure which shows the memory content of 3. (B) is a diagram showing the storage contents of the search request file 14 of the embodiment of FIG.
(C) is a diagram showing the stored contents of the change information file 15 of the embodiment of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Automatic Distribution Center 11 CPU 12 Main Storage Device 13 Data Storage File 14 Search Request File 15 Change Information File 16 Facsimile Control Device 17 Search Terminal Communication Device 20 Communication Network 30 User System 31 FAX 32 Search Terminal

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile automatic distribution system in which data is stored by a computer and corresponding data is transmitted in response to a search request from a user system including a facsimile device, and search conditions for managing the search request as search condition information. Management means, a change information management means for managing change information of the data when the accumulated data is added or updated, and a change information search means for searching the change information at regular time intervals based on search condition information, A facsimile automatic distribution system, comprising: communication means for transmitting data corresponding to the retrieved change information to a facsimile device of a user system that has requested retrieval.