JPH05276355A - Facsimile mail equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain accurate communication charge management by describing a communication charge required for transmission of a text into a returned result notice. CONSTITUTION:The equipment is provided with a communication control section 1 which has a function of recognizing charge notice information being an information element in a release message received from an ISD network after transmission of a text when the section 1 is connected to the ISD network having the communication charge notice service and a main control section 2 which manages the charge notice information as one of sets of the communication management information and has a function of generating a result notice to a terminal equipment making a request of storage of the text to a facsimile document storage section 3 according to the content of the communication management information.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile mail device which is connected to an ISDN network and has a function of storing and exchanging facsimile messages.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional facsimile mail apparatus does not have a function of notifying a communication fee from the network in a network other than ISDN, and a facsimile mail indicating how much the communication fee is charged when a facsimile message is transmitted from the facsimile mail apparatus. The user of the terminal that stored the message in the device could not know.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional facsimile mail device, when the transmission result of the electronic message stored in the device is returned to the terminal in which the facsimile electronic message is stored, the information shown in the result notification is displayed. There is a problem that the communication charge required for transmission from the device is not included and accurate charge management cannot be performed.

[0004]

A facsimile mail apparatus according to the present invention has a function of returning the result of transmission of a message stored in a facsimile message storage / exchange function as a result notification to a terminal requesting the storage of a facsimile message. In the facsimile mail device, the value of the charge notification information, which is the information request in the release message received from the ISDN network after the transmission of the electronic message, is recognized when connected to the ISDN network supporting the charge notification service as an additional service. A communication control unit and a main control unit that manages the fee notification information as one piece of communication management information and creates a result notification to the requested terminal according to the content of the communication management information.

[0005]

The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram of a communication control procedure showing the operation of the present embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a format diagram of a release message of the communication control procedure of the present embodiment.

In this embodiment, when the ISDN network equipped with the communication charge notification service is connected, the IS is transmitted after the message is transmitted.
Communication control unit 1 having a function of recognizing the value of charge notification information which is an information element in a release message received from the DN network
And the main control unit 2 having the function of managing the charge notification information as one piece of communication management information and creating a result notification to the terminal that has requested the facsimile document storage unit 3 to store a message according to the contents of the communication management information. Have

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. In FIG. 2, the charge notification information from the ISDN network is included in the "release message". The charge notification information of FIG. 3 is added as an information element at the end of the message.

The facsimile message received from the request source terminal is stored in the facsimile document storage section 3 via the communication control section 1 and the main control section 2. Thereafter, the accumulated electronic message is transmitted to the designated destination via the communication control unit 1 according to the instruction from the main control unit 2. When transmitting to the designated destination, the communication sequence as shown in FIG. 2 is performed,
When the communication ends, the charge notification information shown in the format of FIG. 3 is added to the release message sent from the ISDN network. At this time, the communication control unit 1 recognizes the charge notification information, which is one of the information elements in the release message,
The contents are transferred to the main control unit 2. In the main control unit 2, the communication destination, document number, communication result,
In addition to the information such as the number of communication pages, the charge notification information 11 from the communication control unit 1 is added to create communication management information, which is stored in the communication management information storage unit 4. Further, the main control unit 1 creates a result notification based on the contents of the communication management information storage unit 4 and returns it via the communication control unit 1 to the facsimile terminal requesting the storage of the facsimile document.

[0009]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a telegram stored and connected to an ISDN network having a fee notification service is transmitted, a result notification of the contents including the fee notification information notified from the ISDN network is sent. By returning the message to the terminal requesting the storage of the message, accurate charging management can be performed in the terminal requesting the message storage.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram of a communication control procedure for explaining the operation of the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a format diagram of a release message of the communication control procedure of the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 communication control unit 2 main control unit 3 facsimile document storage unit 4 communication management information storage unit

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A charge notification service is an additional service in a facsimile mail device having a function of returning the result of transmission of a message stored in a facsimile message storage / exchange function as a result notification to a terminal requesting the storage of a facsimile message. Communication control unit that recognizes the value of the charge notification information, which is the information request in the release message received from the ISDN network after the transmission of the electronic message when connected to the ISDN network that supports the charge notification information. A facsimile mail apparatus, comprising: a main control unit that manages the information as one piece of information and creates a result notification to the requested terminal according to the contents of the communication management information.