JPH05327866A - External designation method for multi-function telephone set via electronic exchange - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a method designating a multi-function telephone set from an external computer without being affected of difference from hardware configuration of an electronic exchange. CONSTITUTION:An identification number to identify multi-function telephone sets 23,...,24 is given to data representing the multi-function telephone sets 23,...,24 in an electronic exchange 11 and when the identification number is set from an external computer 12 to the electronic exchange 11, multi-function telephone sets 23,...,24 corresponding to the sent identification number are selected by the electronic exchange 11 when an identification number is sent from the external computer 12 to the electronic exchange 11.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for externally designating a multi-function telephone set via an electronic exchange, which designates a multi-function telephone set connected to an electronic exchange using an external computer connected to the electronic exchange.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a large number of telephones are to be used efficiently in a premises, a dedicated exchange system is used. As shown in FIG. 1, this system uses analog telephones 21, ..., 22 ,. And a multifunction telephone 23,
The external computer 12 is connected to the electronic exchange 11 to which 24 are connected. The external computer 12 is used to control the display of the multifunction telephones 23, ..., 24.

On the other hand, each of the multifunction telephones 23, ..., 24 is, for example, one of them (multifunctional telephone 23), as shown in FIG.
1 to 236, the extension number 1000 is assigned to the key switch 231 and the extension number 1100 is assigned to the key switch 232 (the same applies to the other key switches 233 to 236. Different extension numbers are assigned). That is, a plurality of extension numbers are usually assigned to one multifunction telephone 23. On the other hand, a plurality of multifunction telephones may correspond to the same extension number.

When a plurality of multi-function telephones correspond to the same extension number, the external computer 12 to the electronic exchange 1
1 by sending an instruction to the multifunction telephone 23, ...
.., 24 cannot be used as a method for instructing the target multifunction telephones 23 ,. Therefore, conventionally, as a method of designating the multifunction telephones 23, ..., 24,
The slot number indicating the insertion position of the I / F card 113 to which the multifunction telephones 23, ..., 24 are connected and the position in the I / F card 113 are used.

[0005]

However, since the designation method of the multifunction telephones 23, ..., 24 described above is the designation method based on the hardware configuration such as the slot number, the model of the electronic exchange 11 is different. In this case, since the hardware configuration is different, the control program of the external computer 12 (the program that controls the multi-function telephones 23, ..., 24) is different from the program corresponding to the difference in the hardware configuration of the electronic exchange 11. Had to be done.

The electronic exchange 11 is an I / F card 11
Correspondence between the data (slot number etc.) related to the hardware such as 3 and the data (extension number etc.) concerning the multi-function telephones 23, ..., 24 is held inside as configuration data. The multifunctional telephones 23, ..., 24 are selected based on the stored configuration data. Therefore, when the connection of the multi-function phones 23, ..., 24 is changed, it is necessary to change the configuration data on the electronic exchange 11 side and the control program on the external computer 12 side at the same time. However, there was a problem that it was difficult to adjust the schedule for the changes of both parties.

The present invention was devised to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is an electronic exchange capable of designating a multifunction telephone without being affected by a difference in the hardware configuration of the electronic exchange. It is to provide a method for externally designating a multi-function telephone via the.

[0008]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, an external designation method for a multifunction telephone via an electronic exchange according to the present invention is a method for designating a multifunction telephone connected to an electronic exchange to an external telephone connected to the electronic exchange. It is applied to the designation method using a computer, and in the electronic exchange, the identification number that identifies this multifunction telephone is given to the data indicating the multifunction telephone, and the identification number is sent from the external computer to the electronic exchange to identify it. Based on the numbered data, the electronic exchange is caused to select the multifunction telephone corresponding to the identification number sent from the external computer.

[0009]

In order to make the description below easier to understand, it is assumed that when an external computer designates a multifunction telephone, the operation instruction associated with the designation is the display of characters on the liquid crystal display unit (the present invention is based on this liquid crystal display). Is not limited to the display of the characters, for convenience of explanation, it is merely assumed).

The external computer sends, to the electronic exchange, an identification number designating a specific multifunction telephone from a number of multifunction telephones and a character string to be displayed to the electronic exchange. The electronic exchange to which the identification number and the character string are given selects the multifunction telephone corresponding to the given identification number based on the data to which the identification number is given, and the characters to be displayed on the selected multifunction telephone. Send a column.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a system for telephone exchange and the like used in an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, an electronic exchange 11 includes a main processor 111 for controlling liquid crystal display and telephone exchange processing, which will be described in detail later, and I / F cards 112, 113 bidirectionally connected to the main processor 111. , 22 are connected to the I / F card 112, a plurality of analog telephones 21, ..., 22 which are terminal devices, and the I / F card 113 includes a plurality of multifunction telephones 23. , ..., 24 are connected as terminal devices.

The main processor 111 has an RS-
The external computer 12 is bidirectionally connected via a communication line of 232C.
The data for instructing the liquid crystal display control of 3, ..., 24 are transmitted to the main processor 111.

Since all of the multifunction telephones 23, ..., 24 described above have the same configuration, the configuration of the panel portion of the multifunction telephones 23 ,. An outline of only the multifunction telephone 23 will be shown in FIG.

The panel portion 238 is provided with a plurality of key switches (only the six key switches 231 to 236 are shown in FIG. 2, and the other key switches are not shown) and the rectangle is provided. A liquid crystal display unit 237 made of a flat LCD is attached.

The multifunction telephones 23, ...
4, the assignment of extension numbers will be described with reference to FIG.

The extension number 1000 is assigned to the key switch 231 of the multi-function telephone 23, and the extension number 1100 is assigned to the key switch 232. The extension number 1000 is assigned to the key switch 241 of the multifunction telephone 24, and the extension number 1300 is assigned to the key switch 242. That is, the extension number 1000 is assigned to both of the two multifunction telephones 23 and 24. Further, each of the multi-function phones 23 and 24 is a phone corresponding to a plurality of extension numbers.

In the description given with reference to FIG.
Multifunctional telephones 23 and 24 are the same I / F card 1
Although it has been illustrated and described as being connected to 13, the multi-function telephone 23 is connected to the I / F card inserted in the slot number 8 in the following.
The multi-function telephone 24 has the I inserted in the slot number 5.
The description will be given assuming that it is connected to the / F card.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration data stored in the electronic exchange 11.

The configuration data stored in the main processor 111 and which describes the multi-function phones 23, ..., 24 are stored in all the multi-function phones 2 connected.
Group number (41
Number) and an intra-group number (indicated by 42), a slot number (43) indicating the insertion position of the connected I / F card and a position within the I / F card. It is composed of data indicating the numerical values of the in-card position (44) and the extension number (45) assigned to the key switch.

For the multi-function telephone 23, the specific numerical values of these data values are, as shown at 31 in FIG. 4, a group number of 1 and a group number of 1, a slot number of 8, and a card position. Is 5,
The assigned extension numbers are 1000 and 11
It is 00. As for the multi-function telephone 24, as shown in FIG. 32, the group number is 1,
The group number is 2, the slot number is 5, the card position is 2, and the extension numbers are 1000 and 1300. Below, a data group corresponding to each of the other multifunction telephones is described.

As described above, the identification number is a logical value that does not depend on the hardware, unlike the slot number or the value inside the card, which is a value that depends on the hardware of the electronic exchange 11. There is.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration data of the multifunction telephone stored in the electronic exchange 11.

The external computer 12 uses the multifunction telephones 23, ..., 2 as data to be used for designating the multifunction telephones 23, ..., 24 connected to the electronic exchange 11.
Physical position data 51 (slot number 511 and in-card position 51
2), data 52 indicating the attribute of each of the multifunction telephones 23, ..., 24 (data 5 indicating the number of key switches 5
21 and data 522) indicating whether or not the liquid crystal display unit is provided,
It has, as data, data 53 indicating an extension number corresponding to each key switch and an identification number 54 (group number 541 and in-group number 542) indicating each multifunction telephone 23, ..., 24. The multi-functional telephones 23, ..., 24 also have the same data except the physical position data 51.

Among these data in the electronic exchange 11, the external computer 12 has the following data. That is, the attribute data 52 of the telephone set, the data 53 indicating the extension number corresponding to each key switch, and the identification number 5
It is 4. These data are, for example, the multifunction telephone 23.
About, Yes, 1000, 1100, ..., 1, 1
(Indicated by 55). Also, these values are
In the electronic exchange 11, the value is the same as the value corresponding to each of the configuration data described corresponding to the multifunction telephone 23 (excluding the telephone attribute data 52).

The operation of the system having the above configuration will be described below.

When a character string is displayed on the multi-function telephone whose group number of the identification number is 1, the external computer 12
The instruction shown in FIG. 6 is sent from the electronic exchange 11 to the electronic exchange 11.

This instruction is of the type 61 of instruction and the identification number 6
2 and the display content 63, the command type 61 indicates that it is a liquid crystal display "DISPLA.
Y ”. The identification number 62 for designating the multi-function telephone is "entire group 1" consisting only of the group number designating the group. In addition, the character string indicating the display content 63 is ““ Planning meeting from 13:00 on March 3 ”” (““ ”and“ ”” are data for delimiting the start and end of the character string). Is).

The electronic exchange 11 to which this instruction is given is
All of the logical multifunctional telephones having the group number 1 of the configuration data stored therein (the multifunctional telephones described as 31 in FIG. 4, and 3
2 is selected first, and the physical multifunctional telephone (slot number 8, in the card) whose connection is indicated by the slot number and the position in the card of the selected logical multifunctional telephone A multifunction telephone whose connection is indicated by position 5 (multifunction telephone 23 in FIG. 1), and a multifunction telephone whose connection is indicated by slot number 5 and position 2 in the card (multifunction telephone 24 in FIG. 1) Select as a target phone.

Then, the rear electronic exchange 11 controls the selected multifunction telephones 23 and 24 to display the character string 63. As a result, the multifunction telephone 2
The contents indicated by the character string 63 are displayed on the liquid crystal display portions 237 of Nos. 3 and 24.

When displaying a character string on a specific multi-function telephone, the external computer 12 sends the instruction shown in FIG. 7 to the electronic exchange 11.

Since the identification number in this instruction is a group number of 2 and an in-group number of 1, the electronic exchange 11 is a logic in which the group number of the configuration data is 2 and the in-group number is 1. A multifunctional telephone is selected, and the character string 64 is displayed on the physical multifunctional telephone whose connection is indicated by the slot number and the in-card position corresponding to this multifunctional telephone. As a result, the content indicated by the character string 64 is displayed on the liquid crystal display unit of the selected multifunction telephone.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the identification number is composed of two kinds of numbers, the group number and the in-group number. Both designation and individual designation can be performed.

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, and the kind of the instruction has been described only for the case of the instruction to be displayed on the liquid crystal display unit, but as other arbitrary instruction,
For example, the same can be applied to the case of a command for performing voice display by a speaker built in the multi-function phones 23, ..., 24.

In the instruction from the external computer 12 to the electronic exchange 11, as a method of designating the multifunction telephones 23, ..., 24, one group number, or one group number and one group number are used. Although the case has been described, other designation methods may be designation using a plurality of group numbers or designation using a plurality of combinations of group numbers and in-group numbers.

The multifunction telephones 23, ..., 24 can be applied to both analog multifunction telephones and digital multifunction telephones, and further, these two types of multifunction telephones can be mixed. The same can be applied to a system used later.

[0038]

According to the method of externally designating a multifunction telephone via the electronic exchange according to the present invention, an identification number for identifying the multifunction telephone is added to the data indicating the multifunction telephone in the electronic exchange. When the identification number is sent from the computer to the electronic exchange, the multifunctional telephone corresponding to the transmitted identification number is selected by the electronic exchange, so the external computer only uses the identification number when designating the multifunctional telephone. Therefore, it is possible to specify the multifunction telephone without being affected by the difference in the hardware configuration of the electronic exchange.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a system for telephone exchange and the like used in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an outline of a configuration of a panel unit of a multi-function telephone.

FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory diagram for explaining extension number allocation of the multifunction telephone.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing configuration data stored in an electronic exchange.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing configuration data of a multi-function telephone stored in an electronic exchange.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing commands sent from an external computer.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing an instruction sent from an external computer.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 electronic exchange 12 external computer 23, ..., 24 multifunction telephone

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A designation method for designating a multi-function telephone connected to an electronic exchange by using an external computer connected to the electronic exchange, wherein data indicating the multi-function telephone is stored in the electronic exchange in the electronic exchange. Gives an identification number that identifies the function phone,
Sending the identification number from the external computer to the electronic exchange, and causing the electronic exchange to select a multifunctional telephone corresponding to the identification number sent from the external computer, based on the data to which the identification number is added. An external designation method for a multi-function telephone via an electronic exchange characterized by the above.