JPH0626403B2 - Facsimile accumulation broadcasting device - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile accumulation broadcasting device that accumulates received image information and transmits it to a designated destination at a designated time, and particularly to a specific terminal with a large number of distributions. The present invention relates to a facsimile storing / broadcasting device that considers transmission to a facsimile.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a facsimile storage / broadcast device, for example, a facsimile document transmitted from a broadcast request facsimile terminal is temporarily stored and then delivered to a plurality of designated ordinary broadcast destination facsimile terminals. Are known. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of a facsimile broadcasting system to which such a facsimile storage broadcasting device is applied.

In FIG. 4, S is a facsimile storage broadcasting device (hereinafter referred to as a broadcasting device), and the broadcasting device S is connected to the circuit switching network A via a plurality of lines 1. Also, F
1, F2 ... are terminal facsimiles (hereinafter referred to as terminals), and terminals F1, F2 ... (hereinafter referred to as terminal F)
Are respectively connected to the circuit switching network A via the line 1.

The sender of the broadcast message sends a predetermined signal from the terminal F to the broadcast device S via the line 1 to establish the call and transmit the broadcast message. At that time, management information such as a broadcast destination, a sender, and a transmission time is input by a PB signal, an OMR sheet, or the like. The broadcast device S stores the broadcast message and stores and manages information such as a specified broadcast destination and transmission time. When the input of the electronic message is completed, the broadcast device S broadcasts the electronic messages accumulated at the specified transmission time to the specified broadcast destination. When the broadcast destination is in communication, the broadcast delivery is ended by performing the specified number of tries, and finally the broadcast delivery result is notified to the transmission source terminal to complete the processing of one electronic message.

There is known a technique in which a terminal having a very large number of distributions at the time of this broadcast distribution is preset as a specific terminal in a storage means inside the facsimile accumulation broadcast device. FIG. 5 shows the inside of the storage means in which this specific terminal is set.
In FIG. 5, the general affairs department and the personnel department of the destination terminal are designated as the specific terminals, and the transmission time is set to 20:00 and 17:00, respectively. Therefore, the transmission time is automatically set for the telegram designated as the address to the general affairs department or the human resources department (in this case, the telegram 1 to the telegram 3 addressed to the general affairs department is the transmission time 20:00, the telegram 2 addressed to the human resources department is The transmission time is set to 17:00.) FIG. 6 shows the sequence from the transmission source to the transmission to the destination terminal, and the transmission source terminal F1 transmits the message 1 at 10: as shown in FIG. At 00, a specific destination terminal general affairs department (this general affairs department has previously set the transmission time to 20:00 as a specific destination terminal. The same applies hereinafter) and sends it to the broadcasting device S, and the source terminal F2 Similarly, the telegram 2 is designated at the specific destination terminal general affairs department at 11:00 and transmitted. In this case, the broadcast device S immediately transmits the electronic message 1 and electronic message 2 to the destination terminal (general affairs department in this case) which is the specific destination terminal at 20:00.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing the flow from reception to transmission in the broadcast device S. In ST1, the destination is recognized whether the destination is the specific terminal. If it is not a specific terminal, the process proceeds to ST4, incorporates in the broadcast schedule, and is transmitted to the designated destination at the designated time. If it is a specific terminal, ST
In step 2, it is checked whether or not the predetermined delivery time has come for the particular terminal. If the delivery time has not arrived, S
It waits for a certain period of time at T3, and then enters ST2 again. When the delivery time is reached in this way, the process moves to ST4 and is transmitted to the specific end.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the case of the above-mentioned conventional configuration, since the transmission time of the electronic message addressed to the specific terminal is predetermined, the electronic message addressed to the specific terminal is earlier than the specified time, for example, now. When the user wants to send the message immediately, all the other messages stored in the broadcasting device S, which are addressed to the specific terminal, cannot be sent. This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 5. For example, when it is desired to immediately transmit the message 2 of the destination general affairs department, the message 1 and message 3 of the destination general affairs department must be canceled, and the message 1 is transmitted after the message 2 is transmitted. And, the telegram 3 had to be set again by designating the destination to the specific terminal. If the message addressed to the specific terminal is canceled by the broadcast device S for each message, it is possible to avoid canceling other messages already stored in the storage unit. However, even in this case, when the electronic message is not yet transmitted to the broadcast device S and is not yet stored in the storage unit in the broadcast device, and the user wants to immediately transmit it from the source terminal to the destination terminal In order to send a message to a specific terminal, it is necessary to cancel the message sent by the broadcasting device S and to immediately send it. I couldn't.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile storage broadcasting apparatus capable of transmitting to a specific terminal at an arbitrarily designated time.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above object, the transmission time can be arbitrarily designated even in the case of transmission to a specific destination terminal. The facsimile accumulation broadcasting apparatus of the present invention is a broadcast request terminal. A storage unit that stores a telegram including the broadcast destination information, the broadcast transmission time information, and the broadcast delivery manuscript transmitted from, and the broadcast destination information is a specific destination terminal and the broadcast transmission time is unspecified. A specific destination recognizing unit for identifying the fact that the broadcast transmission time of the corresponding electronic message is set to a predetermined broadcast transmission time and stored in the storage unit, and the broadcast delivery original document stored in the storage unit are associated with each other. And a transmitter for transmitting at the broadcast transmission time stored corresponding to the broadcast destination terminal stored therein.

Function For normal transmission to a specific destination terminal, a specific destination recognition unit determines a predetermined broadcast transmission time by transmitting to the facsimile accumulation broadcast device without specifying the transmission time at the broadcast request terminal. Then, it is transmitted from the transmission unit to the broadcast destination terminal. On the other hand, if you want to send at a transmission time different from the preset broadcast transmission time, specify the specific destination terminal and the broadcast time at the broadcast request terminal and send it to the broadcast device. Similarly to, when the designated broadcast time is reached, it is transmitted to the designated specific destination terminal. Therefore, when the broadcast requester wants to immediately deliver the transmitted message to the broadcast destination, the broadcast requester may specify the same broadcast transmission time, which is later than the transmission time.

Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. The facsimile storage / broadcast device includes a receiving unit 10 for receiving a message transmitted from a source terminal, an image information storage unit 11 for storing the message together with transmission designated time information for each designated destination, and this image information storage unit 11 Broadcast control unit 12 that reads out and outputs the electronic message stored in the specified time, and a transmission unit that transmits the output of the broadcast control unit 12 to the designated destination terminal.
13, a destination recognition unit 14 for recognizing destination information from an OMR sheet or PB signal, a delivery time, a destination information unit 15 for temporarily storing transmission result information such as the number of retries performed because the destination terminal is communicating, the same time When there is a transmission designation, a message additional information section 16 for adding information on presence / absence of priority such as preferential transmission, a schedule section 17 for scheduling according to priority information and time information, a clock 18 for outputting the current time The control unit 19 controls the entire apparatus.

The operation of the facsimile storage / broadcasting device having the above configuration will be described below. When the message is received by the receiving unit 10 from the source terminal, the destination recognizing unit 14 causes the OMR sheet or the PB.
Recognize the destination from the signal. This recognized destination is the control unit
The image information sent to the control unit 19 and received by the instruction of the control unit 19 and the transmission time thereof are stored in the image information storage unit 11 for each destination. This is schematically shown in FIG. 5, but is FIG. 5 described above.
In FIG. 5, message 1 to message 3 are stored in the general affairs department which is the specific transmission destination with the designated transmission time set to 20:00. As soon as the clock 18 shows 20:00, the image information storage unit 11
The electronic messages 1 to 3 are read out from and are sent to the broadcast control unit 12. At this time, the transmission priority of the message is set in the message additional information section 16, and the scheduling section 17 schedules the messages 1 to 3 based on the priority, and the broadcast control section 1
2. Transmitted to the destination terminal via the transmitter 13.

Next, a case in which a transmission source terminal transmits a telegram whose destination is specified to a specific terminal at the same time as transmission is described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is an operation sequence diagram showing a state in which transmission is performed at the same time as the transmission of the transmission source terminal to the specific terminal. In FIG. 2, the sender terminal F1 designates the message A as a destination of a specific terminal and
The message is transmitted to the broadcast device at 0:00, and the transmission source terminal F2 transmits the message B as an urgent message to the same specific terminal at 11:00. This telegram B is instructed to be processed as an urgent telegram by an OMR sheet or PB signal. The destination recognizing unit 14 recognizes the electronic message B as an urgent electronic message, outputs the message to the control unit 19, and instructs the scheduling unit 17 to immediately transmit the message to the control unit 19. On the other hand, the image information which is the body of the electronic message is stored in the image information storage unit 11. The broadcast control unit 12 is an image information storage unit.
The electronic message B stored in 11 is taken out and transmitted from the transmission unit 13 to the specified specific terminal. The above operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The destination is recognized in ST1, and it is determined in ST2 whether this destination is a specific terminal. When it is recognized that the destination is the specific terminal, it is determined in ST3 whether or not there is an urgent designation. If there is an urgent instruction, the broadcast scheduling is performed in ST4 so that the message is immediately transmitted. If there is no urgent instruction, the telegram is waited until the transmission time previously approved in ST5 and ST6, and when the transmission time comes, scheduling is performed in ST4 and transmission is performed in ST7. Note that the telegram determined to be not the specific terminal in ST2 is ST4 scheduling ST at the transmission time specified in the telegram.
Send at 7.

Note that the above example is a case of transmitting immediately after making a call, but it goes without saying that even a specific terminal can be transmitted at that time if the desired transmission time is designated by the OMR sheet or PB signal. .

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, even if it is a specific terminal, a sender terminal arbitrarily designates a transmission time so that a message addressed to a specific terminal can be sent immediately or at a desired time. Can be sent to. Further, since the transmission time can be specified for each message from the source terminal, it is not necessary to cancel all the messages addressed to the specific terminal as in the conventional case, and the desired transmission time can be easily set.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram showing the operation of the present embodiment, FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the operation of the present embodiment, FIG. 4 is a system diagram showing the relationship between a facsimile storage broadcasting device and terminals, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically showing the stored contents of the information storage unit, FIG. 6 is a sequence diagram showing the operation of the conventional apparatus, and FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing the operation of the conventional apparatus. 10 ... Receiving unit, 11 ... Image information storage unit, 12 ... Broadcast control unit, 13 ...
Sending unit, 14 ... Destination recognizing unit, 15 ... Destination information unit, 16 ... Message additional information unit, 17 ... Schedule unit, 18 ... Clock, 19 ... Control unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage unit for storing a telegram including broadcast destination information, broadcast transmission time information, and a broadcast delivery manuscript transmitted from a broadcast request terminal; and the broadcast destination information is a specific destination terminal. A specific destination recognition unit that identifies that the broadcast transmission time is unspecified, sets the broadcast transmission time of the corresponding message to a predetermined broadcast transmission time, and stores it in the storage unit; and a storage in the storage unit. And a transmitting unit for transmitting the received broadcast delivery original at the broadcast transmission time stored corresponding to the broadcast destination terminal stored correspondingly.