JPH0630051A - Communication information managing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To manage communication information and the statistical information of communication in unit of client terminal and to improve operability by registering, collecting, and storing the terminal communication information of a client terminal connected to a LAN, and notifying stored information to the client terminal. CONSTITUTION:Documents and client information are sent out of the client terminals 1-4 such as a workstation, etc., to a server device 10 via the LAW 50. Information sent to the device 10 is sent to a communication information managing part 12, and retrieval is applied to it. Retrieved communication information is arranged or updated by managing tables 13-15 at every client terminal information. The communication of the document, etc., is transmitted to a transmission destination(communication terminals 21-25) via a wide area network 20 by a transmission/reception part 11. In such a way, a waste operation to find out its own communication information from another communication information by a client can be omitted by handling the communication information and the statistical information of communication in unit of client terminal.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication information management system for allowing a server side to manage communication statistical information on a client terminal basis in, for example, a server / client type facsimile system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a server / client type communication system, communication and statistical information of communication have been configured to be managed in server units.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned prior art, since communication and statistical information are managed on a server-by-server basis, (1) in order for the client terminal side to see its own communication information, the server side You have to find out the communication information of yourself from among the communication information of many other client terminals by accessing the. (2) Since the statistical information of the communication is performed in server units, the statistical information of the client terminal you want There were drawbacks such as not knowing.

The present invention has been made in view of the drawbacks of the above-mentioned conventional example, and an object thereof is communication information that enables communication and communication statistical information management not by server but by client terminal. The point is to provide a management system.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the object, a communication information management system according to the present invention provides a communication between a client terminal connected to a LAN (local area network) and a terminal connected to a wide area network via the client terminal and the LAN. In the communication information management system having a server controlling the communication information, the server includes a registration unit that registers terminal information of the client terminal, a collection unit that collects communication information and statistical information of communication, and A storage unit that stores the statistical information separately for each client terminal and a notification unit that notifies the client terminal of the communication information and the communication statistical information stored by the storage unit are provided.

[0006]

According to this structure, in the server, the registration means registers the terminal information of the client terminal, the collection means collects the communication information and the statistical information of the communication, and the storage means collects the communication information and the statistical information of the communication from the client. The information is separately stored for each terminal, and the notification means notifies the client terminal of the communication information and the communication statistical information stored by the storage means.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a client / server communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 to 4 are client terminals such as personal computers and workstations. Each of these has client information. Reference numeral 50 represents a LAN. Further, 10 including 11 to 15 represents a server device. 11 is book C
A reference numeral 12 denotes a transmission / reception unit having a PU, a ROM, etc., and 12 is a system unit for managing communication information transmitted and received by the transmission / reception.
3 to 14 are tables of data of the communication information management unit. Reference numeral 20 denotes a wide area network (WAN) such as ISDN or telephone network, and 21 to 25 denote communication terminals that communicate with the server device 10 via the wide area network 20.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the transmitting / receiving unit 11 according to this embodiment. In the figure, 101 is a CPU, 1
Reference numeral 02 is a ROM, 103 is a RAM, and 104 is a FAX (facsimile) transmission / reception unit. FIG. 2 is a flow chart for explaining the details of the present invention in the operation of the client-server type communication system according to this embodiment. Client terminals 1 to 4 showing communication terminals such as facsimiles are connected to the server device 10 via a network such as a LAN 50, and communication terminals 21 to 25 are connected via a wide area network 20.
It is possible to communicate with.

First, the client terminals 1 to 1 shown in FIG.
It is assumed from 4 that the user of this terminal transmits a document or the like. In step 1 of FIG. 2, the user sends a transmission request together with the document and client information to the server 10 via the LAN 50. Information such as documents sent to the server 10 is sent to the destination communication terminals 21 to 25 via the wide area network 20 such as ISDN (Integrated Digital Communication Network) and telephone network.

In response to the transmission request sent to the server 10 in step 1, information such as a document and client terminal information is sent to the communication information management section 12, and in step 2, the client terminal information is searched. Step two
According to the client terminal information retrieved by, the communication information (document, document size, time, etc.) for the information such as the document is organized for each client terminal information in step 3.

In step 4, the statistical information for the communication information is updated for each client terminal information. Reference numerals 13 to 15 in FIG. 1 represent management tables of the information handled in steps 3 and 4. After the process of step 4 is performed, the transmitting / receiving unit 11 transmits the document or the like to the destination communication terminals 21 to 25 via the wide area network 20 (step 5).

When the client terminal requests the communication information and the communication statistical information, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 2, in step 6, the communication information management unit 12 acquires the communication information and the communication statistical information of the client terminal information. Send to client terminals 1-4. As explained above,
According to the present embodiment, the communication information and the communication statistical information can be performed for each client terminal, and the information can be immediately known by the request of the client.

The present invention may be applied to a system including a plurality of devices or an apparatus including a single device. Further, it goes without saying that the present invention can be applied to the case where it is achieved by supplying a program to a system or an apparatus.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The communication information and the communication statistical information can be performed on a client terminal basis, so that the client does not need to search for its own communication information from other communication information, and the communication statistical information is the statistical information of the client terminal itself. The effect of being able to understand is obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a client-server communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the client / server communication system in the present embodiment.

3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a transmission / reception unit 11 of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-4 Client Terminal 10 Server Device 11 Transmitter / Receiver 12 Communication Information Management 13-13 Data Table 20 Wide Area Network 21-25 Communication Terminal 50 LAN 101 CPU 102 ROM 103 RAM 104 FAX Transmitter / Receiver

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A communication information management system having a client terminal connected to a LAN (local area network) and a server for controlling communication between the client terminal and a terminal connected to a wide area network via the LAN. In the server, the server stores registration information for registering terminal information of the client terminal, collection means for collecting communication information and statistical information of communication, and stores the communication information and statistical information of communication separately for each client terminal. A communication information management system, comprising: a storage unit for storing the communication information and a communication unit for notifying the client terminal of the communication information and the communication statistical information stored by the storage unit.