JPH08111708A - Abbreviated dial device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To prevent a wrong telephone number from being dialed by checking whether or not dial information after expansion exceeds the limited number of digits when an address is indicated and making the address indication ineffective when the limited number of digits is exceeded. CONSTITUTION: This device is provided with an abbreviated dial number expansion part 45 which reads an abbreviated dial number, indicated by an address indication part 41, out of an abbreviated dial information storage part 43 and expands it, a subdial retrieval part 46 which retrieves whether or not the expanded abbreviated dial number contains a subdial number, and a subdial number expanded digit number detection part 47 which detects the number of digits of the subdial number. Further, this device is provided with a total expanded dial digit number calculation part 48 which detects the total number of digits of address information, a digit number comparison part 49 which compares the total number of expanded digits with the predetermined number 50 of digits, an address indication registration part 51 which registers an address indication when the total number of expanded digits is less than the specific number 50 of digits, and an address indication invalidation part 52 which operates when the former number of digits is larger than the latter number of digits.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a speed dial device, and more particularly to a dial buffer (temporary storage unit for dial transmission) in which the number of digits of a speed dial number is temporarily stored when the telephone number is automatically called. The present invention relates to an abbreviated dial device that checks whether or not the capacity has exceeded the limit and prevents erroneous dialing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, telephone systems have come to be connected to not only telephones but also facsimile machines and various service machines. And, it is not uncommon that the number of digits of a telephone number called from a telephone or a facsimile machine exceeds 100 digits. For this reason,
If you try to speed dial these numbers,
The speed dial information storage unit has a large capacity. Therefore, a proposal has been made to reduce the capacity of the speed dial information storage unit by introducing a sub dial into the speed dial.

As prior art related to the present invention,
(1) Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-29551 and (2) Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-25
There are techniques disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 9658, (3) Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 62-18158, and the like. In the publication of (1) above, a common number such as a country code or area code is registered in advance in the one-touch key, and the corresponding one-touch key and the unique number are input when the abbreviated number is registered or a call is issued. By doing so, a technique is disclosed in which the number of duplicate operations is prevented from increasing in number registration.

In the publication of (2), the communication company number, the area code, the subscriber number, etc. are assigned to each one-touch key and registered, and these are combined to give an instruction of the destination, which is necessary. Accordingly, there has been proposed a communication device that simplifies the input of the destination code by adding a number with the ten keys.

Further, in the publication (3), a common data storage area for storing a common telephone number is provided, and each destination storage area includes data (pointer data) that points to the common data storage area. There is disclosed a technique in which the memory can be used efficiently and the number of registration of the partner subscriber number can be increased by using the non-common number data.

[0006]

However, in the speed dial device in which the sub dial is introduced to the speed dial, when the speed dial is expanded, the number of digits of the expanded telephone number is set to the dial buffer (dial transmission). If the capacity of the temporary storage) is exceeded, the excess dialed numbers are treated as invalid, and as a result, the dialed number instructed by the operator is not called, resulting in incorrect dialing. there were.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned problems of the prior art and to introduce a speed dial having a sub dial.
An object of the present invention is to provide an abbreviated dialing device which, when deployed, does not exceed the capacity of the dial buffer and cause false dialing.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 is a speed dial device including sub-dial information in speed dial information, wherein the speed dial information instructed by the destination instructing means is Means for determining whether or not the sub-dial information is included, and means for determining whether or not the number of digits after expansion exceeds a predetermined limit digit number when the speed dial information includes the sub-dial information And a means for invalidating the destination instruction when the number of digits after the expansion exceeds the limited number of digits.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, when the dial information waiting for a call includes the sub-dial information and the number of digits after the expansion exceeds the limit number of digits, the means for invalidating the call. According to the invention of claim 3, when the newly registered or changed speed dial information includes sub-dial information and the number of digits after the expansion exceeds the limited number of digits, According to another aspect of the present invention, which is provided with a means for rejecting new registration or change, the dial information already registered or waiting for calling includes sub dial information to be changed, and the number of digits after expansion is the limit. If the number of digits is exceeded,
The feature is that a means for suppressing the change of the sub-dial information is provided.

[0010]

According to the invention of claim 1, when the speed dial information for which the destination is designated is expanded, it is judged whether or not the number of digits exceeds a predetermined limit digit number, and the limit digit number is determined. If the number is exceeded, the destination instruction is invalidated. For this reason, dialing with the number of digits exceeding the capacity of the dial buffer is avoided, and erroneous dialing can be prevented.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is judged whether or not the dial information waiting for a call exceeds the limit digit number. If the dial information exceeds the limit digit number, the call origination is made. Is disabled. Further, according to the invention of claim 3, when the dial information when the newly registered or changed speed dial information is expanded exceeds the limited number of digits, the new registration or change is rejected. To be done.

Further, according to the invention of claim 4, when the sub dial information is to be changed, whether or not the number of digits after the expansion of the dial information which is already registered or waiting for the call exceeds the limited number of digits. If it is determined that the number of digits exceeds the limit digit, the change of the sub dial information is suppressed. Therefore, in any of the inventions of claims, erroneous dialing can be prevented.

[0013]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a facsimile apparatus which is an example of an apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

As shown in the figure, the system bus 1 has an image reading control unit 2, an image processing control unit 3, an image formation control unit 4, an operation display control unit 5, a communication control unit 6, and a line switching control unit 7. , Memory control unit 8, system control unit 9, data transfer control device (DMAC) 10, CPU 11, RAM 1
2. Digital network control unit 13 and analog network control unit 14
Is connected.

The image reading control unit 2 controls the operation of an image reading unit (for example, a scanner) 2a which reads image image data. The image processing control unit 3 controls the operation of a device 3a that edits or processes image image data, such as an encoding device, a decoding device, a scaling device, and a compression / expansion device. The image formation control unit 4 controls the operation of an image forming unit (printer) that visualizes image image data. The operation display control unit 5 includes an input device having a keyboard and a touch panel for inputting, an LED, an LCD
It controls the operation of the image forming unit 5a having a display device such as. The communication control unit 6 controls the operation of a modem (modulator / demodulator) 6a that controls digital / analog network communication. The line switching control unit 7 controls the operation of the device 7a that connects a plurality of external line interfaces and a plurality of internal communication circuits.

Further, the memory control section 8 controls the operation of the storage section 8a for storing image image data and destination information. The system control unit 9 corresponds to control software that controls the entire operation of the facsimile apparatus. RAM
Reference numeral 12 is used as a temporary working memory area for the control software or image data, and a dial information expansion buffer. The digital network control unit 13 controls connection to a digital network (for example, ISDN network), and the analog network control unit 14 controls connection to an analog network. The analog network control unit 14 has an automatic call originating / receiving function.

Next, FIGS. 2 and 3 are conceptual diagrams of speed dial information and sub dial information stored in the speed dial information storage section and the sub dial information storage section allocated in the storage section 8a, respectively. . As shown in FIG. 2, the abbreviated dial information is composed of an abbreviated ID which is an abbreviated number, data and change information, and the data includes a subdial ID. For example, the short ID "00
The data of “1” includes the subdial ID “A”, and the data of the abbreviated ID “002” includes the subdial ID.
"E" and "B" are included. Also, the shortened ID "00
6 ”data includes sub-dial IDs“ FreeDial ”and“ K
SP "is included. On the other hand, the sub-dial information is
As shown in FIG. 3, it is composed of a sub-dial ID, data and change information, and a sub-dial number is registered in the data.

Next, the functions of the system control section 9 related to the present invention will be described with reference to the functional block diagram of FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, the system control unit 9 registers a sub-dial symbol string in its storage area, and changes or deletes a registered sub-dial symbol string. Sub-dial reading means 22, sub-dial change occurrence determination means 23, sub-dial copy creation means 24, sub-dial change suppressing means 25 for refusing a change or deletion operation of a sub-dial, Sub dial registration content comparison and detection means 2 for comparing the registration contents in the dial information storage unit and detecting the presence or absence of the same registration contents.
6. It has a sub-dial expanded digit number detection means 27 for detecting the expanded digit number of the destination number.

Further, the system control section 9 reads the sub-dial reference detecting means 28 for detecting a sub-dial symbol string from the dial information and the registered content corresponding to the sub-dial symbol string by using the sub-dial reading means 22, Sub-dial expansion / replacement means 29 for replacing with sub-dial data, communication log storage (creation) for storing and managing communication information in which calling is suppressed, communication waiting communication status information, communication completed communication, and the like. Means 30, warning (message) generation means 31 for notifying the operator of a warning (message),
The destination information total digit number detecting means 32 for determining whether the total digit number of the destination information exceeds the capacity limit of the dial transmission temporary storage portion for call control by using the sub dial expansion digit number detecting means 27, communication The call control means 33 for making a call based on the information of the waiting communication and the call suppressing means 34 for controlling that the dial information of the communication waiting communication is defective or the communication designated in advance as invalid communication is not called. It has.

The sub-dial change occurrence determining means 23 uses the change information in the sub-dial information storage unit to determine whether or not the sub-dial symbol string included in the dial information is valid when a call is made. Refer to the judgment. Further, if the sub-dial duplication creating means 24 attempts to change or delete a sub-dial and the sub-dial symbol string is included in the dial information of the communication waiting for communication, the communication is not necessary. Until then, the old sub-dial information is temporarily duplicated and retained to prevent erroneous dialing.

Next, the configuration and operation of the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the functional block diagram of FIG. 5 and the flowchart of FIG. In this embodiment, when the user gives a destination instruction prior to making a call, the number of digits of the expanded telephone number is checked. In FIG.
Reference numeral 41 denotes a destination instruction unit, which corresponds to the operation display unit 5a in FIG. 42 is a speed / sub dial registration (change) unit, 43 is a speed dial information storage unit, and 44 is a sub dial information storage unit. The storage units 43 and 44 correspond to the storage unit 8a in FIG. Reference numeral 45 denotes the speed dial information storage unit 43 which stores the speed dial instructed by the destination instruction unit 41.
A speed dial expansion unit for reading out and expanding from the sub dial, a sub dial searching unit for searching whether the expanded speed dial includes a sub dial, and a sub dial expanding unit for detecting the number of digits of the sub dial. It is a digit number detection unit. Further, 48 is a developed total dial digit number calculation unit that detects the total number of digits of the destination information, 49 is a digit number comparison unit that compares a predetermined digit number 50 with the developed total dial digit number, and 51 is the developed A destination instruction registration unit that registers the destination instruction when the total number of dial digits is 50 or less, and a destination instruction invalidation unit 52 that operates when the former digit number is larger than the latter digit number.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. In step S1, the destination instruction unit 4
It is judged from 1 whether the destination is instructed. If this judgment is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S2, and it is judged whether or not the above-mentioned instruction is an instruction by the shortening button. When this determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S8, and the speed dial is expanded. When the above determination is negative or when the processing of step S8 is completed, step S8
In step 3, it is determined whether the expanded dial includes a sub dial. This determination is made by the sub dial search unit 46. If this determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S4, and if not, the process proceeds to step S7. In step S4, it is determined whether the sub-dial is registered in the sub-dial information storage unit 44. If the determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S5 to calculate the number of digits after the sub-dial is expanded. This is performed by the sub dial expansion digit number detection unit 47 and the expansion total dial digit number calculation unit 48.

Next, in step S6, it is checked whether the number of digits exceeds the capacity of the dial buffer (temporary storage for dial transmission). This check is performed by the digit number comparison unit 49. If this check is YES, the process proceeds to step S7, the destination instruction is accepted, and the destination instruction registration unit 51 registers it as a communication waiting communication. On the other hand, if the check is negative,
In step S10, the destination instruction is invalidated and the destination instruction is rejected. When the determination in step S4 is negative, a warning message indicating that the sub-dial is not registered is output and the process ends. This warning message is
This can be done by the warning (message) generating means 31. As described above, according to the present embodiment, when the destination is designated, it is determined whether the number of digits after the expansion of the speed dial including the sub dial is within the number of digits of the dial buffer. Since the instruction is rejected, incorrect dialing can be prevented.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In this embodiment, the number of digits of the expanded telephone number is checked at the time of calling. In step S11, it is determined whether or not there is a valid communication waiting communication in the communication queue (not shown). When this determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S12, and it is determined whether or not the system is in a state capable of making a call. If this determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S13, and the operation of checking the destination information of the calling target is performed. The above two judgments are made by the call control means 33.

In step S14, it is determined whether or not the destination information includes a sub dial. If this determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S15, and the change information (see FIG. 3) in the sub dial information storage section is checked. Succeedingly, in a step S16, it is determined whether or not the sub dial is valid. If the sub dial is valid, the process proceeds to a step S17 to calculate the number of digits after the sub dial is expanded. Then, in step S18, it is checked whether the number of digits exceeds the capacity of the dial buffer (temporary storage unit for dial transmission). If this check is yes, then proceed to step S19,
The operation of making a call is performed.

If the determination in step S16 or S18 is negative, the process proceeds to step S20 to invalidate the communication. Then, the calling is suppressed. When the process proceeds to step S21, an operation for leaving the call suppression information of the communication in the communication information storage unit is performed. The above-mentioned call suppression is performed by the call suppression means 34, and the communication information is stored by the communication log storage (creation) means 30.

As described above, according to this embodiment, since the number of digits of the telephone number is automatically checked at the time of calling, if the number of digits exceeds the number of digits in the dial buffer, the call is made. Is suppressed and erroneous dialing can be prevented.

Next, the operation of the third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
Will be described with reference to. In this embodiment, the number of digits of the expanded telephone number is checked when the speed dial number is registered. In step S31, it is determined whether or not the speed dial is newly registered. If the determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S32, and if the determination is negative, the process proceeds to step S38. In step S32, it is determined whether or not there is an empty area in the speed dial information storage unit. If the determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S33, and the speed dial registration operation is accepted. Step S
At 34, it is determined whether or not the input speed dial includes a sub-dial. If the determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S35, and the number of digits after the sub-dial is expanded is calculated. Next, in step S36, it is checked whether the number of digits exceeds the capacity of the dial buffer (temporary storage unit for dial transmission). If this check becomes yes, step S3
7, the operation of registering the input content is performed.

On the other hand, when the determination in step S31 is negative, the process proceeds to step S38 and it is determined whether or not the speed dial is changed. When this determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S39, and the speed dial changing operation is accepted. In step S40, it is determined whether or not the changed speed dial includes a sub-dial. If the determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S41 to calculate the number of digits after the sub-dial is expanded. . Next, in step S42, it is checked whether the number of digits exceeds the capacity of the dial buffer (temporary storage unit for dial transmission). If this check is yes, the process proceeds to step S43, and the operation of registering the changed contents is performed.

Next, in steps S32, S36 and S3,
8 or S42 is negative, step S44
Proceed to to reject the registration or change instruction from the user.

According to this embodiment, the number of digits of the expanded telephone number can be checked at the time of registering or changing the speed dial, so that erroneous dialing can be prevented.

Next, the operation of the fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to the flowchart in FIG. This example is
When the sub-dial is changed, the number of digits of the telephone number after the expansion of the destination information of the communication waiting communication and the registered destination information is checked. In step S51, the sub dial registration (change) means 21 determines whether or not a sub dial change operation has been performed. Next, in step S52, the destination information of the communication waiting for communication is searched, and in step S53, the destination information of the speed dial is searched. In step S54, it is determined whether or not the destination information includes a sub-dial to be changed. If the determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S55 to determine the number of digits after the sub-dial is expanded. Calculation is performed. Next, in step S56,
It is checked whether the number of digits exceeds the capacity of the dial buffer (temporary storage for dial transmission). If this check is affirmative, the flow proceeds to step S57, and the subdial in the destination information is changed. Conversely, when the determination in step S56 is negative,
In step S58, the change of the sub dial is rejected.

Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the number of digits after expansion does not exceed the capacity of the dial buffer by changing the sub-dial, and erroneous dialing can be prevented. In addition, in each of the above-described embodiments, when refusing address designation, calling, registration or change of new speed dial, or change of subdial information, a warning is displayed and the number of digits exceeding the limit is displayed to the user. By notifying that there is a call, the user can know the poor call origination at an early stage and can take countermeasures early. Further, regarding the communication for which the calling is suppressed, the communication information may be left in the communication record.

[0034]

According to the invention of claim 1, when the destination is designated, it is checked whether or not the expanded dial information exceeds the limited number of digits, and if it exceeds the limited number of digits, the destination is The instruction is invalidated. Therefore, it is possible to prevent erroneous dialing. According to the invention of claim 2, at the time of calling, it is checked whether or not the expanded dial information exceeds the limited number of digits, and if it exceeds the limited number of digits, the calling is prohibited. . Therefore, it is possible to prevent erroneous dialing.

According to the third aspect of the invention, when the speed dial is newly registered or changed, it is checked whether or not the expanded dial information exceeds the limited number of digits, and when it exceeds the limited number of digits. , The new registration or change is prohibited. Therefore, it is possible to prevent erroneous dialing. Further, according to the invention of claim 4, when the sub dial information is changed, it is checked whether or not the expanded dial information exceeds the limit digit number. Changing dialing information is prohibited. Therefore, it is possible to prevent erroneous dialing.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a facsimile apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of speed dial information.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of sub-dial information.

FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram showing functions of the system control unit in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... System bus, 2 ... Image reading control part, 3 ... Image processing control part, 4 ... Image formation control part, 5 ... Operation display control part, 6
... communication control section, 7 ... line switching control section, 8 ... memory control section, 9 ... system control section, 10 ... data transfer control device (DMAC), 11 ... CPU, 12 ... RAM, 13 ... digital network control section, 14 … Analog network controller.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Yoshihiro Sekine 3-7-1 Fuchu, Iwatsuki City, Saitama Prefecture Fuji Zerox Co., Ltd. (72) Takayuki Nakamura 3-7-1, Fuchu, Iwatsuki City, Saitama Prefecture Fuji Inside Xerox Co., Ltd.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A speed-dial device that includes sub-dial information in speed-dial information, means for determining whether or not the speed-dial information instructed by the destination instructing means includes sub-dial information, and the speed-dial information is If you include subdial information,
Means for determining whether or not the number of digits after expansion exceeds a predetermined limit number of digits, and means for invalidating the destination instruction when the number of digits after expansion exceeds the limit number of digits An abbreviated dial device comprising: 2. A speed-dial device including sub-dial information in speed-dial information, means for determining whether dial information waiting for a call includes sub-dial information, and the dial information includes the sub-dial information. When including, means for determining whether or not the number of digits after expansion exceeds a predetermined limit number of digits, and when the number of digits after expansion exceeds the limit number of digits, the call is made. A speed dial device comprising means for invalidating. 3. A speed dial device including sub dial information in speed dial information, and means for determining whether or not the speed dial information newly registered or changed includes the sub dial information. When the speed dial information includes sub dial information,
Means for determining whether or not the number of digits after expansion exceeds a predetermined limit number of digits, and rejecting the above new registration or change when the number of digits after expansion exceeds the above limit number of digits And a speed dial device. 4. A speed-dial device that includes sub-dial information in speed-dial information, and determines whether sub-dial information to be changed is included in dial information that has already been registered or is waiting to make a call. Means and means for determining whether or not the number of digits after expansion exceeds a predetermined limit number of digits when there is dial information including the sub dial information to be changed, and the number of digits after expansion And a means for suppressing the change of the sub-dial information when the number of digits exceeds the limit digit number.