JPH09186843A - Facsimile store and forward exchange - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To distinguish an urgent document from general documents by using a conventional facsimile protocol. SOLUTION: A line control section 1 contains a conventional line 9a and an emergency line 9b in total two lines. A facsimile transmission reception section 2 makes facsimile communication procedure via the line control section 1. A memory section 3 stores received facsimile documents. A control section 4 controls each function with respect to the emergent document. A display operation section 5 displays a stored document content and a document list. A monitor output section 6 reads the document content received from the memory section 3 and gives a monitor output to a monitor facsimile equipment 7. A dial transmission section 8 sends the dial number of a designated destination. The emergent document is sent to the emergent line 9b and the conventional document (general document) is received by the conventional line 9a.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile storage device, and more particularly to a facsimile storage device having a facsimile information storage function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is a case where it is desired to send and receive a document concerning an urgent matter (urgent document) by facsimile. However, it is impossible to determine whether the received document from the general-purpose facsimile apparatus using the facsimile standard G3 procedure is a general document or an urgent document, and therefore the receiving side cannot know that the urgent document is received.

Therefore, conventionally, there is known a facsimile storage device which confidentially transmits / receives an urgent document and notifies the reception of the urgent document by calling a pager (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 207764/1992). Invention title "facsimile device").

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the above-mentioned conventional facsimile storage device. As shown in the figure, in this conventional device, the control unit 11 that controls each part of the device is
A U (network control device) 12, a modem 13, a reading unit 14, a recording unit 15, a mechanical unit 16, a sensor unit 17, an operating unit 18, a memory 19 and a document memory 20 are connected, and the document is used as image data via a telephone line. It is configured to transmit and receive.

In this conventional apparatus, when an incoming call is received, the control unit 1 determines whether the incoming document is a confidentially transmitted document.
When the document is determined by the recording control unit 21 in 1 and is confidentially transmitted, in a specific area provided in the document memory 20 while receiving the image data representing the document transmitted through the telephone line, In addition, the data is accumulated in the area specified by the sender. After the confidential transmission, the image data stored in the document memory 20 is an urgent document, and when the pager call is set to ON, the telephone number set in the area where the image data is stored. The pager is called using. Thereby, it can be notified that the emergency document has been received.

[0006]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional facsimile storage apparatus, the designation according to the degree of urgency must be given in the facsimile communication procedure. For that purpose, the G3 non-standard procedure must be used. Therefore, there is a problem that the specified content is not notified unless it is between dedicated facsimile storage devices of the same manufacturer (in the communication procedure,
(Sending / receiving between facsimile storage devices of different manufacturers results in standard G3 procedure).

On the other hand, since the facsimile standard G3 procedure cannot add a designation for distinguishing between emergency and general,
In the facsimile communication using the general-purpose facsimile storage device according to the facsimile standard G3 procedure, it is impossible to distinguish between an emergency document and a general document.

[0008] The present invention has been made in view of the above points,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile storage device capable of distinguishing an emergency document and a general document by a general-purpose facsimile procedure.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention comprises at least one line numbered for normal document reception and at least one line numbered for emergency document reception. A line control unit that accommodates a plurality of lines, a facsimile transmission / reception unit that transmits / receives a facsimile signal through the line that the line control unit accommodates, a memory unit that stores the facsimile signals received by the facsimile transmission / reception unit, and a memory unit. A structure having a monitoring means for reading out and monitoring the stored signal and a calling means for calling a pager through a public line with a set telephone number when a facsimile signal arrives at the emergency document receiving line It is what

According to the present invention, the emergency document and the ordinary document (general document) are received on separate lines, so that the emergency document and the ordinary document can be easily discriminated by using the general-purpose facsimile procedure, and the pocket can be used. You can notify the reception of emergency documents by bell.

Further, when the second facsimile signal arrives at the emergency document receiving line while receiving the first facsimile signal through the normal document receiving line, the receiving process for the first facsimile signal is interrupted. Further, it is desirable to have a priority processing means for preferentially performing the reception processing of the second facsimile signal, because the reception processing for the emergency document can be performed quickly.

Further, it is desirable to have a display means for displaying a list of the document contents accumulated in the memory section, because the contents of the emergency document can be confirmed and the subsequent correspondence can be ensured.

[0013]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of a facsimile storage device according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, in this embodiment, a line control unit 1 that accommodates a total of two lines, a normal line 9a and an emergency line 9b, and a facsimile transmission / reception unit 2 that performs a facsimile communication procedure via the line control unit 1 A memory unit 3 for storing the received facsimile document, a control unit 4 for controlling each function for the emergency document, a display / operation unit 5 for displaying the stored document contents and a document list, and a document received from the memory unit 3. It comprises a monitor output unit 6 for reading the contents and supplying a monitor output to the monitor facsimile 7, and a dial transmission unit 8 attached to the line control unit 1 for transmitting the dial number of the designated destination. The control section 4 constitutes the priority processing means, the dial transmission section 8 constitutes the calling means, and the display / operation section 5 constitutes the display means.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. The facsimile apparatus on the transmitting side (not shown) selects the normal line 9a or the emergency line 9b by the telephone number according to the urgency of the document to be transmitted, and transmits the document. Therefore, if the document to be transmitted is an urgent document on the transmitting side, the emergency line 9
Send to b. Documents sent and received are facsimile standard G
It is transmitted and received in three steps. Therefore, it does not matter if the facsimile machine on the transmission side does not have the same manufacturer and specifications as the facsimile accumulator of this embodiment.

Image data of a document input from the transmitting side via the normal line 9a or the emergency line 9b is received by the facsimile transmitting / receiving unit 2, and the image data of the received document is stored in the memory unit 3. The monitor output unit 6 reads out the image data stored in the memory unit 3, transmits the image data to the monitor facsimile 7 installed in the vicinity, and causes the received document to be printed.

Here, when a facsimile signal (emergency document) is received through the emergency line 9b, the control unit 4 passes through a public line (not shown) for the pager telephone number registered in the dial sending unit 8 in advance. And then calls the pager of the person who handles this device. As a result, it is possible to promptly notify the handler of the receipt of the emergency document.

The operator notified by the pager that the emergency document has been received displays the contents of the received document and a list on the display / operation unit 5, and displays the contents of the designated document on the monitor output unit 6.
Can be output to the monitor facsimile 7 and the contents of the emergency document can be confirmed. As a result, the handler can promptly and surely deal with the emergency document.

When a normal document is received via the normal line 9a and an emergency document is received via the emergency line 9b, the control section 4 causes the facsimile transmission / reception section 2 to operate.
Thus, the communication of the normal line 9a is interrupted, and the emergency document is controlled to be given priority. At this time, the contents of the ordinary document that has been received until then are accumulated and held in the memory unit 3.

The dial sending section 8 may have a structure in which the telephone numbers of a plurality of pagers are registered in advance and any one of the telephone numbers can be selected by the control section 4. Further, even if the emergency document is received during the reception of the normal document, the reception process of the emergency document may be waited until the end of the reception of the normal document or may be received at the same time.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The emergency document and the normal document (general document) are received on separate lines, respectively, and the general-purpose facsimile procedure is used to easily distinguish between the emergency document and the normal document. Therefore, the general-purpose facsimile procedure is used. It is possible that an emergency document can be transmitted and received, and the facsimile storage device on the transmission side does not have to have the same specifications as the device of the present invention by the same manufacturer.
Therefore, the versatility of the system can be improved as compared with the conventional device.

Further, according to the present invention, since the reception of the emergency document can be notified by the pager, it is possible to promptly perform a predetermined operation of the operator in an emergency.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 line control unit 2 facsimile transmission / reception unit 3 memory unit 4 control unit 5 display / operation unit 6 monitor output unit 7 monitor facsimile 8 dial sending unit 9a normal line 9b emergency line

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A line control unit for accommodating a plurality of lines including at least one line set for receiving a normal document and at least one line set for receiving an emergency document, and the line control unit. A facsimile transmission / reception unit that transmits / receives a facsimile signal via a line accommodated by the device, a memory unit that stores the facsimile signal received by the facsimile transmission / reception unit, and a monitoring unit that reads and monitors the signal stored in the memory unit. A facsimile accumulating device comprising: a calling means for calling a pager through a public line with a set telephone number when a facsimile signal arrives at the emergency document receiving line. 2. When a second facsimile signal arrives at the emergency document receiving line while receiving the first facsimile signal through the normal document receiving line, the first facsimile signal is received.
2. The facsimile storage device according to claim 1, further comprising: priority processing means for interrupting the reception processing for the facsimile signal and performing the reception processing for the second facsimile signal with priority. 3. A display unit for displaying a list of document contents accumulated in the memory unit.
The described facsimile storage device.