JPH10312255A - Message display system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a message display system for displaying all messages from plural jobs without operating a terminal. SOLUTION: Message processing requests form plural user jobs 11a and 11b are received by a message processing request reception part 12. When the request is message display, message information is stored in a message information storage part 13. A message display control part 15 sequentially repeats the messages stored in the message information storage part 13 and they are displayed on a terminal screen 14.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a message display system, and more particularly, to a message display system that responds to a message display request from a plurality of user jobs executed simultaneously.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional message display method, FIG.
There is something like that shown in In this message display method, the first OS 61 and the second OS are provided by providing a firmware 64 having a memory area 63 readable and writable by both the first OS 61 and the second OS 62.
The message from any one of the S
And so on.

More specifically, an OS that does not exclusively occupy the terminal device 65 (here, the first OS 61) writes a message to the memory area 63 when a message needs to be displayed while the application program 66 is being executed. The message is written to the memory area 63 by using the command a to instruct. When the message is written to the memory area 63, the firmware 64
(Here, the second OS 62) the terminal control program 6
7 is notified of the existence of the message using the command b. The terminal control program 67 of the OS that exclusively uses the terminal device 65 receives the command b from the firmware 64 and outputs a command c for requesting a message display to the terminal device 65 without performing exclusive control. Is displayed from an OS that does not occupy the same.

[0004] Such a message display system is described in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-257629.

[0005]

A first problem is that when a plurality of jobs request a message to be displayed at one time, only one of them is displayed on the display.

[0006] The reason is that, when a message display request is issued from a plurality of jobs, a message from one of the jobs is displayed on a display of a terminal device in accordance with a predetermined priority, and the displayed message is generated. This is because the message display control is performed so that the display of the message is continued until the cause is removed.

An object of the present invention is to provide a message display method in which messages from a plurality of jobs are all displayed without operating a terminal.

[0008]

According to the message display method of the present invention, there is provided a message processing request means for receiving message processing requests output from a plurality of simultaneously executed user jobs, and a message processing request means for receiving the message processing requests. Message information storage means for storing message information included in the message processing request, and message display control for displaying, on a display means, a message included in all the message information stored in the message information storage means for a predetermined time. Means.

Further, the message display method according to the present invention is characterized in that the predetermined time is determined for each message by display time data included in the message information.

[0010] Further, the message display method of the present invention comprises:
The message display control means repeatedly displays a message included in each of the message information stored in the message information storage means on the display means.

Further, according to the present invention, a message processing request output from each of a plurality of simultaneously executed user jobs is received, and message information included in the message processing request is stored in a storage means. Means for outputting a reception signal indicating that a message processing request has been received, and searching the storage means by using the reception signal as an input, and sequentially searching messages included in all the message information stored in the storage means. A storage medium characterized by storing means for repeatedly displaying on the display means is obtained.

[0012]

The message information from each user job received by the message processing request receiving unit is stored in the message information storage unit. Message information from each user job includes message display data and display time data.

[0013] The message display control section causes the display of the terminal device to display a message based on the message display data stored in the message information storage section. At this time, when there are a plurality of message information stored in the message information storage unit, the display of these messages is repeated sequentially for the display time corresponding to each message.
As a result, all the messages requested to be displayed are displayed without performing any operation.

[0014]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. FIG.
The message display method of a plurality of user jobs 11a,
A message processing request receiving unit 12 for receiving a message processing request from any one of the message processing requests received from the message processing request receiving unit 12; and a message information storing unit 13 for storing the message information when the message processing request received by the message processing request receiving unit 12 includes the message information. And a message display control unit 15 for displaying a message based on the message information stored in the message information storage unit 13 on a terminal screen (a screen of a display of an intelligent terminal) 14.

FIG. 2 shows an example of message information stored in the message information storage unit 13. As shown in FIG.
The message information includes a message number (No.) 21
And message display data 22 and display time data 23
And are included.

Next, the operation of the message display system shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, the operation of the message processing request receiving section 12 shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

When receiving the message processing request in step S31, the message processing request receiving unit 12 determines the type of the received message processing request in step S32. That is, the message processing request receiving unit 12 determines whether the received message processing request is a request for displaying a message or a request for deleting the displayed message. As a result of the determination, if it is a display request, the process proceeds to step S33, and if it is a deletion request, the process proceeds to step S35.

In step S33, the message processing request receiving section 12 stores the message information contained in the received message processing request into the message information storage section 13.
To memorize. Then, the message processing request receiving unit 1
2 requests the message display control unit 15 to display a message in step S34.

On the other hand, in step S35, the message processing request receiving unit 12 deletes the message information corresponding to the received message processing request from the message information storage unit 13. The message information to be deleted can be specified using the message number.

Next, the operation of the message display control unit 15 will be described with reference to FIG.

The message display control unit 15 determines in step S
When a message display request is received from the message processing request receiving unit 12 at 41 (corresponding to step S34 in FIG. 3), the message information is acquired from the message information storage unit 13 at step S42. Then, step S43
Then, a message based on the message display data of the acquired message information is displayed on the terminal screen 14. After displaying the message on the terminal screen 14 for the time specified by the display time data, the message display control unit 15 temporarily ends the display of the message (steps S44 and S4).
5).

Next, the message display control unit 15 searches the message information storage unit 13 in step S46,
Check whether message information other than the displayed message information is stored. For example, the message display control unit 1
Reference numeral 5 stores the message number of the displayed message in a built-in memory (not shown), and checks whether or not any other message number exists in the message information storage unit 13. If other message information is stored,
Returning to step S42, the message information is acquired, and the message is displayed for a specified time.

On the other hand, if there is no message information other than the displayed message information, the message display control unit 1
5 confirms in step S47 whether the message information displayed first still exists. If it exists, the process proceeds to step S4 (clearing the internal memory).
Returning to step 2, the operation is terminated if the file does not exist.

In step S42, all the message information stored in the message information storage unit 13 is read out, and each message is displayed in order.
Instead of 6 and S47, only the presence or absence of the message information stored in the message information storage unit 13 is checked, and if there is, the process returns to step S42. If not, the operation is terminated. Is also good.

As described above, in the present embodiment, when a message display request is issued from a plurality of jobs at a time, all messages are repeatedly displayed in order even if no operation is performed. You.

[0028]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Here, it is assumed that the configuration of the message display method of the present embodiment is the same as that shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 shows the relationship between the message information stored in the message information storage unit 13 and the messages displayed on the terminal screen 14.

FIG. 5A shows a case where the user job 11a is
Message No. 51A, a message processing request including message information composed of message display data "Kamigiri" and display time data "01" is issued, and no message processing request is issued from another user job. In this case, the message "Kamigile"
Since only the message “01” is repeatedly displayed at the time “01”, the message “Kamigiri” is substantially continuously displayed on the terminal screen 14 (always).

When in the state shown in FIG.
In the state where the operation for removing the cause of the message “Kamigiri” is not performed, the message No. 52B, if a message processing request including the message information including the message display data "FD exchange" and the display time data "03" is issued, the message information stored in the message information storage unit 13 is as shown in FIG. Will be on the left. As a result, the terminal screen 1
No. 4 alternately displays the message "Kamigile" over time "01" and the message "FD exchange" over time "03", as shown on the right side of FIG. 5B.

Thereafter, assuming that an operation for removing the cause of the message "Kamigiri" is performed, the user job 11a sends the message No. A message processing request for deleting the message information of 52B is issued, and the message information stored in the message information storage unit 13 is as shown on the left side of FIG. 5 is displayed on the terminal screen 14.
As shown on the right side of (c), the message "FD exchange" is displayed substantially continuously.

[0033]

The first effect is that a message can be displayed on the terminal screen even from a user job which does not occupy the terminal screen.

The reason for this is that all message processing requests from each user job are handled in the same row, all message information for which message display is requested is stored in the message information storage unit, and displayed in order. .

The second effect is that without operating the terminal,
The ability to see messages from all user jobs.

The reason is that the display time of each message is determined in advance, and when there are a plurality of message display requests, the messages are repeatedly displayed in the determined time in order.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining message information stored in a message information storage unit 13 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of a message processing request receiving unit 12 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of the message display control unit 15 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 shows the message information stored in the message information storage unit 13 and the terminal screen 14 in one embodiment of the present invention.
It is a figure showing the relation with the message displayed above.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a conventional message display method.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11a, 11b User job 12 Message processing request receiving unit 13 Message information storage unit 14 Terminal screen 15 Message display control unit 21 Message number 22 Message display data 23 Display time data 61 First OS 62 Second OS 63 Memory area 64 Firmware 65 Terminal device

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A message processing requesting means for receiving message processing requests respectively output from a plurality of user jobs executed simultaneously, and storing message information included in the message processing request received by the message processing requesting means. A message display system comprising: a message information storage unit; and a message display control unit that causes a display unit to display a message included in all the message information stored in the message information storage unit for a predetermined time. . 2. The message display method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined time is determined for each message by display time data included in the message information. 3. The message according to claim 1, wherein the message display control means repeatedly displays on the display means all the messages contained in the message information stored in the message information storage means. Display method. 4. Receiving a message processing request output from each of a plurality of simultaneously executed user jobs, storing message information included in the message processing request in a storage unit, and receiving the message processing request. Means for outputting a reception signal indicating the following, and means for retrieving the storage means using the reception signal as an input, and displaying the messages included in all the message information stored in the storage means on the display means repeatedly in order. And a storage medium storing the following.