JPS61267455A - Data saving system for facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it unnecessary to register again various register data with manual operations, by providing a means which writes received data in a memory and a means which reads out and transmits written data when transmission of written data is requested. CONSTITUTION:A maintenance man prepares a facsimile equipment in a maintenance center and indicates an equipment control part 4 from an operation panel 6 of a facsimile equipment 13 to communicate with the facsimile equipment 14 of the maintenance center and causes the control part 4 to transmit contents of register data memory 5 through MODEM 7, and these contents are written in a register data memory 12 of the facsimile equipment 14. When the maintenance work is terminated, he communicates with the facsimile equipment 14 again to give a polling indication and causes the facsimile equipment 14 to read out saved register data from the register memory 12 and receives this data and writes it in the register data memory 5.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] When maintaining a facsimile machine, various data registered by the user is temporarily saved in the facsimile machine installed at the maintenance center, and when maintenance work is completed, this saved registered data is automatically saved. to read it, receive it, and automatically register it again.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to maintenance work for facsimile machines, and in particular, a registered data saving method for facsimile machines that enables efficient maintenance work by making it possible to save data registered by a user to another facsimile machine and write it again. Regarding.

With the development of the information society, various information processing devices have become widespread, and facsimile devices have come to be used more and more for information transmission. This facsimile machine has various data registered by the user, such as telephone number registration for automatic dialing function, group identification code, etc., and is stored in memory.

This memory is usually backed up by a battery and is held in a non-volatile state. However, the contents of the memory may disappear during maintenance work, and it is necessary to temporarily save this registered data and store it again.

Maintenance work must be efficient and accurate, and it is desirable that this work of saving and re-registering registered data be easy.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional maintenance work for facsimile machines, registration data had to be output from memory onto recording paper or manually written down and saved, and then manually re-registered after the maintenance work was completed.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

As mentioned above, conventionally, registered data has been saved and re-registered manually, but this registered data varies from user to user, complicating maintenance work and causing errors. .

1 [Means for Solving the Problems 3] Figure 3 is a block diagram of a circuit showing one embodiment of the present invention.

1 to 8 constitute one facsimile machine 13, and 9 to 1
2 constitutes a part of the opposing facsimile machine 14.

Here, 1 is a document reading section that reads the document, 2 is a recording section that records received data on recording paper, and 3 is a document reading section that compresses the data sent out, expands the received data, and sends it to the recording section 2. This is an image signal processing section.

4 and 11 are device control units that control the entire facsimile machine; 5 and 12 are registration data memories built into the device control units 4 and 12, respectively, for storing registration data; and 6 is an operation panel through which an operator can interact with the facsimile machine 13. ,7
and 10 a modem for modulating or demodulating data, 8 and 9
is a network control unit that controls the line network and configures the communication line.

In response to instructions from the operation panel 6, the device control section 4 sends the contents of the registered data memory 5 to the modem 7, and controls the data input from the modem 7 to be written into the registered data memory 5 again. Further, the device control section 11 stores data input from the modem 10 in the registered data memory 1 according to instructions from the device control section 4.
2 and register data memory 1 by polling instruction.
2 to the modem IO.

[Effect]

With the above configuration, maintenance personnel prepares the facsimile machine 14 at the maintenance center, instructs the device control unit 4 from the operation panel 6 of the facsimile machine 13 to communicate with the facsimile machine 14 of the maintenance center, and registers data. The contents of the memory 5 are sent out via the modem 7 and written into the registered data memory 12 of the facsimile machine 14.

Then, at the end of the maintenance work, the facsimile device 14 communicates with the facsimile device 14 again, gives a polling instruction, reads the saved registration data from the registration data memory 12, receives it, and writes it into the registration data memory 5.

〔Example〕

In the figure, a device control section 4 controls a network control section 8 to connect a line based on instructions from an operation panel 6. Next, the document set in the document reading section 1 is read, and the data compressed by the image signal processing section 3 is modulated by the modem 7.
It is sent out over the line via the network control unit 8.

Further, the device control section 4 demodulates data input from a line connected by the network control section 8 using the modem 7, sends it to the image signal processing section 3, decompresses it, and then sends it to the recording section 2 for recording.

When the device control section 4 receives an instruction from the operation panel 6 to save the contents of the registered data memory 5, it controls the network control section 8 to establish a line with the facsimile machine 14 at the maintenance center. Next, the contents of the registered data memory 5 are read out, and the modem 7
The data is changed by , and sent to the line via the network control circuit 8 , and the device control section 11 is instructed to write it into the registered data memory 12 .

When the device control section 4 communicates with the facsimile device 14 again from the operation panel 6 and is instructed to issue a polling instruction, it connects the facsimile device 14 as described above and gives a polling instruction to the device control section 11.

The device control section 11 reads out the registration data written in the registration data memory 12, modulates it with the modem 10, and sends it out to the line via the network control section 9.

Registration data that enters via the network control section 8 is demodulated by the modem 7 and written into the registration data memory 5 under the control of the device control section 4.

In the above description, it has been explained that the device control sections 4 and 11 perform different control operations, but it goes without saying that the functions of both may be combined.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention automatically saves various registration data registered by users to a facsimile machine at a maintenance center without the need for manual re-registration.
Furthermore, by rewriting the information, complicated work can be avoided and mistakes can be prevented.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figure is a block diagram of a circuit showing one embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a document reading section, 2 is a recording section, 3 is an image signal processing section, 4 and 11 are device control sections, and 5.1
2 is a registration data memory, 6 is an operation panel, 7 and 10 are modems, 8 and 9 are network control units, and 13 and 14 are facsimile machines.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] In a facsimile machine having a memory (5, 12) for storing data, the contents of the memory (5, 12) are read and transmitted based on a transmission instruction, and the received data is transmitted to the memory (5, 12). means (4, 11) for writing into the memory (5, 12); writing the received data into the memory (5, 12) when instructed to write into the memory (5, 12); and transmitting the written data. means (4, 11) for reading and transmitting data written in the memory (5, 12) when requested;
A data saving method for a facsimile machine, characterized by being provided with.