JPS62296664A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a facsimile equipment that satisfies the intention of an operator by storing the telephone number of a person on the transmission side, determining the priority of recording by the said telephone number for recording. CONSTITUTION:The priority (headquarter office, branch office 1, 2...) is set in a recording priority setting part 10, and the telephone numbers of the offices are stored. Reception images are stored in a storage part 9, and recorded by a recording part 2. First, originals of priority order '1' are searched, then they are recorded in the order of arrivals. If the number times of recording exceeds '10', the recording mode shifts to that of the originals of priority order '2', and the counting of the originals of priority order '1' is cleared. The originals of priority order '2' are searched, recorded in order of arrivals, and the number of times of their recordings are counted. If the said counting exceeds '10', the recording mode shifts so that of the originals of priority order '3'. With such constitution, informations of high importance are processed earlier in accordance with the priority of the offices that transmitted them, hence the facsimile is can be used effectively.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] 3. Detailed Description of the Invention Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a facsimile machine having a storage function.
The present invention relates briefly to a facsimile machine having a recording priority function.

Conventional technology: In a facsimile machine that has a storage function that stores received originals and records them in the order in which they are stored, for example, if 20 sheets each are received from three locations A, B, and C, the next original received from location A is , B, and C are recorded.

Conventionally, in this type of facsimile machine, if the number of received and stored originals is tens or hundreds, the originals to be received from now on will be recorded after all previous originals have been recorded. Become. This phenomenon will become more pronounced as storage capacity increases in the future.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention Therefore, if the document that has just been received is of high urgency and importance, a long delay in viewing the record may lead to great loss regarding the contents of the document9. do not have.

Documents with high urgency and importance require timely receipt records.

In this way, simply having a storage function may turn out to be a convenient storage function, but it may turn out to be a drawback.

The present invention has been made in order to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks inherent in the prior art.Therefore, the purpose of the present invention is to
It is an object of the present invention to provide a new facsimile device that is capable of recording and processing received documents of high importance in advance.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above object, a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention is a facsimile apparatus having a receiving and storing function, a means for storing a sender's telephone number, and a telephone number stored by the storing means. It is comprised of a means for determining the priority of recording based on numbers, and recording according to the priority is a deductible.

Embodiment Next, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be specifically explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, an embodiment of the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention includes a reading section 11, a recording section 2, an encoding/decoding section 3,
Modem section 4, network control section 5, control section 6
, line connection terminal 7 connected to the line, operation section 8, storage section 9
, a recording priority order setting section 10 located above the operation section 8.

The configuration of this 7 Axismi IJ device is the recording priority setting section lO.
Other than that, there is no big difference from the conventional one.

With this facsimile machine, the severity of the destination, for example, if this facsimile machine is located at a branch office, and the document sent from the head office is a high-cost document that should be received later. In this case, by storing the 111 call number of the head office in the recording priority setting section 10, the reception from the head office can be recorded in advance.

For example, it is assumed that the recording priority order setting unit IO divides the recording priority order into three stages. The priority order is 1, 2.3 from the top. One company has the highest priority level l (for example, specify the head office), and one company has the highest priority level 2 (for example, specify the branch office 1,
Specify branch office 2).

Priority 3 is not specified and reception from others is accepted.

The received image signals are accumulated in the accumulation section 9 each time they are received. The accumulated image signals are recorded by the recording section 2 in the order of the set priorities.

One procedure in which the image signals accumulated in the accumulation section 9 are recorded by the recording section 2 is shown in the flowchart of FIG. The document groups stored in the storage section 9 are recorded in descending order of priority.

First, the storage unit 9 is searched for a document designated as priority l (step 11). If there is a priority level l document group, the documents are immediately recorded in the earliest received order from the priority level l document group (step 12).

When you have finished recording this, add 1 to the count value to count how many times you have recorded the priority l original (
Step 13). It is determined whether the count value exceeds 10t-, and if it does not exceed lO, the process returns to the starting point, and if it exceeds lO, it moves to the next step to send the priority 2 document group (step 14). In other words, in the priority 1 original recording mode, priority 1 originals are
This means that if the document is recorded 0 times, the mode shifts to priority 2 document recording mode.

If the count value exceeds IO in step 14, the process moves to the recording of priority 2 originals, so the value that counts the number of continuous recordings of priority 1 originals is cleared (step 15).

It is determined whether priority 2 document groups are stored (step 16). If there is a priority 2 document group, the documents are recorded in the order of earliest reception from the priority 2 document group (step 17). Add l to the count value to count how many parts of the wave-light order 2 manuscript have been recorded (Step 1
8). If the number of priority 2 document groups recorded is 10 or less, return to the starting point. When the count value exceeds IO, Yang Zeng shifts to priority 3 manuscript record mode (step 19).

When the document transmission mode of 11th place 2 has been carried out 10 times, the count value of W of priority 2, document group t-recorded number is cleared (step 20). Therefore, priority 3
After the original recording mode has been performed 10 times, the priority 3 original recording mode is unconditionally performed. Next place of birth; misplacement 3
It is determined whether there is a document group (step 21), and if there is, it is recorded in the Ifil that was received earlier among the three priority document groups (step 22).

After recording, or when there is no document with priority 3, it returns to the starting point.

Similarly, in this embodiment, the priority order is set to three levels, but it goes without saying that any number of levels may be used, and any number of places at each level may be set.

As described in detail, according to the present invention, in a facsimile device having a storage function, the destination priority of received documents is set in advance, and the priority is followed.
Information with high importance is processed preferentially, and the effect of promoting effective use of the facsimile machine according to the operator's intention can be provided.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing one procedure for recording accumulated received originals.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A facsimile machine having a storage function for storing and recording received originals, comprising means for storing a telephone number of a sender, and means for determining recording priority based on the number stored by the storage means, A facsimile device characterized by recording according to priority.