JPS6292655A - Facsimile storing and broadcasting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent the occurrence of held texts or the extension of the holding time by collecting texts of the same destination at each distribution time of a distribution time memory and broadcasting and distributing these texts during one facsimile call. CONSTITUTION:A broadcasting device M separates and detects text information and destination designating information from an information signal inputted to an acceptance channel control part 3 and stores temporarily text information and destination designating information in a storage part 4 and a destination information memory 81 respectively. At a prescribed time, a CPU 85 reads out information destined for A from the destination information memory 81 and transfers a dial number of the destination A to a distribution channel control part 5. This control part 5 reads out all accepted text information, whose broadcasting to the destination A is requested, from the storage part 4. All of text information destined for A are collectively broadcasted and distributed to the destination terminal A (broadcast destination FAXn).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention provides a facsimile storage/broadcasting device which temporarily stores facsimile manuscripts from a facsimile requesting a multibroadcast, and then multicasts the same to a plurality of multibroadcast destination facsimile machines. This is a facsimile storage and broadcasting device that establishes one facsimile call for each distribution time set in the broadcasting device, and broadcasts all facsimile documents to the same broadcast destination as a group. Regarding.

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional facsimile storage/broadcasting device of this type receives one or more facsimile manuscripts (hereinafter referred to as telegrams) requested for broadcasting, temporarily stores the telegrams, and then immediately transmits them to multiple facsimile documents. The process of broadcasting to the specified facsimile destination has started.

That is, the broadcast requester first transmits a destination-designated manuscript (with no delivery time specification) with a mark written in the desired destination to the broadcasting device together with a telegram. The broadcasting device detects the mark on the destination specification document and temporarily stores subsequent messages in the storage unit.

However, when one message is successfully received, an empty distribution communication control section is immediately selected via the distribution channel control section. This distribution communication control section dials the specified destination facsimile.

This establishes a facsimile call.

Based on this facsimile call sequence, the message is broadcasted to a plurality of designated facsimile destinations.

As is well known, the time sequence of a facsimile call is Phase A (call setup procedure), Phase B (pre-message procedure that handles identification of each function of the terminal, command of selection status, confirmation of receivable status, etc.). ), Phase C (procedure for sending a message), Phase D (post-message procedure handling message termination, confirmation, etc.), and 7A's E (call recovery procedure) are arranged in the order of progress of operations.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention By the way, as mentioned above, in the conventional broadcasting device,
Since broadcast distribution is processed in units of one message, a facsimile call is established for each message, and control signals other than so-called facsimile signals for message transmission are transmitted and received every time one message is distributed. It is being said.

Therefore, due to these reasons, if requests for message distribution are concentrated on a specific broadcast destination facsimile, the broadcast distribution process for subsequent messages cannot be started until the current broadcast distribution process is completed. A stagnation state of subsequent messages occurs,
The number of so-called pending messages increases.

As the number of accumulated messages increases, the residence time until the distribution process of the accumulated messages increases becomes longer, which causes a problem in that the throughput of the entire system decreases.

The present invention has been developed in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and instead of establishing a facsimile call for each message and broadcasting it as in the past, the present invention is performed at each pre-allocated delivery time. , by establishing a facsimile call and broadcasting messages to the same destination that have been requested by the distribution time all at once, it is possible to avoid the occurrence of stagnant messages or prolong the residence time as in the past. It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile storage/broadcasting device which prevents the above problems and improves the throughput of the entire system.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above object, the facsimile storage and broadcasting device according to the present invention includes a delivery time memory and a message to the same destination for each delivery time in the delivery time memory. The present invention is characterized in that it is provided with a means for performing broadcast distribution processing for all of these in one facsimile call.

Operation: With the above-described configuration, messages to the same destination are collectively distributed at predetermined time intervals. Moreover, since the broadcast distribution process is performed during one facsimile call, when transmitting messages to multiple destinations, all procedures from Phase A to Phase E are repeated as in the conventional method. It is not necessary, and as shown in FIG. 2, 7A's A, B, and E only need to be performed once, and only Phases C and D need to be repeated multiple times depending on the number of messages to be delivered.

Tsumari, in this case, the second and subsequent phases A, B and E
This procedure can be omitted, and the time required for transmitting and receiving control signals other than facsimile signals is reduced.

Therefore, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of retained messages or shorten the retention time, thereby improving the utilization efficiency of terminals and broadcasting devices, and
Overall system throughput is improved.

Embodiment FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing an embodiment of a broadcast system to which the device of the present invention is applied. In the figure, FAXt is a broadcast request facsimile (hereinafter referred to as broadcast request FAX),
AXn is the broadcast destination facsimile (hereinafter referred to as broadcast destination FAX)
It's called n. ), S is a switch, and M is a main body of a facsimile storage and broadcasting device (hereinafter referred to as a broadcasting device) according to the present invention.

Broadcast device M includes a plurality of reception communication control units 1.2, reception channel control unit 3, storage unit 4, and distribution channel control unit 5.
In addition to the plurality of distribution communication control units 6, 7, etc., the main control unit 8
It consists of:

The main control unit 8 includes a destination information memory 81, a dial number memory 82, a CRT with a keyboard 83, a clock 84, a CPU 85 that controls all of these, a delivery time memory 86 connected to the CPU 85, and the like.

The format of the distribution time memory 86 is as shown in the example of the name recording section 8 of each broadcast destination FAXn.
61 (In this example, destination A and destination B are recorded.)
Area 8 shows the number of times allocated to each destination.
62 (This example shows that 24 times are allocated to destination A and 20 times are allocated to destination B.), indicating the times allocated to each destination. Area 863 (8:0 for destination A in this example)
0.8:30, 9:00 but 8:10 for destination B
．． It shows that 8:40 and 9:10 are allocated respectively. ).

Next, the operation shown in FIG. 1 will be explained.

First, the broadcast requester transmits a destination designation manuscript with a mark written in the desired destination and no delivery time instruction, together with a telegram, from the broadcast request FAX 1 via the exchange S to the broadcast apparatus M.

The broadcast device M separates and detects telegram information and destination designation information from the information signal input to the reception channel control section 3 via the unused reception communication control section l or 2, and stores the telegram information in the storage section 4.
In addition, the destination designation information is temporarily stored in the destination information memory 81.

On the other hand, the CPU 85 monitors the time in the distribution time memory 86 with reference to the main control unit 80 clock 84.

Then, at a predetermined time, for example 8:30 a.m., the CPU 85 reads the A destination information from the destination information memory 81, reads the A destination dial number from the dial number memory 82 based on this A destination information, and This person's destination dial number is transferred to the distribution channel control section 5.

The distribution channel control unit 5, which received this person's destination dial number, reads from the storage unit 4 all the message information for which broadcast requests have been made to the A destination, which have been received up to the above time (8:30). , an empty channel, for example, the distribution communication control unit 6
Select.

Then, from this distribution communication control unit 6, all of the message information for destination A is simultaneously distributed to destination terminal A (multicast destination FAXn).

In this case, the facsimile call is established only once. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, first, the procedures of phases A and B are executed only once according to a predetermined sequence. Next, all of the message information to destination A is distributed at once in steps C and D.

In other words, the procedures of phases C and D are executed according to a predetermined sequence a number of times corresponding to the number of broadcast messages to destination A (in FIG. 2), needs C, D, C',
It is indicated by D'. ).

In this way, when the distribution process of all the messages to destination A is completed, the sequence of phase E is executed only once, and the series of one facsimile call is restored.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the overall operation of the device of the present invention. In the figure, T a □ is a destination A (user A's
AX terminal), the delivery time indicating, for example, 8 a.m., Tal is also assigned to destination A, for example, 8 a.m.
The delivery time indicating 1:30 am, Ta2 is the same (for example, the delivery time indicating 9:00 am assigned to destination A, and Tbo
is the delivery time assigned to destination B (user B's fax terminal), for example, 8:10 a.m., and Tb1 is the delivery time, for example, 8:40 a.m., also assigned to destination B. The time is stored in the distribution time memory 86 (see FIG. 1).

In FIG. 3, user N's FAX is sent after delivery time Tbo.
If the terminal sends messages to destinations A and B, and the message from user B's FAX terminal sends messages to destination A to broadcasting device M, then at delivery time Ta1, the messages to destination A and the message from user B's fax terminal are sent to broadcasting device M. Delivered to user A's FAX terminal.

In this case, for example, if the delivery process for the message port is incomplete due to a paper jam in the receiver or the like, the message port for the destination A will be delivered at the next delivery time Taz.

Furthermore, after the distribution time Tal, A is sent from user N's FAX terminal.
When the message C for the destination and the destination B is transmitted to the broadcasting device M, the previous message A for the destination B and the message C for the current destination B are delivered at the same time to the FAX terminal of the user B at delivery time Tb1. Ru.

Further, the message C to the A destination is delivered to the user's FAX terminal at delivery time Ta2, together with the message port to the A destination which has not yet been delivered.

The above-mentioned distribution times and the number of distributions are determined by the main control unit 8 in FIG.
The settings can be freely modified for each destination FAX terminal via the keyboard of the CRT 83 equipped with a keyboard.

Also, if there are many destination fax terminals, many time zones (
It is desirable to allocate a delivery time).

Effects of the Invention In short, according to the device of the present invention, for each pre-allocated distribution time, messages to the same destination that have received a broadcast request up to that distribution time are grouped together, and during one facsimile call, Since the broadcast is distributed to the same destination terminal, there is no need to establish a facsimile call that includes all the procedures of phases A to H for each message as in the past, and only two of phases A, B, and E are required. It is possible to deliver a plurality of messages to the same destination by repeating the sequence of phases C and D by omitting the execution of the subsequent steps, and furthermore, due to the omission of the phases A, B and E, The time required for transmitting and receiving control signals other than facsimile signals is also reduced.

In other words, the time required for the distribution process is short, and it is possible to prevent the occurrence of pending messages or the prolongation of the pending message as in the conventional method.

Furthermore, since messages to the same destination are distributed in batches, there are significant effects such as improved usage efficiency of terminals and broadcasting devices, and by extension the throughput of the entire system.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing an embodiment of a broadcasting system to which the facsimile storage and broadcasting device according to the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the control procedure of the device of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the device of the present invention. 2 is a flowchart of the overall operation in FIG. FAXI...broadcast request facsimile, FAXn
...broadcast destination facsimile, S-...exchange, M...
- Facsimile storage and broadcasting device according to the present invention, 8... Main control unit, 86... Delivery time memory. Name of agent: Patent attorney Toshio Nakao and 1 other person 2nd
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Claims (1)

[Claims] After temporarily storing facsimile manuscripts from each broadcast request facsimile, the facsimile storage/broadcasting device that broadcasts the same to multiple broadcast destination facsimiles stores multiple delivery times for each broadcast destination. The delivery time memory and each facsimile document for the same broadcast destination facsimile are batched for each delivery time in this delivery time memory.
A facsimile storage/broadcasting apparatus characterized in that the facsimile storage/broadcasting apparatus is further provided with means for performing multibroadcasting processing during one facsimile call.