JPS63107338A - Communication terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily retrieve a received document by storing document information to a prescribed storage area in response to an opposite party identifier. CONSTITUTION:In receiving a document by a serial data input/output device 14 of a communication terminal section B, an opposite terminal identifier of the received document is added and it is transferred to a CCUI9 of a document edition section A via a WPI 10. The document edition section A extracts the identifier to retrieve the opposite identifier table and stores the received document to a cabinet corresponding to the identifier. On the other hand, when the opposite terminal identification number is not registered in the table, the received document is stored of a default cabinet.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a communication terminal device having a document editing function and a communication function, and particularly relates to an improvement in the storage and storage of received documents during automatic reception.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in this type of communication terminal device, when storing a received document in a storage medium such as a flexible disk such as a floppy disk or a hard disk such as an optical disk during automatic reception, the received document is Storage was performed unconditionally in the storage medium in sequence.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, if a received document is unconditionally stored in a storage medium in this way, the following drawbacks occur.

■ It is necessary to create an inventory of all received documents stored in the storage medium each time.

■ After that, all the above-mentioned catalogs must be searched to confirm the sender and determine the importance of the document.

■ In the near future, if large-capacity files such as optical disks and magneto-optical disks become widespread and the amount of information in one file increases dramatically due to high-speed digital lines such as IN5 (Advanced Information and Communication System), the above catalog It is thought that scanning such as creation and searching will become extremely difficult.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, the present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks, and provides a communication terminal device that can easily search received documents in a storage medium received from an unspecified number of terminals and stored in a short time, and that facilitates file management. The purpose is to

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a document storage medium whose storage area is divided according to a preset destination identifier, and a document storage medium that stores document information received from the outside. The present invention is characterized by comprising a document storage means for storing the document information in an area within the document storage medium corresponding to the party identifier indicated in the document information.

[Function] In the present invention, when receiving a large amount of documents from an unspecified number of terminals, the document information is stored in a predetermined storage area according to the recipient identifier, so that the received documents can be easily retrieved. It is also possible to perform effective file management by shortening the search time.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the functional configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. In this figure, a is a document editing means, and b is a document storage means. The document storage means stores document information input from manual means a' such as a keyboard in storage media c, c' such as an optical disk,
The document editing means a can edit the documents stored in the storage media c, c' as necessary, and store them in the storage media c, c' again by the document storage means. Also,
The document stored in the document storage means is transmitted to the document receiving means e of the communication terminal unit B through the document transmitting means d, and a call instruction (call) is set by the line transmitting means f, and the desired communication line is The data is sent to other communication terminal devices through the DDK packet switching network (OOX-P), etc.

In addition, when a call request (called) is sent from another communication terminal device to the own communication terminal device, the line receiving means g receives the document information, and the received document information and calling terminal identifier information are The document is sent to the document receiving means i through the document transmitting means. The document etc. received by the document receiving means i is sent to the determining means j, and the determining means j checks whether the calling terminal identifier is registered in the other party identifier table, and if it is registered. stores the document in the storage medium C of the cabinet corresponding to the partner identifier by the document storage means. On the other hand, if the calling terminal identifier is not registered in the other party identifier table k, the received document is stored in the storage medium C' of the DEFAIILT cabinet by the document storage means.

In addition, updates and deletions to the other party identifier information table, new R2
1 is performed using table creation means ℃. Further, this table and the storage media C and C' can be provided in one storage medium.

FIG. 2 shows a specific example of a communication terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in this figure, the communication terminal device of this example has a document editing section A that mainly edits documents and saves received documents.
and a communication terminal section B for transmitting and receiving documents between external devices. First, the document editing section A will be explained. Reference numeral 1 denotes a central processing unit (CPU) such as a microprocessor, which performs various control processes such as logical operations and comparisons in the document editing section A according to control procedures shown in FIGS. 7 to 12. 2
is a read-only memory (ROM) and has an area (region) for storing the above-mentioned controller l1lI (program) and various data. 3 is random access memory (RA)
M) and is used as a work area for CPIII calculation/comparison processing.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a flexible disk (FD) such as a floppy disk, which is a storage medium that stores information such as documents created by the document editing section A, a partner identifier table to be described later, and documents received from the communication terminal section B. 5 is a hard disk (tin) such as an optical disk, and is a storage medium having the same function as the above-mentioned FD4.

6 is a keyboard (KB) consisting of a group of character keys for inputting letters and numbers and a group of function keys for issuing various instructions.
), and the input data entered by the operator from the KB6 when editing a document or creating a peer identifier table is c.
It is communicated to put. 7 is a display device (CRT)
, and displays information such as documents and peer identifier tables on the screen according to instructions from the CPUI. 8 is a printer (PRT) that prints out information such as documents. Reference numeral 9 denotes a communication control unit interface (C(:II)), which performs input/output operations between the document editing section A and the communication terminal section B, such as human output of sent and received documents.

Next, the communication terminal section B will be explained. Reference numeral 10 denotes a document editing unit interface (wpI), which performs input/output operations on the A communication terminal side at the CCIJI'l of the document editing section A. 11 is CPt1 of communication terminal unit B, and ROM1
Various control operations such as calculations and comparisons required by the communication terminal section B are performed in accordance with a control procedure (program) as shown in FIG. 12 stored in advance in the communication terminal section B.

In addition to storing control procedures, the ROM 12 also has storage areas for various data. Reference numeral 13 denotes a RAM, which has a work area for executing a CPIII calculation comparison and a buffer area for transmitting and receiving data. 14 is a serial data input/output device (SIO), which performs human output (10 ).

FIG. 3 shows an example of the arrangement and configuration of programs stored in the ROM 2 of FIG. In the figure, reference numeral 15 is a keyboard manual program, which extracts key manual data from KB6 and notifies the corresponding program. Reference numeral 16 denotes a document editing and creation program, and this program creates and saves a new document, or calls a document stored in the storage medium 4.5 and executes editing processing. 21 is a printing program, which prints the edited document using PRT8. Reference numeral 17 denotes extended function programs, including a communication function program 18 that controls document communication and a partner identifier table creation program 19 that creates a partner identifier table.
Activate extended functions such as

22 is a display program that displays message documents and the like on the screen of the CRT 7; Reference numeral 20 denotes a communication terminal interface program, which performs human output control with the communication terminal device when sending and receiving documents. A document storage program 23 stores documents created by the document editing and creation program 16 and documents received by the communication terminal interface program in a storage medium such as the FD 4 or 1 (D5).

FIG. 4 shows an example of the arrangement and configuration of programs stored in the ROM 12 of FIG. In this figure, 24 is a communication management program, which sends documents created by the document editing department A,
Controls the reception of documents from other external terminals. In this embodiment, this communication management program 24 is particularly
(International Organization for Standardization) supports the recommended communication method for Japanese Teletex equipment based on the 051 model standard.
It implements the data link layer, packet link layer, transport layer, and session layer.

25 is a document editing processing interface program;
It controls the transmission and reception of documents between the communication terminal section B and the document editing section A.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the structure of the partner identifier table described above in FIG. In this embodiment, the communication management program 24
Since it is compliant with the ISO 051 model, the other party identifier table 100 was created with the calling terminal identifier of the session layer as the other party identifier 101. Note that if a one-to-one line-to-terminal relationship is guaranteed, the partner DTE (data terminal equipment) number on the network layer may be used as the partner identifier. The calling party identifier 101, which is the calling terminal identifier of this session layer, is associated with the cabinet salt 102 provided on the storage medium, and as shown in FIG. Register cabinet 102 and DEFAULT cabinet 103.

Next, refer to the flowcharts in Figures 7 to 12! (In Section 4, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be explained in detail.

FIG. 7 shows the main program. First, when the device is powered on, an initialization process is executed in step S1, and an initial menu screen as shown in FIG. 14 is displayed on the CRT 7 in the subsequent step S2. Step S
At step 3, the operator operates the KH2 and selects the desired function on the screen of the CRT7. Once the function is selected by the operator, step 54. S5゜Processing step SS according to the desired function as determined in S7, 59. S8,51
Go to 0. Here, processing steps S6. S8. The explanation of S10 is omitted because it is not directly related to the present invention.

If it is determined in step S4 that the extended function has been selected, the process moves from step S9 to step 511 in FIG.
The expanded screen shown in FIG. 15 is displayed on the CRT 7. The operator operates the KH8 and selects the desired function on the CRT7 screen.

When the operator selects a function, the process proceeds from step 512 to step 513, and if it is determined in step 513 that the communication function has been selected, the process proceeds from step 514 to step 516 in FIG. 9, where the communication screen shown in FIG. 16 is displayed on the CRT 7. indicate.

When the operator selects "retrieve received document" on this communication screen, the process advances from step S19 to step S20, and further, in step S25 of FIG. 10, the received document retrieval screen shown in FIG. 17 is displayed on the CRT 7. Here, if the operator specifies "cabinet specified", the process advances from step 528 to step S27, and step 527
A list of partner identifiers corresponding to FIG. 5 is displayed. When the operator specifies the desired partner identifier with the cursor,
In step 528, a list of documents stored in the cabinet corresponding to the designated party identifier is displayed.

On the other hand, in step 521 of FIG. 9 described above, the CRT 7
If it is determined that the other party identifier registration has been selected on the communication screen, the process proceeds from step S24 to step S32 in FIG. 11, and the other party identifier registration screen shown in FIG. 18 is displayed on the CRT 7. When it is determined that “Register ID” is selected by the operator on this ID registration screen,
Proceeding from step S34 to step S36, the partner identifier and cabinet salt specified by the key input from the keyboard 6 are registered in the partner identifier table of the RAM 3, and further, in step S37, the cabinet salt is stored in the storage medium 4.5.
Create above.

On the other hand, in step 535, on the registration screen of the CRT7, "
If it is determined that “delete partner identifier” is specified, step S
At step 39, when the operator selects a partner identifier that is no longer needed with the cursor, the selected partner identifier and cabinet are deleted from the partner identifier table. Furthermore, the cabinet created on the storage medium in step 540 is also deleted.

The flowchart in FIG. 12 shows the operating procedure when a document is received from the other party's terminal. Note that steps S41 and S42 are controlled by the CPU, and steps S43 to S4 are
6 is controlled by CPU II. First, a line is set up by making a call from the other party's terminal. When the document is received by the serial data input/output device 14 of the communication terminal unit B (step 541)
, adds the other party's terminal identifier (see Figure 13) to the received document, and sends it to CF:tl19 of document editing department A via WPII.
0 (step 542). Document editing department A
Then, the other party's identifier is extracted (step 543), and the other party's identifier table is searched to detect whether or not the received partner's terminal identification number is registered (step 544).

If the other party's terminal identification number is registered in the table, the received document is stored in the cabinet corresponding to the other party's identifier (step 545). On the other hand, if the other party's terminal identification number is not registered in the table, DEFAULT
Save the received document to the cabinet (step 546).
).

In the above description of the embodiment, an example was described in which documents are distributed and stored for each terminal when a document is received from an unspecified terminal, but if the storage medium is further separated for each terminal independently, Storage media can be used more efficiently. For example, a document from terminal A is sent to the cabinet REC of FD4.
Save the document to V-F, save the document from the terminal to RECV-F of the cabinet of 11D5, and PR the document from terminal C.
It can be used to print out on T8. In addition, if the communication partner is limited to a specific partner, an LED (light emitting diode) 30 corresponding to the partner identifier is added to the document editing section A (see Figure 2), and if there is a received document, the corresponding LED When lit, it becomes even clearer whether or not the document is being received from which terminal.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, when receiving a large amount of documents from an unspecified number of terminals, document information can be stored in a predetermined storage area according to the recipient identifier. Therefore, received documents can be easily searched, and the search time can be shortened, making it possible to perform effective file management.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration of a communication terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a document editing section A of FIG. FIG. 4 is a layout diagram showing the program configuration in ROM 2 of communication terminal B in FIG. 2; FIG. 6 is a layout configuration diagram showing the structure of the table; FIG. 6 is a layout configuration diagram showing the file configuration in the received document storage medium 4.5 of FIG. 2; FIG. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operating procedure of the extended screen processing in the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 2; FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operating procedure of the communication screen processing in the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the operation procedure of the received document retrieval screen process according to the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 2, and FIG. FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the processing operation when receiving a document in the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 2, FIG. FIG. 15 is a plan view showing an example of the initial menu screen of the embodiment of the present invention displayed on the RT7 of FIG. FIG. 16 is a plan view showing an example of the communication menu screen of the embodiment of the present invention displayed on the CRT 7 of FIG. 2, and FIG. A plan view showing an example of a menu screen. FIG. 18 is a plan view showing an example of a partner identifier registration menu screen of the embodiment of the present invention displayed on the CRT 7 in FIG. 2. 1.11...CPU ( microprocessor), 2.
12...ROM (read only memory), 3.13
...RAM (random access memory), 4...
FD (flexible disk), 5...1 (D (hard disk), 6...KB (keyboard), 7...CRT (display device), 8...PRT
(Printer), 9...CCIII (Communication control unit interface), lO...WPI (Document editing unit interface)
, 14...510 (serial data input/output device). FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation procedure of communication screen processing in the embodiment. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation procedure. FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the processing operation when receiving a document in the embodiment. Explanatory diagram No.
13 Ward Figure 15 Plan view showing an example of the communication menu screen of the embodiment Figure 16 Figure 17

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A document storage medium having a storage area divided according to a preset destination identifier; A communication terminal device comprising: document storage means for storing the document information in an area of the document storage medium corresponding to the other party's identifier.