JPS63120543A - Message exchange system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically and efficiently process message transmission/ reception between an English letter terminal equipment and a KANA (Japanese syllabary) terminal equipment by providing a means converting a sent message of a terminal equipment having a KANA character input/output function from a KANA character into a Roman letter and converting a reception message from a Roman letter into a KANA character sentence. CONSTITUTION:A KANA character terminal equipment 10 consists of an input section 3, an output section 4, an input/output control section 5 and a communication control section 7, converts a KANA character sentence of a sent message given from a processing section 13 into a Roman letter sentence and is provided with a transmission conversion section 11 giving the result to communication control and a reception conversion section 12 converting the Roman character sentence of the reception message into a KANA character sentence and giving it to the processing section 13. Thus, the user of the KANA character terminal equipment 10 can exchange a message with the English letter terminal equipment 20 while using a KANA character and the operability of the user is improved.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] 〔overview〕 This is an improvement to the message exchange method between various terminal devices.

To provide a means for converting a transmitted message from a terminal device having a kana character input/output function from kana characters to a Roman character text, and a means for converting a received message from Roman characters to a Kana character text.

With this method, the exchange of easily readable messages between the alphabetic character terminal device and the kana character terminal device is automatically and efficiently processed.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a message exchange method for a system having various terminal devices.

Demand for exchanging messages between terminal devices in systems that used to be operated independently has increased in recent years, and there is also a need to exchange messages between terminal devices that can display alphabetic characters and kana characters. The number is increasing.

[Prior art and problems to be solved by the invention] FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a message exchange system.

Each terminal device 2 connected to the switching network 1 sends information specifying the partner terminal device to the switching network 1 by a predetermined signal, thereby establishing a connection with the designated partner terminal device 2.

Subsequently, by transmitting a data signal of a required message, messages are exchanged between opposing terminal devices through the configured connection.

As shown in the figure, each terminal device 2 has an input section 3 consisting of a keyboard or the like, and an output section 4 consisting of a display device, a printer device, etc. It is composed of a control section 5, a processing section 6, a communication control section 7, and the like.

The processing unit 6 receives code information representing characters, symbols, function designations, etc. input from the input unit 3 via the input/output control unit 5. For example, the input characters, symbols, etc. is displayed on the output section 4 via the input/output control section 5, and
It is stored and held in the processing unit 6, and the function designation code is interpreted to perform the designated processing.

When a message exchange specification in a predetermined format including a destination specification is input, the processing unit 6 instructs the communication control unit 7 to connect to the exchange network 1 and send out the specified destination address via the communication control unit 7. By doing so, the terminal device 2 is connected to the other party's terminal device 2 through the switching network 1.

The processing section 6 then displays each character code of the message data inputted from the input section 3 on the output section 4 as described above until a disconnection designation is input, and also displays the character codes of the message data inputted from the input section 3 as is. It is transmitted to the other party's terminal device 2 via the switching network 1.

Further, when a message sent from the partner terminal device 2 is received via the communication control section 7, it is outputted and displayed on the output section 4 immediately.

When called from another terminal device 2, when the communication control section 7 identifies it by a predetermined signal from the switching network 1,
The communication control unit 7 notifies the processing unit 6, and thereafter the processing unit 6 processes message transmission and reception in the same manner as described above.

In terms of character types, the terminal device 2 includes a so-called alphabet terminal device that only has input/output functions for alphabetic characters, symbols, numbers, etc., and a so-called kana terminal device that has katakana or hiragana kana characters and related symbols in addition. There are character terminal devices, and some of the latter are further equipped with a kana-kanji conversion function so that they can input and output Japanese characters mixed with kanji.

When such various types of terminal devices 2 are connected to the exchange network 1 and messages are exchanged with different types of terminal devices, in order to make it possible for them to be commonly understood by using the type of characters that they have in common. However, it is common practice to send and receive messages written in Roman characters by agreement.

In such an operation, there is a problem that the user of the kana character terminal device is difficult to use because he or she has to input and read Roman characters with which he or she is relatively unfamiliar.

[Failure to solve the problem]

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

It shows the configuration of an exchange system in which a silly character terminal device 10 and other terminal devices 20 are connected to a switching network 1,
In the kana character terminal device 10, 3 is an input section, 4 is an output section, 5 is an input/output control section, 7 is a communication control section, and 11 is a processing section. A transmission converter 12 converts the Roman characters of the received message into a kana character and passes the message to the communication control unit.

[For production]

In the terminal device 10, the processing section 13 processes input/output data with the human output control section 5 in the same manner as in the past.

When transmitting a message, the processing section 13 controls the communication control section 7 as in the conventional manner, and passes the message to the transmission conversion section 11 when the connection with the other party's terminal device is completed.

The transmission conversion unit 11 sequentially converts the kana characters in the message into Roman characters and passes them to the communication control unit 7, and the communication control unit 7 transmits them as in the conventional manner.

The message received by the communication control section 7 is sent to the reception conversion section 12.
passed to.

=6- The reception conversion section 12 converts the Roman characters in the message into kana characters and passes it to the processing section 6, which outputs this to the output section 4 via the input/output section 5.

This method allows the user of the kana character terminal device 10 to exchange messages with the alphabetic character terminal device 20 using kana characters.

〔Example〕

In the terminal device 10 of FIG. 1, an input section 3, an output section 4,
The input/output control section 5 and the communication control section 7 are similar to those of the conventional terminal device 2, and the processing section 13 processes human output data with the input/output control section 5 in the same way as the conventional processing section 6. .

When the processing section 13 identifies the message exchange designation from the input section 3 in the same manner as described above, it controls the communication control section 7 to establish a connection with the other party's terminal device in the exchange network 1.

Thereafter, the processing section 13 passes the transmission message received from the input/output control section 5 to the transmission conversion section 11.

The transmission conversion section 11 sequentially converts the kana characters in the message into Roman characters and passes them to the communication control section 7, and the communication control section 7 transmits the messages in the conventional manner.

Conversion from kana characters to romaji can be easily processed in a manner similar to known code conversion using, for example, a conversion table.

Also, if necessary, the transmission conversion unit 11 adds, at the beginning of the message,
It is assumed that a predetermined control character indicating that the text is in Roman characters is added and transmitted.

The other party's terminal device also always transmits Japanese text messages as Roman characters, and if necessary, displays the Roman characters in advance as described above.

In the kana character terminal device 10, the message received by the communication control unit 7 is passed to the reception conversion unit 12.
2, if the message is in Roman characters, converts the Roman characters into kana characters and passes it to the processing section 6, which outputs it to the output section 4 via the input/output section 5.

This conversion can also be processed, for example, using a conversion table method.

In the above configuration, the functions of the transmission conversion unit 11 and reception conversion unit 12 are provided in the terminal device as described above, but the same effect can be obtained even if they are provided in the switching network 1. I can do it.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, it is possible to make a significant contribution to improving the operability of a user of a kana character terminal device in a system for exchanging messages between a kana character terminal device and an alphabetic character terminal device. It has a positive effect.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an example of a conventional configuration. In the figure, 1 is a switching network, 2.20 is a terminal device, 3 is an input section, 4 is an output section, 5 is an input/output control section,
6.13 is a processing unit, =9-7 is a communication control unit, 8 is a communication line, 10 is a fleeting character terminal device, 11 is a transmission conversion unit, 12 is a reception conversion unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a system that has a plurality of terminal devices (10, 20) and processes message exchange between the terminal devices, a message sent by the terminal device (10) having a function of inputting and outputting kana characters. means (11) for converting kana characters in a message received by the terminal device (10) into roman characters; and means (12) for converting the roman characters in a message received by the terminal device (10) into kana characters. message exchange method.