JPS63123119A - Message display system for distributed processing system computer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display a message at a message displaying device with a different form by transmitting routine message including a message identifier and an address identifier with a returning side computer, and using a displaying form identifier registered according to the form of a message displaying device and executing the editing with a receiving side computer. CONSTITUTION:When a message to be transmitted to a computer Ca occurs at a computer Cb, a message transmitting means 1b transmits an address identifier, a message identifier and variable information d1, d2...dn necessary to the message to the computer Ca. A message displaying means 2 of the computer Ca compares the address identifier and address identifiers #1, #2...#n of an address-classified displaying form table 3, finds the coincident identifier and determines a displaying form identifier corresponding to the address identifier. Next, the message displaying means 2 edits and determines the displaying message from a message table 4 based on the displaying form identifier, the message identifier of a transferring message and the variable information d1, d2...dn.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a message display method for a distributed processing computer that transfers messages between a plurality of computers and displays the messages.

The present invention is utilized in a distributed processing system including a computer equipped with a plurality of message display devices that display messages in different formats.

〔overview〕

The present invention provides a message display method for a distributed processing computer in which a message is transferred between multiple computers and displayed, in which a sender computer sends a fixed-form message including a message identifier and a destination identifier, and a receiver computers can display messages on message display devices of different formats by editing them using the display format identifier registered on the format side of the message display device, thereby simplifying management and improving message transfer efficiency. It is something to do.

[Conventional technology]

The display format of a displayed message generally differs depending on the type of message display device used or the user's request. For example, whether the display is a 1-byte code or a 2-byte code, or whether the display is in Japanese or English.

Conventionally, in a computer on the sending side of a message, a program creates the message in advance as a display message according to the format to be displayed and sends the message. The computer on the receiving side displayed the received display message as is on the message display device.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, in the conventional system, the message sending computer also needs display format information for each message display device connected to the receiving computer or for each user. Therefore, information is distributed throughout the distributed processing system, which has the disadvantage of making management complicated. Furthermore, although a display message consists of a predetermined common part and a variable part, it is wasteful to always transfer the entire common part.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve these problems and provide a message display method for a distributed processing computer that is easy to manage and has a good transfer effect because information is less dispersed and messages have less redundancy.

[Means for solving problems]

According to the present invention, a first computer equipped with a plurality of message display devices that display messages in different formats and a second computer that transmits messages to be displayed on the message display devices are interconnected via a communication line. In the message display method of a distributed processing computer, the above message is of a fixed form including a message identifier and a destination identifier, and the above first computer is a first computer which has registered a display format identifier in the display destination of the above message. and a second table in which this display format identifier, the above message identifier, and the above display message are registered, and a display message in a predetermined format using these two tables.
The present invention is characterized by comprising a message display means for editing into a message.

[For production]

In a distributed processing system, there are generally very few first computers equipped with message display devices compared to second computers to which messages are sent. Therefore, if the second computer sends a fixed message, and the first computer on the user's side edits the format of the displayed message to the desired format, the program and memory of the second computer can be simplified and transferred. Rume・
The amount of sage can be reduced.

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a distributed processing computer to which a display message transfer method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

First computer Ca and second computer c b
, -1---1Cn are respectively connected via communication lines 6, and message display devices 5a of different formats are connected to the computer Ca,---157! are connected to each other. second computer c b , −
------2Cn has the message display device 5a, ------15I, respectively! , a message transmitting means 1b, -1---1) for transmitting a message to
It is equipped with n.

Here, the feature of the present invention is that each computer C
The message sent by Cn is in a fixed format including a message identifier and a destination identifier, and the computer Ca has a message display means 2, a first table 3, which is a destination display format table 3, and a second table 3. Message table 4 is provided.

The first table, a display format table by destination, is shown in FIG. 3, and the second table, a message table, is shown in FIG.

Now, when a message to be sent to the computer Ca is generated from the computer cb, the message sending means 1b sends a destination identifier, a message identifier, and variable information d necessary for this message in the message transfer format shown in FIG.
, , d 2, ------1 d i on computer C
Send to a. The format of the transferred message shown in FIG. 2 has been agreed upon in advance between computers Ca and cb. In addition, this forwarded message does not include common parts of the displayed message, such as sentences or titles that indicate the meaning of the message, which are uniquely determined by the message identifier, and variable parts of the displayed message, For example, it includes the necessary number of parts that cannot be determined by the message identifier alone, such as the time when the displayed message occurred or the value of a variable.

The destination identifier in the forwarded message transferred from the computer cb by the message display means 2 of the computer Ca and the destination identifiers #1, #2, #2 in the display format table 3 for each destination
-1--1#n are compared to find a match, and a display format identifier corresponding to the destination identifier is determined.

The display format identifier is independent of the message identifier and determines the format of common parts of the displayed message, such as whether to display it in English or Japanese.

Next, the message display means 2 similarly edits and determines the display message from the message table 4 based on the display format identifier, the message identifier of the forwarded message, and the variable information d, , d2, -------1d7. . Finally, the message display means 2 displays this display message on the corresponding message display device (any one of 58 to 5j!) based on the destination identifier of the forwarded message.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, the information that determines the message display format is not distributed to each computer, so there is no need for redundant management and there is no need to transfer redundant parts of the message. . Therefore, there is an effect that the management of the entire distributed processing system is reduced and the efficiency of transfer is improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a distributed processing computer according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram of the format of a transferred message in this embodiment. Figure 3 is a diagram showing the structure of the message table. FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a display format table for each destination. ■b~In...Message sending means, 2...Message displaying means, 3...Display format table by destination, 4.
Message table, 5a to 5β Message display device, 6 Communication line, Ca first computer, CbxCn second computer. Example block configuration diagram Fig. 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A first computer equipped with a plurality of message display devices that display messages in different formats and a second computer that transmits messages to be displayed on the message display devices are interconnected via a communication line. In the message display method of a distributed processing computer, the above-mentioned message is of a fixed form including a message identifier and a destination identifier, and the above-mentioned first computer stores a first table in which display format identifiers are registered for each display destination of the above-mentioned message. and a second table in which the display format identifier, the message identifier, and the display message are registered, and message display means for editing the display message into a predetermined format using these two tables. A message display method for distributed processing computers.