JPS6390936A - Message communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make contents easily visible to a user by editing such communication control information as a transmitter's name, a receiver's name, a title, etc., and delivering it to a terminal. CONSTITUTION:A DS (document storage) report read out and generated from a disk memory device 15 is brought to format-editing so as to be easily visible to the user. That is to say, only consecutive numbers are read out of the disk memory device 15 in which the information of DS is stored, they are arranged in order, thereafter, a receiver's name, a title, a transmitter's name, etc., corresponding to the respective consecutive numbers are read out successively, and formed to a format and edited. In order to deliver the DS report edited to a format, to a terminal requesting it, a CD (control document) which becomes its address information is generated. Subsequently, the CD is added to the DS report brought to format editing and sent to a transmitting buffer 13, and the DS report brought to format editing is delivered, based on the CD.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention relates to a message communication system.

<Prior Art> Conventionally, in message communication systems, a storage device is provided in a center communication device, and messages are stored in the storage device and transmitted and distributed between users.

At this point, an inquiry may be made as to what kind of messages are stored in the storage device, but in the past, in response to this inquiry, the information manually entered into the storage device was sent as is, so it was difficult for the user to do so. had the disadvantage that this content was very difficult to read.

<Purpose> The present invention aims to eliminate the drawbacks of the above-mentioned prior art, and when distribution of communication control information such as sender's name, recipient's name, title, etc. is requested, communication control information is transmitted so that the user can easily see it. This provides a message communication system that can edit and distribute messages.

<Example> Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 to 3 are telematic terminals such as teletex for sending and receiving character code data or facsimiles for sending and receiving image data; A host computer 5 to 7 is a center of a message communication system that stores messages and transmits and distributes them between users. Reference numerals 5 to 7 are communication lines connecting the telematics terminal 1 3 and the host computer 4.

The host computer 4 includes a main control section 103 that controls the entire system; a communication control section 11 that controls the connection between the communication lines 5 to 7 and the host computer 4; A reception buffer memory 12 for storing messages during reception and transmission. A transmission buffer memory 13, a main fQ device 14 for storing communication control information and communication data. It is composed of a disk storage device 15 such as an optical disk.

CCITT (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee) Recommendation X, 43
0 contains documents and documents in the message communication system.
A storage (hereinafter referred to as DS) function is defined.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a message communication system having multiple telematic terminals. A message is delivered to a terminal based on a trigger.

The telegrams transmitted and distributed between the telematics terminal and the message communication system are in the form of a control document (hereinafter referred to as CD) followed by a normal document (hereinafter referred to as ND), as shown in FIG.

A CD is a collection of control information necessary for communication, such as the sender's name, recipient's name, and message contents, in the form of a message.
refers to communication data such as image data and character code data.

Below, from the terminal of the message communication system to the main storage device 1
An inquiry about the DS stored in the host computer 4, that is, an inquiry about what kind of message is stored in the host computer 4 will be explained.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the main control section 10 at that time.

In FIG. 1, it is assumed that the operator performs a DS inquiry operation from the telematics terminal 1. Then, the DS inquiry message is stored in the reception buffer 12 via the communication control section 11 in the form of the aforementioned CD, and then stored in the main storage device 14 under the control of the main control section 10 in S1.

Next, the main control unit 10 analyzes the CD of the message in S2, and determines in S53 whether the sent CD is a DS inquiry. If it is determined in S3 that it is a DS inquiry, the process proceeds to 34 and searches for the disk recording IJ device 15 where the DS exists. CD sent in S3
or DS inquiry, proceed to S5 and check each C
Perform processing corresponding to D.

In S6, based on the search from disk storage]5, D
Create an S report. Here, in the disk storage device 15, the DS information is stored in the order in which the CDs are sent so that the main control section 10 can perform processing quickly. Therefore, if a DS report is simply created based on the 35 searches and delivered as is to the terminal, it will be difficult for the user to view as shown in FIG.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the DS report is read from the disk storage device 15 and the created DS report is formatted and edited at 37 to make it easier for the user to view.

Here we will explain how to edit the format. First, only serial numbers are read from the disk storage device 15 in which DS information is stored, and they are arranged in order. Thereafter, the recipient name, 1M topic 1 sender name, etc. corresponding to each serial number are sequentially read out, formatted, and edited.

FIG. 6 is a format-edited diagram of the DS report of FIG. 5.

In S8, the format is E! C, which is the destination information for distributing the DS report to the terminal that made the request.
Create D.

Then, in S9, the format-edited DS report is added with the CD created in step 38, and sent to the transmission buffer 13. At SIO, the D format is edited based on the CD.
Distribute the S report.

As described above, according to the message communication system of this embodiment, when an inquiry is made to the host computer 4 about what kind of message there is, a DS report whose format has been edited as shown in FIG. 6 is delivered. This makes it very easy for the user to see.

In addition, in the above-mentioned embodiment, if there is a message that you do not want to be included in the DS report, you can do so by adding a message to that effect on the CD.
When searching in FIG. 254, the entry of the message in the DS report can be removed.

<Effects of the Invention> As explained above, in a message communication system having a plurality of telematic terminals, users can This has the effect of making the content easier to see for people.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a flowchart of the main control unit shown in Fig. 1 when a DS inquiry is received, and Fig. 3 is a message communication system having a telematics terminal. Figure 4 is a diagram showing the structure of messages sent and received by telematics terminals, Figure 5 is a conceptual diagram of
The figure shows an example of a DS report, and FIG. 6 is an edited version of the DS report in FIG. 1 to 3 are telematic terminals, 4 is a host computer, 5 to 7 are communication lines, 10 is a main control unit, 11 is a communication control unit, 12 is a reception buffer memory, 13 is a transmission buffer memory, 14 is a main storage device, 15 is a disk storage device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] a means for storing communication control information and communication data from a telematics terminal; a means for communicating communication data based on the communication control information; and a means for editing the communication control information stored in the storage means; A message communication system characterized in that when distribution of communication control information is requested, communication control information edited by the editing means is distributed.