KR100292090B1 - Method for automatically controlling automatic redial times in accordance with the ratio for successing connection of automatic transmission in a facsimile machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An automatic control method of the number of automatic re-dialing of a facsimile according to an automatic transmission success ratio is provided to automatically control the automatic re-dialing frequency according to receiving telephone numbers. CONSTITUTION: An automatic control method of the number of automatic re-dialing of a facsimile according to an automatic transmission success ratio includes the steps of checking a number of times of automatic transmission connection fail within an automatic re-dialing number preset in a receiving telephone number(103), automatically resetting the preset automatic re-dialing number after increasing if the number of times that the receiving telephone number is failed to be connected is higher than a previous number of times of fail(104,105), re-trying the connection for the automatic transmission according to the reset number of times of the automatic re-dialing(107), and storing the automatic transmission result according to the success or failure of the connection try for the automatic transmission(108).

Description

METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING AUTOMATIC REDIAL TIMES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RATIO FOR SUCCESSING CONNECTION OF AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION IN A FACSIMILE MACHINE}

The present invention relates to a facsimile, and more particularly, to a method for automatic transmission of a facsimile.

In general, the facsimile is composed of the components shown in Figure 1 to perform a variety of functions, the components of such a general facsimile will be described with reference to FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a general facsimile, where the CPU 10 controls the overall operation of the facsimile according to a set program. The memory unit 12 stores telephone numbers or image data, and temporarily stores data generated when the program is executed. OPE (OPERATING PANEL) 14 has a plurality of function keys and numeric keys, and applies key data according to the pressing of the keys to the central processing unit 10, and displays an operation state under the control of the central processing unit 10. With a device. The scanner 16 reads the original and supplies the image information to the CPU 10 when the original is supplied. The modem 18 performs analog modulation on the transmission data under the control of the CPU 10, and demodulates the analog reception data. The LIU (LINE INTERFACE UNIT) 20 is operated under the control of the CPU 10 to form a call loop of a telephone line, and interfaces the signal of the modem 18 with the signal of the telephone line. The printer 22 prints the image data on the recording paper under the control of the central processing unit 10.

A facsimile composed of the above components can transmit and receive a document through communication with a counterpart facsimile, and its functions are also variously developed and provided for each facsimile device and a company that launches a facsimile device. If the user wants to send the document to the other party's facsimile, the user can send the document by selecting one of various transmission functions according to the facsimile transmission function where the user is located. Examples of the various transmission functions provided by the facsimile include a manual transmission in which a user sends a document after talking to the other party, a speed dial or one-touch dial without searching the other party, or a memory phone number search. Automated transmission that automatically transmits just by selecting a telephone number, and advanced transmission functions include memory transmission, multiplex transmission, delayed transmission, relay transmission, mailbox transmission, and polling transmission. If the user selects automatic transmission, the fax transmits the designated document to the receiving side according to the automatic transmission selected by the user. During the automatic transmission, the user does not confirm whether communication with the receiving side for the document transmission proceeds normally. You can set the number of automatic redials so you don't have to. The reason for setting the number of automatic redials is to automatically redial at a predetermined time interval when the receiving side is busy or does not answer a call when automatically transmitted. This automatic redial function is a very useful function to provide the user's convenience and communication trust during automatic transmission. Therefore, the conventional facsimile machine can arbitrarily set the number of automatic redials in case of primary connection failure with the receiving side during automatic transmission. It was. The conventional automatic redial number setting method according to the conventional automatic fax transmission uses a method of manually inputting a desired number manually by selecting an automatic redial number setting mode when a user wants to initialize or change a function. However, the conventional automatic redial number setting method according to the automatic fax transmission has the inconvenience that the user must determine and reset the connection success rate with each receiving telephone number according to the automatic transmission. In addition, there may be a case in which the fax of a specific receiving telephone number is not always connected due to a large amount of calls. In this case, automatic redialing according to conventional fax automatic transmission is unconditional unless the user resets the number of automatic redials. There is a problem of redialing only the number of times initially set. Therefore, in the related art, since the receiving side facsimile is not considered at all, unless the user checks the connection failure caused by frequent calls or answering the phone during automatic transmission, there is a problem in that it cannot provide a more useful facsimile.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to automatically check the connection failure rate caused by the receiving side facsimile is frequently busy or not answering the call in the facsimile which provides the automatic sending function, and automatically counts the number of automatic redials for each receiving telephone number. This paper provides a method for automatically adjusting the number of automatic redials according to the automatic transmission connection success rate in the facsimile.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for adjusting the number of redials in a facsimile in which the number of automatic redials is set for each receiving telephone number according to the automatic transmission. During transmission, checking the number of times the automatic transmission has not been made within the number of automatic redials previously set in the specific receiving telephone number, and attempting connection for automatic transmission based on the reset number of automatic redials. And, it is characterized in that the process of storing the automatic transmission result according to the success and failure of the automatic transmission access attempt.

1 is a block diagram of a typical facsimile

2 is a control flow chart for automatically adjusting the number of automatic redials according to the automatic transmission connection success rate in the facsimile according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention, such as specific processing flows. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. Detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that are determined to unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

Prior to the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the facsimile component for implementing the present invention is the same as that shown in FIG. The difference in operation between the general facsimile and the facsimile component according to the present invention will be described in detail below.

2 is a control flow chart for automatically adjusting the number of automatic redials according to the automatic transmission connection success rate in the fax according to the embodiment of the present invention,

After setting the automatic sending mode, specifying a specific receiving telephone number to which the document is to be sent, checking the number of times of connection failure before the specified specific receiving telephone number;

Resetting the number of automatic redials by a predetermined number and automatically resetting when the number of automatic transmission access failures before the specific receiving telephone number is more than a certain number of times;

Attempting to connect for automatic transmission based on the reset number of automatic redials;

The automatic transmission access attempt consists of a process of storing the automatic transmission result according to success and failure.

1 and 2 will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

In order to apply the present invention, an automatic redial number and an automatic redial time interval are set in advance in a facsimile provided with an automatic transmission function. Then, in step 101, the CPU 10 checks whether the automatic transmission mode is selected when the user selects the automatic transmission mode, and proceeds to step 103 in the automatic transmission mode, and proceeds to step 102 if the automatic transmission mode is not selected. Perform. If the automatic transmission mode is selected, in step 103, the central processing unit 10 selects the automatic transmission, and then designates a specific receiving telephone number. Check if it is done. The initial automatic redial setting frequency refers to the number of automatic redials set in advance when the automatic transmission is initialized by the fax. In this case, the central processing unit 10 checks whether each automatic transmission to the specific receiving telephone number according to the automatic transmission is performed within the initial automatic redial setting frequency, for each receiving telephone number used in the automatic transmission. The automatic transmission information for each receiving telephone number stored in the memory unit 12 in which the connection success rate is stored is read and inspected. As a result of the checking, if the automatic transmission up to the transfer for the specific receiving side phone number has been made within the initial automatic redial setting number, the process proceeds to step 106, and the automatic transmission up to the transfer for the specific receiving side phone number is initially automatic redialed. If it is not within the set number of times, go to step 104. In the case of proceeding from the step 103 to the step 106, the automatic transmission until the transfer to the specific receiving side phone number is all made within the initial automatic redial setting number. If the process proceeds to the step 103 to 104, It is the case that the automatic transmission until the transfer to the specific receiving telephone number is not made within the initial automatic redial setting frequency more than once. Then, in step 104, the central processing unit 10 informs the memory unit 12 whether the number of times of automatic transmission access failure in which automatic transmission is not performed at the same number as the specific receiving telephone number designated by the user for automatic transmission is greater than or equal to a specific number of times. Search and check the automatic transmission information for each stored receiving telephone number. In this case, the specific number used refers to the number of times of automatic transmission connection failure that is specified in advance at the time of initial setting in order to apply the present invention. As a result of the automatic transmission information search for each of the receiving telephone numbers stored in the memory unit 12, the number of automatic transmission access failures for which automatic transmission was not performed at the same number as the specific receiving telephone number designated for automatic transmission is more than a specific number of times. In step 105, if the number of automatic transmission access failures in which the automatic transmission is not performed at the same number as the specific receiving telephone number designated by the user for automatic transmission is less than or equal to a specific number, step 106. In step 105, the CPU 10 automatically resets the number of automatic redials by a predetermined number and proceeds to step 107. The automatic redial number reset is automatically set to, for example, [previous automatic redial number + one time]. In step 103, all the automatic transmissions to the specific recipient's telephone number before the transfer are made within the initial automatic redial setting number, or in the same number as the specific recipient's telephone number designated by the user for automatic transmission in step 104, automatically. If the number of unsuccessful automatic transmission access failures is equal to or less than a certain number of times, the process proceeds to step 106. In step 106, the central processing unit 10 designates to maintain the initial automatic redial number setting value. Thereafter, in step 107, the CPU 10 performs automatic transmission based on the initial automatic redial number setting value of step 106 or the automatic redial number reset value of step 105. At this time, the central processing unit 10 automatically dials the document receiving side. If the primary connection fails on the receiving side, the facsimile machine automatically redials the maximum number of automatic redial times at a predetermined time interval. Done. Thereafter, in step 108, the CPU 10 stores the automatic transmission result information of the specific receiving telephone number in the designated storage area of the memory unit 12. The memory utilization may be increased by storing the information on the memory 12 only when the connection fails when the automatic transmission result information is stored for the specific receiving telephone number. In this case, the connection failure information stored when the result of the automatic transmission access failure is stored is stored as, for example, [the number of connection failures until the transfer of the corresponding receiving party number + 1].

As described above, the present invention automatically checks the connection success rate (the number of connection failures) that occurs when a receiving side fax is frequently busy or does not answer a call in the facsimile providing the automatic sending function. In a facsimile that automatically adjusts the number of redials, an automatic redial number automatic adjustment method according to an automatic transmission connection success rate will be described as an example to which the present invention is applied. If the user sets the automatic transmission redial, the number of automatic redials is set up to three times, the time interval for redialing after the first connection failure is set to three minutes, and the specific number of times for automatic redial reset is set three times. When resetting auto redial, set the number of auto redial increments to one. Then, if the user designates a specific receiving party's telephone number [02-123-4567] for automatic transmission, the central processing unit 10 stores the number of times of automatic transmission access failure for the telephone number of [02-123-4567]. It reads out from the designated storage area of App. 12 and searches. If the central processing unit 10 recognizes that the number of times of automatic transmission access failure for the telephone number of [02-123-4567] is four, the central processing unit 10 sets the automatic value set by the user when the automatic transmission initialization is set. Since the number of automatic redials is three or more times, which is a specific number of times for redialing the transmission redial, the number of automatic redials is added to the initial set value three times and the number of automatic redial increments is reset to four times. When the number of automatic redials is reset as described above, the CPU 10 attempts to access the telephone number of [02-123-4567] for automatic transmission based on the reset number of automatic redials. At this time, when the telephone number of [02-123-4567] is busy or does not answer the call, the central processing unit 10 recognizes the failure of the primary connection and sets a predetermined time interval of 3 minutes which is preset at the time of initializing the automatic transmission. If the connection is still waited and the connection still fails, the connection is attempted up to four times, the maximum automatic redial setting. If the access of the telephone number of [02-123-4567] is successful and automatic transmission is made, the telephone number of [02-123-4567] is stored in the memory unit 12, which is the reset number of automatic redials. [02-123-4567] when the CPU 10 recognizes the final failure of the automatic transmission connection due to the failure of the connection to the fourth order because the connection to the fourth transmission fails. [Number of connection failures up to +1] of the telephone number is stored in the automatic transmission information storage area of the telephone number of [02-123-4567], and then ends.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the present invention provides a method for automatically adjusting the number of automatic redials according to the automatic transmission connection success rate in a facsimile, wherein the receiving success rate during the automatic transmission is frequently caused by a busy or unanswered call. By automatically checking and automatically adjusting the number of automatic redials for each receiving telephone number, there is an effect that the user can safely and conveniently use the fax for document transmission.

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In a method for adjusting the number of redials in a fax in which the number of automatic redials is set for each of the receiving telephone numbers according to the automatic transmission, Checking the number of unsuccessful automatic transmission accesses within the number of automatic redials previously set in the specific receiving telephone number when the automatic transmission was previously performed for the specific receiving telephone number for which the automatic transmission is set; , Resetting the number of automatic redials by a predetermined number and automatically resetting when the number of failed automatic transmission accesses to the specific receiving telephone number is greater than or equal to a specific number; Attempting to connect for automatic transmission based on the reset number of automatic redials; A method for automatically adjusting the number of automatic redials according to the automatic transmission access success rate in a facsimile, characterized in that the automatic transmission result is stored according to the success and failure of the automatic transmission access attempt. The method of claim 1, If the number of automatic transmission access failures before the specific receiving telephone number is less than or equal to the specific number, the process of attempting automatic transmission access according to the number of automatic redial preset to the specific receiving telephone number is further performed. A method for automatically adjusting the number of automatic redials according to the automatic transmission connection success rate in a facsimile. In the fax in which the number of automatic redials according to the automatic transmission of the receiving telephone number is set for each receiving telephone number, Each time an automatic transmission is made to the receiving telephone number, a process for checking the automatic transmission access success rate before the telephone number is checked by examining a storage area in which failed transmission attempt attempt information is stored before dialing the receiving telephone number; , An automatic redial number reset process of increasing the number of automatic redials by a predetermined number when the number of failed automatic transmission access attempts by the automatic transmission access success rate check for the telephone number is more than a predetermined number; Specifying that a predetermined number of automatic redials is maintained if the number of failed automatic transmission access attempts is equal to or less than a specific number of times; Attempting to access an automatic transmission after resetting and maintaining an automatic redial number of the telephone number; Attempting to connect as many times as the number of automatic redials at regular time intervals when the telephone number is not first accessed; Storing a result according to the automatic transmission access failure in the storage area in which the automatic transmission access attempt failure information for the telephone number is stored when the connection is failed by attempting to access the number of automatic redials set in the receiving telephone number. Automatic adjustment of the number of automatic redials according to the automatic transmission connection success rate in the facsimile characterized in that consisting of. The method of claim 3, Method for automatically adjusting the number of automatic redials according to the automatic transmission access success rate in a facsimile, characterized in that the access failure information stored when storing the result according to the automatic transmission access failure is [the number of connection failures until the transfer of the corresponding receiving party number + 1]. .

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