KR20170063207A - Apparatus for blocking spam fax data - Google Patents

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KR20170063207A
KR20170063207A KR1020150169311A KR20150169311A KR20170063207A KR 20170063207 A KR20170063207 A KR 20170063207A KR 1020150169311 A KR1020150169311 A KR 1020150169311A KR 20150169311 A KR20150169311 A KR 20150169311A KR 20170063207 A KR20170063207 A KR 20170063207A
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Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for connecting a fax and a PSTN network via a communication line, displaying facsimile data received through a PSTN network to a user, outputting only facsimile data requested to be output by a user operation through a facsimile, Fax data to a PSTN network.
According to the present invention, the spam document blocking device blocks the fax data received from the transmission destination corresponding to the blocking information from being output via fax, and in the case of the fax data of the transmission destination not registered in the blocking information, So that only the fax data requested by the user is sent to the facsimile, so that the output of the spam document via the fax can be blocked in principle and the consumption of consumables such as toner and output paper consumed due to the output of the spam document can be prevented The spam document blocking device is located between the PSTN network and the fax machine and is connected through a communication line and the converting section converts the analog fax data received through the PSTN network to a digital fax Data format, and when the user requests output through the operation unit, And the fax data received from the fax is directly transferred to the PSTN network. Therefore, the use of the analog fax data is still maintained, so that the existing fax can be used, , It is possible to minimize the cost incurred in constructing the system for blocking the spam document while maintaining the existing fax number.

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[0001] APPARATUS FOR BLOCKING SPAM FAX DATA [0002]

The present invention relates to a spam document blocking device.

Description of the Related Art [0004] A multifunction machine (hereinafter referred to as a fax machine) having a facsimile or fax function is a device for transmitting and receiving various documents and images through a communication line. As the use thereof is generalized not only to government offices, Despite the development of other communication means, it is still used as an important communication means.

In recent years, the number of advertisement companies that send spam documents via faxes has increased rapidly, and accordingly, the frequency of receiving the spam documents of faxes has also increased, and the number of spam documents has increased. There is a problem that the consumption of the consumables is unnecessarily generated and the output of the document required by the user is delayed due to the output of the spam document. Therefore, studies for blocking the reception and the output of the spam document received through the fax are active .

As a part of this technical research, in Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0653058 (published on June 12, 2006, announcement date: 2006.12.01, hereinafter referred to as "prior art"), And the output of the document is blocked when the document is received from the transmission destination corresponding to the stored transmission destination information.

However, in the prior art, in order to prevent the blocking of the spam document, the existing fax needs to be replaced with a fax to which the conventional technique is applied. Therefore, the cost of replacing the fax is incurred, In addition, since the conventional technology does not block the output of the spam document through the internally stored transmission destination information, there is a problem in that the output of the spam document received from the transmission destination in which the transmission destination information is not stored can not be prevented there was.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a spam document blocking device that originally blocks the output of a spam document via a facsimile while using an existing facsimile.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a spam document interception device including a first port connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and a second port connected to a fax, A communication unit; An operation unit for generating a control signal according to a key input; A storage unit for storing fax data received through the first port; A display unit for outputting fax data stored in the storage unit; And a control unit for controlling the communication unit, the operation unit, the storage unit, and the display unit, wherein the control unit transmits fax data received from the fax through the second port to the PSTN network through the first port, The facsimile data received from the PSTN network through the first port can be transmitted to the facsimile through the second port only when receiving a control signal requesting output of the facsimile data from the operation unit.

Here, the fax data received through the PSTN network and the communication unit may be fax data in the form of analog data.

The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a facsimile unit operable to transmit facsimile data stored in the storage unit to the facsimile apparatus, the facsimile apparatus being connected to the communication unit to perform analog-digital and digital-analog conversion of the facsimile data, And a converting unit for transmitting the facsimile data received from the facsimile through the second port to the PSTN communication network through the first port.

The communication unit may further include a third port that is connected to the first port and the second port and connects the first port and the second port to the conversion unit.

The control unit converts the fax data in the form of analog data received through the first port and the third port into the fax data in the form of digital data through the conversion unit and stores the fax data in the storage unit, The facsimile machine converts the facsimile data stored in the storage unit into an analog data form and transmits facsimile data converted into an analog data form to the facsimile machine through the third port and the second port, As shown in Fig.

As described above, the present invention has the following effects.

First, the spam document blocking device is located at the front end of the communication line of the fax, and the facsimile data received from the transmission destination corresponding to the blocking information is prevented from being outputted through the facsimile through the blocking information according to the transmission destination identification code, In the case of the fax data of the transmission destination which is not the destination, the contents of the fax data are provided to the user, and only the fax data requested by the user is sent to the fax, so that the output of the spam document via the fax can be originally blocked. It is possible to prevent the consumption of consumables such as toner and output paper consumed.

Second, the spam document blocking device is located between the PSTN network and the fax machine and is connected through a communication line. The converting section converts the analog fax data received through the PSTN network to a digital fax data form When the user requests the output through the operation unit, the facsimile data is converted into an analog form and transmitted to the facsimile. In the case of the facsimile data received from the facsimile machine, the facsimile data is directly transmitted to the PSTN network. Therefore, it is possible to use existing faxes, thereby minimizing the cost incurred in constructing a system for blocking spam documents, and blocking spam documents while maintaining the number of fax numbers used in the past.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a spam document blocking apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 shows a flow of fax data when a spam document blocking device according to an embodiment of the present invention transmits fax data received from a PSTN network by fax.
FIG. 3 shows a flow of fax data when a spam document blocking device according to an embodiment of the present invention transmits fax data received from a fax to a PSTN network.

The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which the technical parts already known will be omitted or compressed for simplicity of explanation.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a spam document blocking apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a spam document blocking apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 shows a flow of fax data when a spam document blocking device according to an embodiment of the present invention transmits fax data received from a fax to a PSTN network.

The spam document interception device 100 may include a communication unit 110, an operation unit 120, a storage unit 130, a display unit 140, and a controller 150. [

The communication unit 110 can relay the fax data transmitted and received from the PSTN network 200 and the facsimile 300 and can include the first port 111, the second port 112 and the third port 113 have.

In addition to the PSTN network 200, the communication unit 110 may be connected to an Internet network through wired / wireless communication. The communication unit 110 may communicate with a fax service server (not shown) To a fax service server (not shown).

The first port 111 may be connected to the PSTN network 200 through a communication line and the second port 112 may be connected to the fax 300 through a communication line. Port 111 and the second port 112, and may be connected to the conversion unit 160, which will be described later.

 The operation unit 120 may generate a control signal according to the user's key input and transmit the control signal to the control unit 150, which will be described later.

Here, the operation unit 120 may be provided in the form of a touch panel coupled to the display unit 140, which will be described later.

The operation unit 120 requests the output of the facsimile data so that the facsimile data received from the PSTN network 200 via the first port 111 and the third port 113 is output via the facsimile 300 And transmits the generated control signal to the controller 150, which will be described later.

The storage unit 130 may store the facsimile data received through the first port 111 and the third port 113. [

The display unit 140 may visualize the document stored in the storage unit 130 and provide it to the user.

The control unit 150 controls the communication unit 110, the operation unit 120, the storage unit 130, the display unit 140 and the conversion unit 160 to be described later and includes a control unit 151 and a confirmation unit 152 do.

The control unit 151 controls the communication unit 110, the operation unit 120, the storage unit 130 and the display unit 140 and transmits spam information corresponding to the transmission destination identification code of the fax data received from the PSTN network 200 And store it in the storage unit 130.

Here, the spam information may include a transmission destination identification code of a fax data transmission destination received from the PSTN network 200 via the first port 111 and the third port 113.

The transmission destination identification code may include the fax number of the transmission destination to which the fax data is transmitted through the PSTN network 200. [

The confirmation part 152 checks whether the spam information corresponding to the transmission destination identification code of the fax data received from the PSTN network 200 among the spam information stored in the storage unit 130 exists.

If the confirmation part 152 determines that spam information corresponding to the transmission destination identification code of the fax data received from the PSTN network 200 exists among the spam information stored in the storage part 130, The fax data is deleted from the storage unit 130.

If the confirmation part 152 determines that there is no spam information corresponding to the transmission destination identification code of the fax data received from the PSTN 200 network among the spam information stored in the storage part 130, ) Outputs the facsimile data through the display unit 140.

The confirmation part 152 confirms whether the transmission destination identification code in the spam information stored in the storage 130 is similar to the transmission destination identification code of the fax data received from the PSTN network 200, It is checked whether the fax data is spammed.

The converting unit 160 is connected to the communication unit 110 and can perform analog-digital and digital-analog conversion of the fax data.

The converting unit 160 can transmit the facsimile data received from the facsimile 300 to the PSTN communication network 200. [

The conversion unit 160 is connected to the third port 113 of the communication unit 110 so that the conversion unit 160 converts the analog data format received from the PSTN network 200 via the first port 111 and the third port 113 The facsimile data of the digital form stored in the storage unit 130 can be converted into the facsimile data of the analog form.

Here, analog fax data refers to facsimile data transmitted and received in the PSTN network 200 and the facsimile 300, and the facsimile data in the digital form is converted by the converting unit 160 into facsimile data in analog form, And converts the converted fax data to be output through the display unit 140. [

That is, upon request for output through the operation unit 120, the conversion unit 160 converts the digital form of the facsimile data stored in the storage unit 130 into analog form of facsimile data under the control of the control unit 151 3 to the fax 300 via the third port 113 and the second port 112 so that the fax 300 can operate as if it received the fax data directly through the PSTN network 200, In the case of facsimile data received via the second port 112 and the third port 113 from the facsimile 300, the received analog fax data is transmitted to the third port 113 and the first port 113, The PSTN network 200 is transmitted to the facsimile machine 100 via the facsimile machine 111, so that it is possible to transmit the facsimile data through the facsimile machine 300, which does not require confirmation of the spam or contents of the facsimile transmission.

2 and 3, a process in which the spam document blocking device according to the embodiment of the present invention transmits fax data received from the PSTN 200 network to the FAX 300, The process of transmitting the received fax data to the PSTN network 200 will be described.

For simplicity of explanation, the above-mentioned analog type facsimile data and digital type facsimile data are respectively referred to as analog facsimile data and digital facsimile data.

The control unit 151 controls the converting unit 160 to convert analog fax data received from the PSTN network 200 via the first port 111 and the third port 113 into digital fax data, (130).

Then, the confirmation part 152 confirms whether or not the fax data received from the PSTN network 200 is spam based on the spam information stored in the storage unit 130 and the transmission destination information of the digital fax data.

Here, if the confirmation part 152 confirms that the digital fax data is spam, the control part 151 deletes the corresponding digital fax data from the storage part 130.

If the confirmation unit 152 determines that the digital fax data is not spam, the control unit 151 displays the digital fax data through the display unit 140. [

When the user confirms the contents of the digital fax data through the display unit 140 and requests the output of the digital fax data by operating the operation unit 120, the control unit 120 controls the control unit 120, Converts the digital fax data stored in the storage unit 130 into analog fax data and outputs the analog fax data to the third port 113 and the second port 113 of the communication unit 110 by controlling the conversion unit 160 according to a signal, To the facsimile 300 via the port 112.

If the user confirms that the content of the digital fax data displayed through the display unit 140 is spam and requests the generation of new spam information by operating the operation unit 120, the control unit 151 controls the operation unit 120, generates spam information including a transmission destination identification code of a transmission destination of the digital fax data, stores the generated spam information in the storage unit 130, and deletes the digital fax data in the storage unit 130.

3, in the case of the analog fax data received from the facsimile 300 through the second port 112 and the third port 113, the control part 151 controls the converting part 160 And transmits the analog fax data received from the fax machine 200 to the PSTN network 200 through the first port 111. [

As a result, the present invention prevents the fax data received from the transmission destination corresponding to the blocking information from being output through the facsimile, and in the case of the fax data of the transmission destination not registered in the blocking information, When the user requests the output of the specific fax data through the operation unit, only the corresponding fax data is transmitted to the facsimile, so that the output of the spam document via the fax can be essentially blocked, and the toner consumed due to the output of the spam document The spam document blocking device is located between the PSTN network and the fax machine and is connected through a communication line, and the converting section converts the analog fax data received through the PSTN network to spam Convert to digital fax data format for storage and display on document cutout When the user requests the output through the operation unit, the facsimile data is converted into an analog form and transmitted to the facsimile. In the case of the facsimile data received from the facsimile machine, the facsimile data is directly transmitted to the PSTN network. Therefore, the present invention provides a spam document blocking device capable of minimizing the cost incurred in constructing a system for blocking a spam document by using an existing fax, and blocking a spam document while retaining a fax number used in the past.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. And the scope of the present invention should be understood as the following claims and their equivalents.

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A communication unit connected to the communication network and having a first port connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) network and a second port connected to a fax;
An operation unit for generating a control signal according to a key input;
A storage unit for storing fax data received through the first port;
A display unit for outputting fax data stored in the storage unit; And
And a control unit for controlling the communication unit, the operation unit, the storage unit, and the display unit,
Wherein the control unit transmits the facsimile data received from the facsimile through the second port to the PSTN network through the first port and the facsimile data received from the PSTN network through the first port, And transmits the facsimile data to the facsimile apparatus via the second port only when the control signal requesting the output of the facsimile data is received.
Spam document blocking device.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the facsimile data received through the PSTN network and the communication unit is facsimile data in the form of analog data
Spam document blocking device.
3. The method of claim 2,
The facsimile machine according to claim 1, further comprising: a facsimile unit operable to transmit the facsimile data stored in the storage unit to the facsimile apparatus, And a converting unit for transmitting the facsimile data received from the facsimile through the first port to the PSTN communication network
Spam document blocking device.
The method of claim 3,
The communication unit may further include a third port connected to the first port and the second port and for connecting the first port and the second port to the conversion unit.
Spam document blocking device.
5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the control unit converts the fax data in the form of analog data received through the first port and the third port into the fax data in the form of digital data and stores the fax data in the storage unit through the conversion unit, Converts the facsimile data stored in the storage unit into an analog data form and transmits the facsimile data converted to the analog data form to the facsimile through the third port and the second port when the control signal requesting the output is received Characterized in that
Spam document blocking device.
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