KR970003384B1 - Schedule management method of facsimile system - Google Patents

Abstract

A schedule management method for a facsimile machine inputs a schedule by using a facsimile machine, automatically informs the user of a corresponding schedule at a corresponding schedule time, and automatically prints a content of the schedule. The schedule management method includes the steps of: determining whether the input command is a schedule input key or a list key; if there is an input of the schedule key, storing a schedule time and schedule content to a schedule management memory area; if there is an input of the list key, printing a schedule list stored in the memory area; comparing a stored schedule time with a present time, and informing the user of a schedule content at a corresponding time.

Description

How to manage schedules on facsimile systems

1 is a block diagram of a facsimile system for performing the ball invention.

2 is a facsimile schedule management flowchart according to the present invention.

3 is a detailed flowchart of a schedule setting process of the flowchart of FIG. 2;

4 is an interrupt flow diagram for executing a facsimile schedule in accordance with the present invention.

5A and 5B are diagrams illustrating a schedule management memory and a document buffer.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

12: image input device 14: printer

16 modem 18 central processing unit

20: auxiliary storage device 22: operation panel

The present invention relates to a control method of a facsimile system, and more particularly, to a schedule management method for inputting a schedule using the facsimile system, automatically alerting the time of the schedule, and automatically printing and outputting the contents of the schedule.

In general, the management of the schedule of an individual or a group is carried out depending on the record or memory of the secretary. Today, with the development of the electronics industry, it is possible to manage individual schedules more efficiently. As such, products for managing schedules include electronic organizers and electronic memos.

However, when using an electronic notebook as described above a lot of inconvenience. For example, since the size of the electronic notebook is compact, the size of the keyboard for inputting information is small, making it difficult to input information related to a schedule. In addition, the input information could not be automatically output, so it was inconvenient for the user to check the schedule manually by operating the keyboard, and the contents of the schedule could not be printed.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for managing a schedule of a user using a facsimile.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a schedule management method using a facsimile that automatically prints and outputs the contents of a corresponding schedule while alerting the time of a previously scheduled schedule.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a schedule management method capable of outputting a list of a plurality of scheduled schedules.

The present invention for achieving the above object, the receiving data of the facsimile system having an auxiliary memory device, a printer, control means for controlling transmission and reception, and transmission and reception means for transmitting and receiving data over a telephone line under the control of the control means. In the processing method, a command analysis process for analyzing whether an input command signal is a schedule input input key or a list key, and in response to determining that the signal input in the command analysis process is a schedule input key, time and schedule of the schedule are responded to. A schedule setting process of storing the contents of the schedule in a region of a schedule management memory, a list output process of printing and outputting a list of schedules stored in the memory area in response to determining that a signal input in the command analysis process is a list key; The schedule time stored in the schedule management memory is compared with the current time at a predetermined period. If there is schedule information having the same time is characterized by consisting of a schedule alarm process that alarms this.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram of a facsimile system having an auxiliary memory device for carrying out the present invention, which includes an image input device (Scanner) 12 which reads an image of a document and converts it into an electric signal, and the image input device 12 Modem 16, which modulates and transmits the image data coded according to the CCITT Recommendation, and transmits it to the telephone line, demodulates and outputs the received signal, and prints the data input by predetermined control. A printer (PRN) 14 for outputting the data, an auxiliary memory device 20 for storing data input by predetermined control in an internal recording medium, and outputting data designated to the recording medium; Image data of the original output from the input device 12 is transmitted and received through the modem 16, and the image data and the received data of the original are stored or output in the auxiliary storage device 20. A central processing unit (CPU) 18, the mode selection key and a plurality of control keys, and an OPE for supplying a command control signal according to a user's mode selection to the CPU 18; Operating pannel equipment).

Among the above configurations, the auxiliary memory device 20 may use a floppy disk driver (FDD) or a hard disk driver that is currently used in general, and its configuration and control may be used to control the disk driver in a personal computer. Same as In addition, the OPE 22 includes keys for setting an operation mode of the auxiliary memory device 20. In addition, the image input device 12 has a built-in sensor detection sensor that detects the insertion of the document and outputs it to the CPU (18).

2 is a flowchart of a facsimile schedule management according to the present invention, in which a command analysis process of analyzing whether an input command signal is a schedule input input key or a list key and determining that the signal input in the command analysis process is a schedule input key is shown in FIG. In response to the schedule setting process for storing the time of the schedule and the contents of the schedule in the area of the schedule management memory, and in response to determining that the signal input in the command analysis process is a list key, the list of schedules stored in the memory area is returned. The printing process consists of a list output process.

FIG. 3 is a detailed flowchart of a schedule setting process of FIG. 2, which includes a schedule time storing process of displaying a message for inputting a time and storing the input time in an internal memory; And a document storage process of storing image data of the document in the auxiliary storage device at the time of input. The document storing process may include storing information indicating that a document is input when a document is input and a storage address of the document stored in the storage device in a document buffer set in a schedule management memory.

4 is an interrupt flowchart for executing a facsimile schedule according to the present invention, which is an interrupt routine performed every 100 msec by a timer in the CPU 18, which is in the following order.

The schedule information analysis process of reading the time information stored in the schedule management memory and comparing it with the current time information, and the contents of the document buffer in the schedule management memory when the schedule information analysis process determines that there is the same time information as the current time information. A document search process for searching whether there is a document for a corresponding schedule on the basis of the reference, and a schedule alarm process for reading and printing the contents of the document and printing an alarm when it is determined that there is a document in the document search process.

5A and 5B are configuration diagrams of a schedule management memory and a document buffer. 5A shows the configuration of one schedule management memory. The schedule management memory as described above includes a time area (HH) for storing hour information, a minute area (MM) for storing minute information, the presence and absence of documents, and a document. A document buffer (DOC) for storing information on the storage location of the data is set.

Hereinafter, the operation of an embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5b.

Now, when the user of the facsimile presses a schedule input key installed on the OPE 22 to manage an individual schedule, it is input to the CPU 18. In this case, the CPU 18 operating as shown in FIG. 2 searches for a command input key, that is, a command currently input, that is, an operation key. If the key input in step 22 is determined to be a schedule key, the CPU 18 jumps to step 24 and stores the schedule in the schedule management memory located therein in response to the information input to the OPE 22. 24 processes of FIG. 2 will be described with reference to FIG.

When the schedule setting is started, the CPU 18 outputs a message (eg, HH: MM) to input the time to the indicator of the OPE 22 in the process of FIG. 30. When the user who confirms the information displayed on the display inputs the hour information and the minute information at the scheduled time by using a key located in the OPE 22, the CPU 18 receives the hour information and the minute information input to the OPE 22. The data is stored in the time area HH and the division area MM of the schedule management memory set as shown in FIG. 5A.

In step 30 of FIG. 3, the CPU 18, which inputs and stores the time, reads the output of the document detection sensor in the image input device 12 and checks whether a document is input. If the input of the document is not detected in step 32, the CPU 18 searches whether the input of the document is continuously detected for 5 seconds in step 34. If 5 seconds have elapsed as a result of the search in step 34, the CPU 18 stores only the time information and finishes setting the schedule.

However, if the input of the document is detected within 5 seconds by the above operation, the CPU 18 reads the document, that is, the image data of the original, through the image input device 12 in step 36 and stores it in the auxiliary memory device 20. . Then, the CPU 18 sets and marks the bit of the document buffer DOC set in FIG. 5B in the schedule management memory to indicate that there is a document for the input schedule. At this time, the least significant bit of the document buffer DOC indicates the presence or absence of the document, and the other bits are the earths of the document stored in the auxiliary memory device 20.

After the user inputs the schedule input key by the above operation, when the user inputs a document in which the schedule time and the contents of the schedule are recorded, the input of the corresponding schedule is completed. The schedule that can be input by the above method depends on the storage capacity of the auxiliary memory device 20.

On the other hand, if it is not the schedule input time in step 22 of FIG. 2 described above, the CPU 18 searches whether the list key is input in step 26. If the list key is not input in step 26, the CPU 18 performs the corresponding function in step 29. If the list key is input, the CPU 18 reads the schedule information stored in the internal schedule management memory and formats it as follows.

Then, the schedule list information formatted as described above is output to the PRN 14 and printed out.

In this state, the schedule is executed by a 100msec timer interrupt having the same procedure as in FIG. That is, when the timer in the CPU 18 counts 100 msec, a timer interrupt is generated, and the CPU 18 responds to the timer interrupt, and the schedule management memory having the configuration as shown in FIG. It compares the time information stored therein and searches whether there is schedule information having the same time information. If there is no schedule information with the same time, the CPU 18 terminates the interrupt operation of FIG.

If it is determined in step 38 that the current time and the time information in the schedule information in the schedule management memory are the same, the CPU 18 searches whether the document corresponding to the information of the schedule exists in step 40. Whether or not the schedule is documented is determined by searching whether the least significant bit of the document buffer DOC is "1" as shown in FIG.

If there is a document corresponding to the search result, the CPU 18 reads the document stored in the storage area of the auxiliary memory device corresponding to the information of the document buffer (DOC) and outputs it to the PRN 14 in step 42. The read information is deleted in the process. At this time, the PRN 14 prints out image data of a document output from the CPU 18 and outputs the image data. In operation 46, the CPU 18 outputs an alarm sound indicating that the schedule time is reached through a speaker (not shown).

However, if it is determined that there is no document corresponding to the schedule in step 40, the CPU 18 does not perform the steps 40, 42, and 44 described above, and the current time is changed through a speaker (not shown) in step 46 immediately. The alarm sounds to indicate the schedule time and ends.

Therefore, when the time information of the plurality of schedules stored in the schedule management memory as shown in FIG. 5a and the current time information match, it is possible to alert the schedule by sounding the current schedule time and output the corresponding document.

Although not described in the embodiment of the present invention, it should be noted that the schedule can be managed by receiving the schedule stored in the memory from the outside by the above-described process. For example, the facsimile may be called as a facsimile at a remote location to receive the document of the stored schedule as described above and perform schedule management.

As described above, according to the present invention, the schedule management is performed by using a facsimile having a function of inputting and storing an image of an original and a printing function, which is more accurate than an individual schedule and has the advantage of diversifying the functions of the facsimile. .

Claims (4)

In a received data processing method of a facsimile system having an auxiliary memory device, a printer, control means for controlling transmission and reception, and transmission and reception means for transmitting and receiving data over a telephone line under the control of the control means, an input command signal is received. In response to the command analysis process for analyzing whether a schedule input is an input key or a list key and determining that the signal input in the command analysis process is a schedule input key, the time of the schedule and the contents of the schedule are stored in an area of the schedule management memory. And a list output process of printing and outputting a list of schedules stored in the memory area in response to determining that a signal input from the command analysis process is a list key, and a schedule stored in the schedule management memory at predetermined intervals. By comparing the time with the current time, schedule information with the same time is Schedule management method of a facsimile system as claimed in the schedule alarm constituted by any process of this, if the alarm. The method of claim 1, wherein the schedule setting process comprises: a schedule time storing process of displaying a message for inputting a time and storing the input time in an internal memory; and a document when the document is input after performing the schedule time storing process. A method of managing a schedule of a facsimile system, characterized in that the document storage process for storing the image data of the secondary storage device. The method of claim 2, wherein the storing of the document comprises storing information indicating that the document is input when the document is input and storing address of the document stored in the storage device in the document buffer set in the schedule management memory. To manage the schedule of a facsimile system. 4. The schedule alarming process of claim 1, wherein the schedule alarming process comprises: a schedule information analysis process for reading time information stored in a schedule management memory and comparing the time information with current time information; When it is determined that there is time information of the same schedule as the time information, a document search process for searching whether there is a document for the schedule based on the contents of the document buffer in the schedule management memory, and when it is determined that there is a document in the document search process A schedule management method of a facsimile system, characterized in that it consists of a schedule alarm process for reading the content of the document, printing, and generating an alarm.