TW325548B - Relay-type multimedia data processing apparatus and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A relay-type multimedia data processing apparatus, which can be used to consolidate, manage, store, preview or print multimedia data such as phone, fax, e-mail or electronic file, supply one harbor-like function, in which every kind of multimedia data from everywhere are all docked here by classification, after checking and consolidating doing further processing, and fetters consumer appliance operation interface with user-friendly and easy operation, comprises: (1) One phone apparatus used to dial/receive phone data; (2) One fax apparatus used to receive/send fax data; (3) One input/output apparatus including phone line socket with at least one line, one network socket and at least one parallel port, which can individually used to connect phone line, Internet and PC to receive or send every kind of multimedia data from phone, fax, Internet or PC; (4) One display apparatus displaying message data; (5) One control panel apparatus including multiple numerical keys and multiple function keys, and each function key has drawn simple and easy graph symbol or English abbreviation representing the function key; (6) One printing apparatus, which can print text or graphic message data; (7) One power apparatus, which can supply power; (8) One data storage unit, which can be used to store every kind of multimedia message data, which includes one ROM, one RAM, and one hard disk; in which the ROM is used to store read-only system program, RAM is used to store temporary data with higher repeated access frequency, hard disk is used to supply data storage block with longer time, larger capacity and lower cost, and the system and driver needed by relay-type multimedia message processing apparatus are not store in hard disk; (9) One control unit, which consists of one data access unit(DAA) and one central processing unit(CPU), in which the DAA can consistently manage multimedia message data access and automatically identify message data type, and the CPU is used to consistently control operation of each unit and apparatus; control unit can identify type of every kind of multimedia message data received from I/O apparatus and store it the data storage unit, then generates one index data shown on the display apparatus, user only checks display apparatus to know all index data of every kind of received multimedia message, through function key on the control panel apparatus, used can select control to preview some message data content on display apparatus, print by printing apparatus, send to PC from parallel port of I/O apparatus, or send out by fax apparatus, or used also can decide to reserve some data in data storage unit by operation function key, or delete from data storage unit; besides, the index data of multimedia message at least consists of: input message number(NO), message type(TYPE), message input time(INPUT TIME), message title(TITLE) and message processing status(STATUS) fields.