JPH01292933A - Facsimile mail delivery completion message sending method - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to facsimile store-and-forward communication, and particularly to a facsimile mail delivery completion message sending method suitable for the mail sender to confirm the completion of mail delivery. It is something.

[Conventional technology]

In facsimile communication using a facsimile storage and forwarding device, facsimile image data from the sender is first received as an e-mail on behalf of the sender, and then the facsimile image data is sent to the other party's facsimile even when the other party's facsimile terminal is in use, out of paper, or malfunctioning. It is designed to be sent (delivered) to the terminal.

By the way, known examples of this type of email include "rPBX and facsimile email" (published by Rick Telecom, Magazine 1 Telecom Uniage 1' A24)
(1986, 9), pp. 59-62). In this case, messages sent to the sender after receiving the e-mail include notifications of completion of reception, notifications of irreverence, and notifications of non-delivery, and these notifications are sent as facsimile information to the sender's facsimile terminal. It has become.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Therefore, in the past, the sender was not notified in a compensatory manner as to whether or not the mail was reliably delivered to the other party.

The information normally known to the sender includes reception completion notifications and non-delivery notifications from the facsimile storage and forwarding device, as well as non-delivery notifications issued at the request of the sender.
Among these, a non-delivery notification is normally issued to the sender only when the facsimile storage and forwarding device repeatedly sends 2a messages but still cannot deliver the information to the other party. Therefore, after a considerable amount of time has elapsed since the call was made, the sender will know that they are out of luck. Non-delivery notifications are a passive feature of mail delivery notification services because the sender is confident that the mail has already been delivered until they are notified of the misfortune.

On the other hand, regarding undelivered notifications, it is impossible to know whether the mail has been delivered unless the user repeatedly makes inquiries until the mail is delivered. In addition to these problems, all of these notifications were sent to the sender's e-mail facsimile terminal, which required the sender to go to a location where the facsimile terminal was not installed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile mail delivery completion message sending system which eliminates the need for a delay on the mail sender's side and allows the mail delivery completion to be easily known when the mail is delivered to the other party.

[Means to solve the problem]

The above purpose is that when the mail is delivered to the other party,
From a facsimile storage and exchange device! (jtll ic
A delivery completion notification boobis is performed, and the completion of the delivery is achieved by being notified by voice to the telephone terminal specified by the caller.

[Effect]

The delivery completion notification service can be selected arbitrarily according to the needs of the sender, and the delivery completion notification can be received at any telephone terminal specified by the sender. When the sender specifies the delivery completion notification service, the facsimile storage and forwarding device accepts and retains the designated telephone terminal number. Based on this, a retrospective connection is made to a telephone terminal, and when the telephone terminal answers, a voice message is sent to send a message indicating that the telephone terminal has responded. Therefore, a single sender can be sure that the delivery of the mail has been completed, and can also know from the nearest telephone terminal.

〔Example〕

The present invention will be explained below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

First, the facsimile storage and forwarding system according to the present invention will be explained. FIG. 1 shows an overview thereof.

As shown in the figure, a telephone terminal 1 and a facsimile terminal 2 as a caller communicate with a facsimile storage and forwarding device 5 via a network 3 such as a subscriber circuit or a private telephone network, while a telephone terminal 1 and a facsimile terminal 2 as a caller communicate with a facsimile storage and forwarding device 5 through a network 3 such as a subscriber circuit or a private telephone network. The other party's facsimile terminal 5 also communicates with the facsimile storage and forwarding device 5 via the network 3.

By the way, as shown in the figure, the facsimile storage and forwarding device [5 is generally composed of a service control section 11, an image data storage device 12, a retrospective facsimile line procedure control section 9, and a message transmission/reception procedure control section 10, but according to the present invention, In addition, a telephone line procedure control section 7 and a delivery completion message transmission procedure control section 8 are added.

Now, to explain the store-and-forward operation with reference to FIG. 2, when the caller calls the facsimile store-and-switch (FMS) 5, the facsimile store-and-switch (FMS) 5 sends a received message to the caller. It is set to be returned. After confirming this acceptance, if the caller specifies a certain service and an optional delivery completion notification service and enters the receiving telephone terminal number, the facsimile storage and forwarding system (FMS) 5 will return a service acceptance completion message. After that, when one data from the sender is accepted, the sender is notified of the completion of the reception. Shun immediately calls the other party's facsimile terminal (FAX-B) 6, but the facsimile terminal (FAX-B) 5 does not respond to this call due to some kind of problem (including when it is busy). '(
In some cases, the call will be made again after a certain period of time has elapsed. If this is a facsimile terminal (F
If AX-B) 6 responds, the service control department (F
MSSVC) 11 stores its own data in the data storage device 12 based on its own data transfer request.

The own data from the sender is read out and transmitted to a facsimile terminal (FAX-B) 6. Once this delivery is completed, the service control unit (FMS)
SVC) 11 is the telephone line procedure control unit 7 and the brother believer 9II
The telephone terminal 1 designated by I is called, and if the caller responds, a delivery completion message is sent from the delivery completion message transmission procedure control section 8. At the same time, the l data that had been accumulated up to that point will be erased.

In this example, the delivery completion notification boobis is designated as necessary at the time of transmission, but it is easily possible to issue it in the facsimile storage/exchange device in advance as deletion ijJ.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, when the facsimile mail sent by the sender is successfully delivered to the other party, a delivery completion notification is notified to the sender by voice. This has the effect that the sender can confirm that the facsimile mail has been delivered to the other party without making any inquiries, and furthermore, can confirm the completion of delivery from the telephone terminal specified by the sender.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overview of a facsimile storage and forwarding system including a facsimile store and forwarding system according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of its storage and forwarding operation sequence. 1...' telephone terminal, 2.6... facsimile terminal,
3...Network, 5...Facsimile storage/exchange device, 7...Speech return procedure control section, 8...Delivery completion message transmission procedure system m section, 9...Facsimile opening procedure control section , 10... message transmission/reception procedure control unit,
11... Service control unit, 12... Image data storage device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile mail delivery completion message transmission method in a facsimile storage and forwarding device that temporarily stores facsimile mail from the sender and then sends the mail to the recipient facsimile terminal. This facsimile mail delivery completion message sending method is characterized in that when transmission is completed, a telephone terminal is called based on a telephone terminal number specified in advance by the sender, and a delivery completion message is sent by voice.