JPH0220962A - Transmission processing system for facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To transmit an original by a small number of times of redialing by constituting the title system so that when a facsimile equipment which is in the course of holding of redialing receives an incoming call from a reception side facsimile equipment of a redialing destination, the facsimile equipment being in the course of holding of redialing transmits continuously the original set in advance by using its connected line. CONSTITUTION:When a mode inverting signal from a facsimile equipment of a calling side is received and a coincidence detecting means 27 detects a fact that the facsimile equipment of the calling side is a reception side facsimile equipment 40, a mode inverting means 28 switches a communication function which is set by a communication mode setting means 22 to a transmission mode from a reception mode. Subsequently, a transmission/reception processing means 21 executes a processing so that an original 30 set in advance is transmitted continuously to the reception side facsimile equipment 40. In such a way, the original can be transmitted to the reception side facsimile equipment by a small number of times of redialing.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] Regarding a transmission processing method of a facsimile machine that processes a document to be sent to a receiving facsimile machine in a busy state according to a redial function, the facsimile machine transmits a document to a receiving facsimile machine with as few redials as possible. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a notification means for notifying a calling party's facsimile machine that there is a document to be sent when there is an incoming call while waiting for redial processing; a match detection means for detecting whether or not the call is from the receiving facsimile machine, and the communication function is set to receive mode on the condition that the match detecting means detects that the call is from the receiving facsimile machine. mode reversal means for switching from to transmission mode,
This mode reversal means switches the communication function from reception mode to transmission mode at the end of receiving the mode reversal signal sent from the receiving facsimile machine, thereby transferring the set original to the receiving facsimile machine. Configure to send.

[Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a transmission processing method for a facsimile machine that processes a document to be transmitted to a busy receiving facsimile machine according to a redial function. In order to increase the number of users, the system is equipped with a function that automatically redials and calls a busy receiving facsimile machine.

In order to increase the practicality of this dial function,
There is a need to be able to transmit a document set in a receiving facsimile machine with as few redials as possible.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional facsimile machines with dial function,
When the receiving facsimile machine is busy,
The machine periodically performs redialing a certain number of times, and when it confirms that the receiving facsimile machine has been released from the gloomy state according to the redialing, it processes the set document and sends it to the receiving facsimile machine. was.

When confirming that the receiving facsimile machine is not released from the busy state even after this redial is executed, a message to that effect is displayed and the process is terminated. In other words, with conventional facsimile machines, even if a call arrives while waiting for redial processing, the redial processing continues without checking the relationship between the calling facsimile machine and the dialed facsimile machine. It was.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

As described above, in the prior art, even if a call is received from a receiving facsimile machine at a redial destination while waiting for redial, the opportunity is never utilized. Therefore, in such a case, after receiving the facsimile image information from the receiving facsimile device, the facsimile device that is on redial standby will redial the receiving facsimile device on the line to which it was previously connected. This was a wasteful process.

From now on, not only will the number of redials increase, but if the receiving facsimile device becomes busy again after sending facsimile image information, it will not be possible to send documents for a while. There was a problem.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and is a facsimile machine that processes a document to be transmitted to a busy receiving facsimile machine according to a redial function, and is capable of reducing the number of redials as much as possible, and as much as possible. The object of the present invention is to provide a transmission processing method for a facsimile machine that allows a document to be quickly transmitted to a receiving facsimile machine.

[Means to solve the problem]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the principle configuration of the present invention.

In the figure, 20 is a facsimile machine that is executing a redial function, 30 is a document set in the facsimile machine 20 to be sent, 40 is a receiving facsimile machine that is the redial destination of the facsimile machine 20, and 50 is a telephone line. . The facsimile device 20 includes a transmission/reception processing means 21,
It includes a communication mode setting means 22, a timer means 23, a calling dial storing means 24, a redial processing means 25, a notification means 26, a coincidence detecting means 27, and a mode reversing means 28. The sending/receiving processing means 21 includes the receiving facsimile machine 4
0, the communication mode setting means 22 sets the transmission/reception processing means 21 to operate as a facsimile machine in transmission mode or reception mode, and the timer means 23 starts redialing. The calling dial storing means 24 stores the calling dial to be redialed, and the redial processing means 25 stores the calling dial in the calling dial storing means 24 for a predetermined number of times. Periodic transmission/reception processing means 21
The notification means 26 automatically calls the receiving facsimile machine 40 by issuing a message to the facsimile machine 40 on the receiving side, and when there is an incoming call while waiting for redial processing, the notification means 26 informs the facsimile machine on the calling side that there is a document 30 to be transmitted on the facsimile machine on the calling side. The coincidence detecting means 27 detects whether the incoming call waiting for redial processing is from the receiving facsimile machine 40, and the mode reversing means 28 detects whether or not the incoming call waiting for redial processing is from the receiving facsimile machine 40. Processing is performed to switch the communication function set by the communication mode setting means 22 from the reception mode to the transmission mode on the condition that an incoming call is detected from the facsimile machine 40 and a mode reversal instruction signal is detected. .

[Effect]

In the present invention, the notification means 26 notifies an incoming call waiting for redial processing that there is a document 30 to be sent to the facsimile machine on the calling side. After the information transmission is completed, a message end signal (EOM signal) is sent instead of a procedure end signal (EOP signal). When the reception of this message end signal is confirmed, the sending/receiving processing means 2
1 enters the reception process again. When the mode reversal signal is received from the calling facsimile machine, the mode inverting means 28 sets the communication mode when the coincidence detecting means 27 detects that the calling facsimile machine is the receiving facsimile machine 40. The communication function set by means 22 is switched from reception mode to transmission mode. Then, the transmission/reception processing means 21 processes the set document 30 to successively transmit it to the receiving facsimile machine 40 according to the set transmission mode.

In this way, in the present invention, when a facsimile machine that is waiting for redialing receives a call from a receiving facsimile machine that is a redial destination, the facsimile machine that is waiting for redialing receives a call from the receiving facsimile machine that is the redial destination.
Since the set originals are processed to be sent one after another, the originals can be sent to the receiving facsimile machine with fewer redials and can be sent faster.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail according to examples.

FIG. 2 shows a system configuration diagram for realizing a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

As shown in this figure, the facsimile machine 20 of the present invention has a network control unit 1 that is included in a conventional facsimile machine.
1 dial generation section 2, modem section 3, memory section 4, control section 5, code encoder section 6, reading section 7, recording section 8, clock section 9, and in addition, a coincidence detection section 10. Become. This loss detection unit 1O corresponds to the coincidence detection means 27 described in FIG. Processing is performed to detect whether or not the receiving facsimile device 40 is the previous facsimile device.

Next, an overview of the processing of the present invention will be explained according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

When detecting that the receiving facsimile machine 40, which is the destination of the original document 30, is in a busy state, the control unit 5 stores the telephone number of the receiving facsimile machine 40 in the memory unit 4, as shown in step 1. Redial standby processing will begin. Then, in step 2, it is determined via the network control section 1 and modem section 3 whether there is an incoming call from another facsimile machine. If it is determined in step 2 that there is an incoming call, proceed to step 3.
Executes incoming call processing. At this time, the originating facsimile machine is notified that there is a document to be sent, indicating that it is possible to reverse the sending and receiving operation.

Subsequently, as shown in step 4, the transmission/reception processing means 21 determines whether a transmission/reception reversal instruction has been received from the calling facsimile machine. If it is determined in step 4 that there is no mode reversal instruction, the process proceeds to step 5 and performs the normal reception operation.After reception is completed, the mode reversal instruction is sent by returning to step 3 and starting the reception operation procedure. Process it so that it comes. When the mode reversal instruction is detected in step 4 in this way, the coincidence detection unit 10 detects the telephone number of the incoming call and the redial target stored in the memory unit 4, as shown in step 6. By comparing the telephone number with the telephone number, it is determined whether the calling facsimile machine is the receiving facsimile machine 40 of the dial destination. If it is determined in step 6 that the call is not from the receiving facsimile machine 40, the control unit 5 executes communication termination processing as shown in step 7.
Process to return to step 1. On the other hand, if it is determined in step 6 that the call is from the receiving facsimile machine 40, the process proceeds to step 8, where the control unit 5 reverses the reception mode to the transmission mode, and in the subsequent step 9, The original 30 set on the original table is sent to the receiving facsimile machine 40, and finally, in step 10,
Cancels the redial process and ends the process.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 2 that there is no incoming call from another facsimile machine, the process proceeds to step 11, where the control section 5 determines the next dialing timing by counting the clock generated by the clock section 9. wait. Then, when the redial timing comes, as shown in step 12, the control section 5 makes a call to the receiving facsimile device 40 of the telephone number stored in the memory section 4 via the dial generation section 2. Process. Next, step 1
In step 3, it is determined whether or not the busy state of the receiving facsimile device 40 has been confirmed to have been released in the process of step 12, and if the busy state has been released, the process proceeds to step 14, and the document 30 set on the document table is The received facsimile machine 40 receives the received facsimile. On the other hand, if the busy state has not been released as determined in step 13, the process returns to step 1, and the control section 5 attempts the number dialing a predetermined number of times.

As described above, in the present invention, when the facsimile machine 20 that is on standby for redialing receives a call from the receiving facsimile machine 40 that is the redial destination, the set document 30 is continuously transferred using the connected line. It processes the data so that it is transmitted.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5, a description will be given of how the flowchart in FIG. 3 is implemented in accordance with the CCITT transmission procedure. Here, the fourth
The figure shows the receiving facsimile device 4 while waiting for redial.
FIG. 5 is a time chart of the process when there is an incoming call from 0, and FIG. 5 is a time chart of the process when there is an incoming call from a facsimile machine other than the receiving facsimile machine 40 while waiting for redial.

First, FIG. 4 will be explained. In this figure, “
A” is facsimile machine 2 that is executing the redial function.
0, and 'B'' is the receiving facsimile machine 40 of the redial destination.

"A" facsimile machine is waiting for redial when "B"
When called from the facsimile machine, the "A" facsimile machine sends a CHD signal to the 1B" facsimile machine as shown by ■.
It notifies the "B" facsimile machine of its own telephone number using the 3I signal and its receiving function using the DIS signal.

At this time, in the present invention, the DIS signal is also used to notify that there is a document 30 to be transmitted. However, since the TS signal has not yet been sent from the "B" facsimile machine, the °"A"A" facsimile machine merely informs that it has the document 30 to be transmitted.

When this CST/DIS signal is received at ■ in the figure, 'B
``The facsimile machine receives the DIs signal from the
"A" to inquire about the transfer of the right to transmit the facsimile device after the transmission of its own facsimile image information is completed.
Preparations are made to send the ROM signal to the facsimile machine. And “B” facsimile machine is
As shown in (3), in response to the C5I-DIS signal, the TSI signal informs the facsimile machine "A" of its own telephone number and the DO3 signal the selected function. With this TSI signal, The "A" facsimile machine recognizes that the facsimile machine that called it is the "B" facsimile machine.

When the "B" facsimile machine notifies this TSI/DC3 signal, it subsequently notifies the TCF signal (training check) as before, confirms that the response CFR signal is returned, and then "A" facsimile image information (transmitted by the facsimile device itself) (PIX in the figure)
signal).

Then, as explained in ■, without immediately notifying the EOP signal of the procedure end signal even if the document to be sent is exhausted (as shown in ■),
Process to notify the ROM signal.

When the "A'" facsimile machine receives this ROM signal, it notifies the MCF signal indicating completion of reception. Then, as explained in (■), since the connected facsimile machine is known to be the dialed facsimile machine "B", it is time to send it back to send the document 30 set there. When receiving this DIS signal, the ``B'' facsimile machine sends a notification requesting the transfer of the transmission right using the DIS signal of ■.
The transmission right is transferred to the "A" facsimile machine using the C signal. Through this process, the "A" °° facsimile device changes from the previous receiving mode to the transmitting mode, so the document 30 set therein is processed to be sent to the original destination, the "°B" facsimile machine. .If,■
If the calling party's telephone number TSI is not sent,
The CIG of the phone number is used to determine whether the phone number matches. Then, when all the originals 30 have been sent, "B" is displayed as shown by ■.
``The EOP signal is sent to the facsimile machine, and when the MCF signal is returned, the DCN signal is sent and the line is disconnected.

On the other hand, in FIG. 5, the facsimile machine "C" indicates that the receiving facsimile machine 40 is not the redial destination. From now on, after the transmission of the facsimile image information is completed, the process remains the same until the "C" facsimile machine transfers the transmission right to the "A" facsimile machine.
C"The TSI or CIG sent from the facsimile device is different from the redial destination number, so as shown by ■,"
A” The facsimile machine immediately notifies the DCN signal,
The line will be disconnected.

According to the transmission procedure described above, the processing in the flowchart of FIG. 3 will be concretely implemented.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, when a facsimile machine that is on standby for redialing receives an incoming call from a receiving facsimile machine that is a redial destination, the facsimile machine that is on standby for redialing uses the connected line. However, since the set originals are processed to be sent successively, the originals can be sent to the receiving facsimile machine with fewer redials and can be sent faster.

[BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS] Fig. 1 is a principle configuration diagram of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention, Fig. 3 is a flowchart of the execution of the present invention, and Figs. 4 and 5 are a diagram of the present invention. 2 is a time chart of processing. In the figure, 1 is a network control section, 2 is a dial generation section, 3 is a modem section, 4 is a memory section, 5 is a control section, 6 is a section 41, and 7
8 is a reading unit, 8 is a recording unit, 9 is a clock unit, 10 is a coincidence detection unit, 20 is a facsimile machine, 25 is a redial processing unit, 26 is a notification unit, 27 is a coincidence detection unit, 28 is a mode reversing unit, and 30 is a 40 is a receiving facsimile machine, and 50 is a telephone line.

Claims (1)

[Claims] By redialing the calling dial a predetermined number of times, the receiving facsimile device (40) in a busy state is called, and when the cancellation of the busy state is confirmed in accordance with this call, the set document is (30) to the receiving facsimile machine (40), when there is an incoming call while waiting for redial processing, the facsimile machine (20) sends the document (30) to be sent to the calling facsimile machine. ) to notify that there is a notification method (
26), and this incoming call is sent to the receiving facsimile machine (4).
0), a coincidence detection means (
27), and mode reversing means (27) for switching the communication function from reception mode to transmission mode on the condition that the coincidence detection means (27) detects an incoming call from the receiving facsimile machine (40). 28), at the time when the mode reversal means (28) finishes receiving the mode reversal signal sent from the receiving facsimile machine (40) in accordance with the notification from the notification means (26), A transmission process of a facsimile device, characterized in that the set document (30) is transmitted to the receiving facsimile device (40) by switching a communication function from a reception mode to a transmission mode. method.