JPH04213149A - Terminal output control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To unnecessitate the connecting operation of an output terminal with each on-line program, and to output the data of plural on-line programs without occupying the output terminal, as for the outputting processing of the output data of an on-line program processing system to the terminal. CONSTITUTION:The output data from on-line programs 7-1-7-3 are temporarily registered in a storage area 6 at every terminal identification name by an output data registering part 2. Then, a terminal 8 exclusive for the output of the terminal identification name which is required for the output from the on-line programs 7-1-7-3 is turned into an outputting state by a terminal managing part 3, and the output data taken out from the storage area 6 are outputted from a terminal outputting part 5 to the terminal 8 exclusive for the output.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a terminal output control system, and more particularly to a method for controlling data output to a terminal requested by a plurality of online programs.

0002

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in the process of outputting data to a terminal in an online program processing system, it is necessary to connect the terminal to the corresponding online program before outputting the output data. If the terminal is not connected to the terminal, the output data is saved in the main storage area or the auxiliary storage area, and the output data is output when the terminal is connected to the corresponding online program.

[0003] In such a conventional online program processing system output data processing method to a terminal, if the destination terminal of the output data is being used by another online program, the output data is held until the terminal becomes connected. Since the output data is stored in the main storage area or the auxiliary storage area, the capacity of the main storage area or the auxiliary storage area becomes enormous, and the management of the output data to be saved becomes complicated.

[0004] Furthermore, when a terminal is connected to a corresponding online program in order to be able to output output data at all times, there is a problem that this terminal becomes an exclusive terminal for one online program, and the use of the terminal becomes difficult. requires a person to connect and disconnect the device from multiple online programs.

[0005]

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made in order to eliminate the problems of the conventional ones as described above, and it is possible to eliminate the need for connecting an output terminal to each online program, and the output terminal is occupied. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a terminal output control system that can output data from multiple online programs without causing problems.

[0006]

[Configuration of the Invention] A terminal output control system according to the present invention includes:
a storage means for storing output data from a plurality of online programs to a terminal in association with identification information of a terminal to which the output data is output; and an output means connected to the terminal and outputting the output data to the terminal; , when the terminal and the output means are in a connected state, the output data is read from the storage means according to the terminal identification information of the terminal, and the output data is controlled to be output from the output means to the terminal. It is characterized by having a means.

[0007]

[Embodiment] Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, an online processing system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an output data registration unit that registers output data from online programs 7-1 to 7-3 in a storage area 6 for each terminal identification name of an output-only terminal 8. 2 and
A terminal management unit 3 that controls each part to output the output data from the online programs 7-1 to 7-3 to the output-only terminal 8, and the online programs 7-1 to 7-3 output to the output-only terminal 8. an output data deletion unit 4 that deletes the output data from the storage area 6; and a terminal output unit 5 that outputs the output data registered in the storage area 6 to the output-only terminal 8.
and a storage area 6 for storing output data from the online programs 7-1 to 7-3.

FIGS. 2 and 3 are flowcharts showing the operation of one embodiment of the present invention. The operation of an embodiment of the present invention will be explained using FIGS. 1 to 3.

When the terminal management unit 3 is notified of a connection request from the user to the output-only terminal 8 used in each of the online programs 7-1 to 7-3 (step 11 in FIG. 2),
The terminal management unit 3 stores the terminal identification name and connection state of the output-only terminal 8 that received the notification (step 12 in FIG. 2).

[0011] Output processing of output data from the online programs 7-1 to 7-3 is performed by inputting the terminal identification name of the output-only terminal 8 to which the output data is to be sent from each online program 7-1 to 7-3 requesting data output. The process is started by issuing a data output request consisting of and output data and activating the output data registration unit 2 (step 13 in FIG. 2).

[0012] When the output data registration unit 2 is activated in response to the issuance of a data output request from the online programs 7-1 to 7-3, the output data registration unit 2 registers the online program 7 for each terminal identification name.
After registering the output data from -1 to 7-3 in the storage area 6, the terminal management unit 3 is notified of the terminal identification name and an output request is made (step 14 in FIG. 2).

The terminal management unit 3 determines whether or not the output-only terminal 8 with the terminal identification name requested for output is already in the output state based on the stored terminal identification name and connection state of the output-only terminal 8. (Step 15 in FIG. 2), if the output-only terminal 8 is already in the output state, the output data registered in the storage area 6 is output as an extension of the data output process currently being output.

On the other hand, if the output-only terminal 8 is not in the output state, the terminal management unit 3 sets the output-only terminal 8 to the output state (step 16 in FIG. 2), and retrieves the first output data registered in the storage area 6. (Step 17 in FIG. 3), notifies the output data and the terminal identification name to the terminal output unit 5 to request output.

The terminal output unit 5 outputs the output data received from the terminal management unit 3 to the output-only terminal 8 specified by the terminal identification name (step 18 in FIG. 3), and outputs the output data to the output-only terminal 8. When the process is completed, the output completion notification and the terminal identification name are sent back to the terminal management section 3.

When the terminal management section 3 receives the output completion notification and the terminal identification name from the terminal output section 5, it passes the terminal identification name to the output data deletion section in order to delete the completed output data from the storage area 6. 4 (Figure 3 step 19)
.

When the output data deletion unit 4 is activated by the terminal management unit 3, it deletes the first data of the output data registered in the storage area 6 corresponding to the terminal identification name received from the terminal management unit 3 ( Figure 3 step 20).

When the output data that has been outputted is deleted from the storage area 6 by the output data deletion unit 4, the terminal management unit 3 determines whether or not there is any unoutputted output data in the storage area 6 (step 21 in FIG. 3). If there is unoutputted output data in the storage area 6, the output data registered in the storage area 6 is retrieved again (step 17 in FIG. 3), and the output data and the terminal identification name are notified to the terminal output unit 5. Request output.

If there is no unoutput data in the storage area 6, the output state of the output-only terminal 8 is canceled (step 22 in FIG. 3), and the data output process for the terminal identification name requested for output is completed.

In this way, the output data from the plurality of online programs 7-1 to 7-3 to the output-only terminal 8 and the terminal identification name of the output destination of the output data are registered in the storage area 6 in association with each other, When the output-only terminal 8 and the terminal output unit 5 are connected and the output-only terminal 8 is set to the output state, the storage area 6
The output-only terminal 8 and the terminal output unit 5 are connected by extracting output data corresponding to the terminal identification name from the terminal and outputting the output data from the terminal output unit 4 to the output-only terminal 8. If the output-only terminal 8 is in the output state, the output-only terminal 8 can be used from any of the online programs 7-1 to 7-3, so the output to each online program 7-1 to 7-3 can be The connection operation of the dedicated terminal 8 can be made unnecessary, and the output-only terminal 8 is not occupied by one online program 7-1 to 7-3, and multiple online programs 7-
It is possible to output data from 1 to 7-3.

[0021]

As explained above, according to the present invention, output data from a plurality of online programs to a terminal and identification information of the terminal to which the output data is output are stored in association with each other, and the When an output means for outputting to the terminal is connected, the stored output data is read out according to the terminal identification information of the terminal and outputted from the output means to the terminal. It is possible to eliminate the need to connect the terminal to
This has the effect of making it possible to output data from a plurality of online programs without occupying the terminal.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanatory diagram of symbols]

2 Output data registration section 3 Terminal management section 4 Output data deletion section 5 Terminal output section 6 Storage areas 7-1, 7-3 Online program 8 Output-only terminal

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Storage means for storing output data from a plurality of online programs to a terminal in association with identification information of a terminal to which the output data is output, the storage means being connected to the terminal and storing the output data to the terminal. an output means for outputting;
When the terminal and the output means are in a connected state, a control means reads the output data from the storage means according to terminal identification information of the terminal, and controls the output data to be output from the output means to the terminal. A terminal output control system comprising: