JP2907633B2 - External designation method of multifunction telephone via electronic exchange - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for externally specifying a multifunction telephone via an electronic exchange, which specifies a multifunction telephone connected to the electronic exchange using an external computer connected to the electronic exchange.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to efficiently use a large number of telephones in a premises, a dedicated exchange system is used. This system comprises analog telephones 21,. And multifunctional telephone 23,
, 24 are connected to the electronic exchange 11 and the external computer 12. The control of the display of the multi-function telephones 23,..., 24 is performed by using the external computer 12.

On the other hand, each of the multi-function telephones 23,..., 24 has a plurality of key switches 23 as shown in FIG.
Among the numbers 1 to 236, the extension number 1000 is assigned to the key switch 231 and the extension number 1100 is assigned to the key switch 232 (the other key switches 233 to 236 are similarly assigned with other numbers). Different extension numbers). That is, a plurality of extension numbers are usually assigned to one multi-function telephone 23. On the other hand, a plurality of multifunction telephones may correspond to the same extension number.

When a plurality of multifunction telephones correspond to the same extension number, the external computer 12 sends the electronic exchange 1
1 by sending an instruction to the multi-function telephone 23,.
, 24, the extension number cannot be used as a method of instructing the target multifunction telephones 23,..., 24. Therefore, conventionally, as a method of designating the multifunction telephones 23,.
The slot number indicating the insertion position of the I / F card 113 to which the multi-function telephones 23,..., 24 are connected, and the position in the I / F card 113 are used.

[0005]

However, the above-mentioned method of designating the multi-function telephones 23,..., 24 is a method of designation based on a hardware configuration such as a slot number, so that the model of the electronic exchange 11 differs. In this case, since the hardware configuration is different, the control program for the external computer 12 (the program for controlling the multifunction telephones 23,..., 24) is different from the program corresponding to the difference in the hardware configuration of the electronic exchange 11. Had to be done.

The electronic exchange 11 includes an I / F card 11
The correspondence between the data (slot number, etc.) related to hardware such as No. 3 and the data (extension number, etc.) related to the multi-function telephones 23,..., 24 is stored therein as configuration data. .., 24 are selected based on the stored configuration data. Therefore, when the connection of the multifunctional telephones 23,..., 24 is changed, it becomes necessary to simultaneously change the configuration data on the electronic exchange 11 side and change the control program on the external computer 12 side. However, it was difficult to adjust the schedule for both changes.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic exchange capable of designating a multifunctional telephone without being affected by differences in the hardware configuration of the electronic exchange. To provide a method for externally specifying a multi-function telephone via the Internet.

[0008]

According to the present invention, there is provided a method for externally specifying a multifunctional telephone via an electronic exchange, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of multifunctional telephones classified into a plurality of groups;
A method for specifying a plurality of multi-function telephones using an external computer connected to the electronic exchange, wherein the multi-function telephone is connected to the electronic exchange. , An identification number consisting of a group number for identifying the multi-function telephone and a number within the group, and the group number is sent from the external computer to the electronic exchange .
Only identification number or group number and group number
The electronic exchange transmits the multi-function telephone corresponding to the identification number transmitted from the external computer in a group unit or an individual unit based on the data to which the identification number is assigned.

[0009]

In order to make the following description easy to understand, it is assumed that, in the designation of the multifunction telephone by the external computer, the instruction of the operation accompanying the designation is the display of characters on the liquid crystal display unit (the present invention relates to this liquid crystal display). Is not limited to the display of characters, but is merely assumed for convenience of explanation).

[0010] The external computer is, for the electronic exchange, multiple
Only the identification number (group number designating a particular enhanced phone from the multifunction telephone base, or group number and Guru
And the character string to be displayed are sent to the electronic exchange. The electronic exchange to which the identification number and the character string have been given, the multi-function telephone corresponding to the given identification number can be group- based or
A character string to be selected in individual units and to be displayed on the selected multifunction telephone is transmitted.

[0011]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electric configuration of a system for telephone exchange and the like used in one embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, an electronic exchange 11 includes a main processor 111 for controlling liquid crystal display and processing for telephone exchange, which will be described in detail later, and I / F cards 112 and 113 bidirectionally connected to the main processor 111. it is constituted by a., the I / F card 112, a plurality of analog telephone 21 is a terminal apparatus, ..., 22
There are connected, a plurality of multi-function telephone 23 to the I / F card 113, ..., 24 are connected as a terminal device.

The main processor 111 includes an RS-
The external computer 12 is bidirectionally connected via a 232C communication line.
,..., 24 are sent to the main processor 111.

Since the multifunction telephones 23,..., 24 described above all have the same configuration, the configuration of the panel portions of the multifunction telephones 23,. FIG. 2 schematically shows only the multifunctional telephone 23.

The panel section 238 is provided with a plurality of key switches (only six key switches 231 to 236 are shown in FIG. 2 and other key switches are not shown), and a rectangular shape is provided. A liquid crystal display unit 237 made of a liquid crystal display is attached.

The multifunction telephone 23,...
With reference to FIG. 3, the assignment of extension numbers will be described with reference to FIG.

An extension number 1000 is assigned to the key switch 231 of the multi-function telephone 23, and an extension number 1100 is assigned to the key switch 232. The extension number 1000 is assigned to the key switch 241 of the multifunction telephone 24, and the extension number 1300 is assigned to the key switch 242. That is, the extension number 1000 is assigned to both of the two multifunction telephones 23 and 24. Each of the multi-function telephones 23 and 24 is a telephone corresponding to a plurality of extension numbers.

In the description given with reference to FIG.
The multifunction telephones 23 and 24 have the same I / F card 1
13 has been shown and described as being connected to the I / F 13, but in the following, the multi-function telephone 23 is connected to the I / F card inserted in the slot number 8,
The multifunction telephone 24 has the I-phone inserted in the slot number 5
The description will be made assuming that it is connected to the / F card.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration data stored in the electronic exchange 11.

The configuration data stored in the main processor 111 and describing the multi-function telephones 23,..., 24 is stored in all of the connected multi-function telephones 2.
For each of 3,..., 24, the group number (41
) And an intra-group number (indicated by 42), a slot number (43) indicating the insertion position of the connected I / F card, and a position in the I / F card. It is composed of data indicating each numerical value of the card internal position (44) and the extension number (45) assigned to the key switch.

The specific numerical values of these data values are, as shown at 31 in FIG. 4, for the multi-function telephone 23, each of the group number and the intra-group number is numerical value 1, the slot number is numerical value 8, and the position in the card. Is 5,
The assigned extensions are 1000 and 11
00. Further, as shown in FIG. 32, the group number of the multi-function telephone 24 is 1,
The group number is 2, the slot number is 5, the card position is 2, and the extension numbers are 1000 and 1300. That is, the multi-function telephones 23 and 24 are
Group (group number 1), and within that group
The order is as follows.
1) The multi-function telephone 24 is numbered 2 (group number 2)
Has become. Hereinafter, a data group corresponding to each of the other multifunctional telephones is described.

As described above, the identification number is a logical value which does not depend on the hardware, unlike the slot number or the value of the position in the card which is a value depending on the hardware of the electronic exchange 11. I have.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration data of the multifunctional telephone stored in the electronic exchange 11.

The external computer 12 stores the multi-function telephones 23,..., 2 as data for use in specifying the multi-function telephones 23,.
4 and the physical position data 51 (slot number 511 and card position 51
2), data 52 indicating attributes of each of the multi-function telephones 23,..., 24 (data 5 indicating the number of key switches)
21 and data 522) indicating whether or not the liquid crystal display is provided.
It has data 53 indicating an extension number corresponding to each key switch, and identification numbers 54 (group number 541 and group number 542) indicating each of the multi-function telephones 23,..., 24 as data. .., 24 have the same data except for the physical position data 51.

Out of these data in the electronic exchange 11, the external computer 12 has the following data. That is, the telephone attribute data 52, the data 53 indicating the extension number corresponding to each of the key switches, the identification number 5
4. These data are stored in, for example, the multifunction telephone 23.
, Yes, 1000, 1100, ..., 1, 1
(Indicated by 55). These values are
In the electronic exchange 11, the value is the same as the value corresponding to each of the configuration data described corresponding to the multifunction telephone 23 (except for the telephone attribute data 52).

The operation of the system having the above configuration will be described below.

When a character string is to be displayed on the multi-function telephone having the group number of the identification number of 1, the external computer 12
Is sent from the electronic exchange 11 to the electronic exchange 11.

This instruction includes an instruction type 61, an identification number 6
2 and a display content 63, and the instruction type 61 indicates "DISPLA" indicating that the display is a liquid crystal display.
Y]. The identification number 62 for specifying the multi-function telephone is “entire group 1” including only the group number for specifying the group. Further, the character string indicating the display content 63 is ““ Planning meeting from 13:00 on March 3 ”” (““ and “” are data for delimiter indicating the start and end of the character string. Is).

The electronic exchange 11 given this instruction
All of the logical multi-function telephones in which the group number of the configuration data stored therein is 1 (multi-function telephones described as 31 in FIG. 4 and 3
2 is selected first, and the physical multi-function telephone (slot number 8, in the card) whose connection is indicated by the slot number and the position in the card of the selected logical multi-function telephone A multi-function telephone (multi-function telephone 23 in FIG. 1) whose connection is indicated by position 5 and a multi-function telephone (multi-function telephone 24 in FIG. 1) whose connection is indicated by slot number 5 and position 2 in the card. Select as target phone.

Then, the rear electronic exchange 11 controls the selected multi-function telephones 23 and 24 to display the character string 63. As a result, the multifunctional telephone 2
The contents indicated by the character string 63 are displayed on the liquid crystal display units 237 of 324 and 324.

To display a character string on a specific multifunctional telephone, the external computer 12 sends an instruction shown in FIG.

Since the identification number in this instruction has a group number of 2 and an in-group number of 1, the electronic exchange 11 has a logical configuration in which the group number of the configuration data is 2 and the number in the group is 1. A multifunctional telephone is selected, and control is performed to display a character string 64 on a physical multifunctional telephone whose connection is indicated by the slot number and card position corresponding to the multifunctional telephone. As a result, the content indicated by the character string 64 is displayed on the liquid crystal display of the selected multifunction telephone.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the configuration of the identification number is made up of two types of numbers, the group number and the intra-group number. Both specification and individual specification can be performed.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and the types of commands have been described only for commands displayed on the liquid crystal display unit.
For example, the present invention can be similarly applied to a command or the like for performing voice display using a speaker built in the multifunction telephones 23,..., 24.

In the instruction from the external computer 12 to the electronic exchange 11, the multi-function telephones 23,..., 24 can be designated by one group number, or one group number and one group number. Although the above description has been made, other designation methods such as designation using a plurality of group numbers or designation using a plurality of combinations of a group number and an in-group number can be used.

The multi-function telephones 23,..., 24 can be applied to both analog multi-function telephones and digital multi-function telephones. The present invention can be similarly applied to a system to be used as a personal computer.

[0038]

External specifying the multifunction telephone via an electronic switch according to the present invention, the glue identifies the electronic switching equipment, the enhanced phone to the data indicating the multifunction telephone
An identification number consisting of a group number and a group number is assigned, and only the group number is sent from the external computer to the electronic exchange .
When an identification number consisting of an identification number or a group number and a group number is transmitted, the electronic exchange selects a group-based or individual-unit multifunction telephone corresponding to the transmitted identification number. , As an external computer,
Since it is only necessary to use the identification number when specifying the multi-function telephone, it is possible to specify the multi-function telephone without being affected by the difference in the hardware configuration of the electronic exchange. Also, the structure of the identification number is
And a group number.
Therefore, when specifying a multifunction phone,
Specify both the specified and individual specifications with this identification number only.
I can.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a system for telephone exchange and the like used in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an outline of a configuration of a panel unit of the multifunctional telephone.

FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory diagram for explaining extension number assignment of a multifunction telephone.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing configuration data stored in an electronic exchange.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing configuration data of a multifunction telephone stored in an electronic exchange.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing instructions sent from an external computer.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing instructions sent from an external computer.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 electronic exchange 12 external computer 23,..., 24 multifunctional telephone

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A plurality of groups classified into a plurality of groups;
When the function telephone is connected to the electronic exchange,
A method for designating a plurality of multi-function telephones using an external computer connected to the electronic exchange, comprising: a group for identifying the multi-function telephone in data indicating the multi-function telephone in the electronic exchange. Numbers and guru
Assigned an identification number consisting of-loop in number, the group number only identification number to the electronic exchange from the external computer
Multi-function telephone corresponding to the identification number transmitted from the external computer, based on the data to which the identification number is assigned or the group number and the intra-group number. Externally specifying a multi-function telephone via the electronic exchange , wherein the electronic exchange is selected in a group unit or an individual unit .