JP2962065B2 - Facsimile mail device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile mail apparatus, and more particularly, to a facsimile mail apparatus connected to a G4 line.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional facsimile mail apparatus is shown in FIG.
As shown in (1), the communication control unit 20 performs a G4 facsimile communication control procedure in the CCITT recommendation and receives a facsimile message. At this time, the analysis of the non-standard procedure is performed by the non-standard analysis unit 60, the designation of the mail function is decoded, and the contents are passed to the device control unit 10. The device control unit 10 executes mail functions such as broadcast transmission, bulletin board, and relay by using the specified mail function.

[0003]

In the conventional facsimile mail apparatus, when a remote G4 facsimile apparatus specifies a mail apparatus, the mail apparatus is specified by a non-standard procedure that can be used only between its own apparatuses. Since there is only a designation, there is a problem that a general G4 facsimile machine cannot be used for a mail function.

[0004]

According to the present invention, there is provided a facsimile apparatus comprising: a plurality of communication control units for transmitting and receiving facsimile messages in accordance with a G4 communication control procedure conforming to the CCITT recommendation; A separating unit that analyzes a subscriber number area in the calling terminal identifier and separates the subscriber number into identification information other than the subscriber number, and an analyzing unit that associates the separated identification information with a mail function. And performs a mail function corresponding to the analysis result of the analysis unit.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

[0006] The device control unit 10 controls the operation of the entire mail device. The communication control units 21, 22, and 23 transmit and receive facsimile telegrams to and from the other party's facsimile apparatus according to the G4 communication procedure according to the CCITT recommendation. Separation unit 3
0 analyzes the subscriber number area in the calling terminal identifier in the CSS command which is one of the received procedure signals from the partner facsimile apparatus, and separates the subscriber number into the subscriber number and identification information other than the subscriber number. . The analysis unit 40 analyzes the separated identification information and designates a mail function corresponding to the analysis information. The memory unit 50 stores a facsimile message and its management information.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.
The communication control unit 21 performs a G4 receiving procedure for receiving a facsimile message from the partner facsimile machine. In this procedure, the content of the calling terminal identifier in the CSS command sent from the other party facsimile machine is passed to the separating unit 30. C
The calling terminal identifier in the SS command is described in CCITT Recommendation F.
P defined by 200 and consisting of 24 characters or less
art1, 1 character "-", 12 characters
Part 2 consisting of
3 keys of Part3 to be formed and one character "="
It is composed of characters. Separating section 30 reads the area of Part2 which is the subscriber number area in the calling terminal identifier, and forms in advance a format (for example, subscriber number and identification information) defined with the other party's G4 facsimile machine. Is separated by a space character, etc.) to separate the subscriber number from the identification information. The subscriber number area is
According to the CCITT recommendation, it is defined as 12 characters or less.

In normal G4 communication, since this information is used only for display on the receiving side, identification information can be added. Further, even if the other party is a general G4 facsimile machine, the operation for setting this area can be easily performed. The separation unit 30 sends the separated identification information to the analysis unit 40, and returns the subscriber number to the communication control unit 21 again. The analysis unit 40 collates the content of the mail instruction from the content of the identification information, and passes the content to the device control unit 10.

On the other hand, the communication control section 21 passes the facsimile message received from the partner facsimile apparatus to the apparatus control section 10 after the reception procedure is completed. The device control unit 10 stores the received facsimile message in the memory unit 50. The device control unit 10 further executes the mail function specified by the mail instruction content received from the analysis unit 40.

Here, a case will be described as an example where a mail function of broadcast distribution is instructed. The broadcast distribution is a mail function for transmitting the same facsimile message to a plurality of destinations. When performing this, the device control unit 10 first reads out the facsimile message stored first from the memory unit 50. Communication control unit 2
1 and communication control units 22 and 23 having equivalent functions
To send facsimile messages to different destinations. At this time, which communication control unit is used is determined by the device control unit 10.
Do. In addition, transmission can be sequentially performed to a plurality of destinations using one communication control unit.

[0011]

As described above, according to the present invention, in a mail apparatus having a plurality of communication control units, means for separating identification information into one or a plurality of communication control units and means for analyzing the contents of the identification information are provided. With this, a general G4 facsimile machine capable of setting a subscriber number in the CSS can easily instruct an e-mail function.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a conventional facsimile mail device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Device control part 20, 21, 22, 23 Communication control part 30 Separation part 40 Analysis part 50 Memory part 60 Non-standard procedure analysis part

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A plurality of communication control units for transmitting and receiving facsimile messages in accordance with a G4 communication control procedure conforming to CCITT recommendation, and a subscriber number area in a calling terminal identifier in a CSS command received in the communication control procedure And a separating unit that separates the subscriber information into identification information other than the subscriber number, and an analyzing unit that associates the separated identification information with a mail function. A facsimile mail device that performs a corresponding mail function.