JP2003264661A - Data communication device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data communication device in which a document received by a facsimile can be operated from a portable terminal equipment such as a mobile terminal device. <P>SOLUTION: When there is facsimile reception, a system control part 1117 notifies a portable terminal equipment 12 of the facsimile reception and as a response to the notice, the operating command of a document stored in a storage device is received from the portable terminal equipment to carry out the relevant operating command. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data communication apparatus capable of operating a document received by facsimile from a mobile terminal device such as a mobile terminal device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, network facsimile machines have become popular. The network facsimile device is capable of performing facsimile communication with another facsimile device using a public line, and is also connectable to other networks such as LAN and WAN.

In this type of network facsimile apparatus, when a facsimile document is received, the ITU-T subaddress (SUB / SID signal) sent from the sender is identified, and an incoming notification is sent to the mail addresses associated with each. be able to. As a result, a computer user and a mobile terminal user who are away from the network facsimile apparatus can know the arrival of a facsimile addressed to themselves (see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-295403).

By the above-mentioned notification of incoming call, the user who knows that the facsimile documents addressed to himself / herself are stored in the network facsimile apparatus can go to the apparatus and manually perform an operation such as printing. Also,
The document received by the network facsimile apparatus can be received by its own computer or a transfer destination computer designated in advance.

[0005]

However, normally, the place where the print output of the received facsimile document can be received is limited to the network computer that has received the facsimile document, the transfer destination computer, etc. The print output cannot be received from a computer, a facsimile machine, or an unspecified facsimile machine installed in a convenience store or the like.

When a facsimile document arrives, some users may want to refer to the information of the sender to perform operations such as printing, transferring, and deleting, and a facsimile document received in the past. There is also a request to perform operations such as printing, transferring, and deleting with reference to the list of.

According to the present invention, a document stored in a data communication device such as a network FAX can be managed from a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone or a PDA at any time by performing document management such as displaying a list of documents, printing, transferring, and deleting. It is an object of the present invention to provide a data communication device that can be performed.

[0008]

A data communication apparatus of the present invention is a data communication apparatus having a storage device for accumulating a document received by facsimile, and when a facsimile is received, the portable terminal device receives the facsimile. A facsimile reception notifying means for making a notification of the above, and an operation command executing means for executing an operation command for a document stored in the storage device received from the portable terminal device as a response to the notification. To do.

In the data communication apparatus of the present invention, the operation command includes a transmission of the document received by the facsimile or a list of documents stored in the storage device to the portable terminal device, the document received by the facsimile or the storage. Printing of documents stored in a device, transfer of documents received by the facsimile or documents stored in the storage device to another data communication device, documents received by the facsimile or documents stored in the storage device , Or a combination of two or more of them.

From a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone or PDA, to a document stored in a data communication device such as a network FAX, a list of documents can be displayed, printed, and transferred at any time.
Document management such as deletion can be performed.

Further, the data communication apparatus of the present invention has a function of providing a web page to the portable terminal device, and the web page can have a function of receiving the operation command from the portable terminal device. As a result, it is possible to easily and interactively manage documents stored in the data communication device from various types of mobile terminals and the like.
This web page can be customized according to the function of the mobile terminal device, and restrictions or privileges can be given to specific document management for each mobile phone.

In the data communication apparatus of the present invention, the operation command is directly received from the portable terminal device,
It is characterized by further comprising operation command execution permission means for permitting execution of the operation command based on the unique information of the mobile terminal device. This can save the user the trouble of inputting the user name and password each time the operation is performed.

In the data communication apparatus of the present invention, the facsimile reception notifying means can include the URL of the web page in the notification when the notification of the facsimile reception is given to the portable terminal device. This allows
The user of the mobile terminal or the like not only knows that the facsimile document has arrived, but also immediately accesses the URL to issue an instruction to print, transfer, or delete the document.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a data communication device of the present invention (here, a network FA
It is a block diagram of X). In FIG. 1, a network FAX 11 includes a scanner 1101 and a plotter 110.
2, encoding / decoding unit 1103, network control device 1104, modem 1105, operation display unit 1106, system control unit 1
107, telephone 1108, network connection device 110
9, received document storage device 1110, and document management unit 11
11 is provided. Each of these parts is the system bus 111.
They are connected via 2 and can exchange various control signals and data with each other.

The scanner 1101 can read a document image and store image information in the received document storage device 1110. The plotter 1102 records an image on recording paper, and is a printer or a plotter. The encoding / decoding unit 1103 can perform data compression by encoding the image information to be transmitted by a known encoding method such as the MH method, while decoding the received image information to reproduce the original image information. it can.

The network control device 1104 is connected to the telephone line 100 and performs line control for sending and receiving a facsimile document. The modem 1105 modulates and demodulates image information and transmits it, and also transmits various procedure signals for transmission control. The operation display unit 1106 is a user interface including operation keys and a display, and can display an operation state of the device and an input key by an operator.

The system control unit 1107 is a microcomputer that controls the above-mentioned units, and includes a CPU, a programmed ROM, a system RAM, a work RAM and the like.
The network connection device 1109 connects to a LAN or the like. The received document storage device 1110 stores the received facsimile document. The documents accumulated in the storage device 1110 are not deleted without a user's instruction and the like and can be reused later if the storage device has sufficient free space. The document management unit 1111
When a facsimile document is received, an incoming notification is given and the received facsimile document is managed.

FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram composed of the network FAX 11 and the portable terminal device 12. The network FAX 11 can communicate with the facsimile apparatus 51 through the public line network 100. The network FAX 11 is also connected to the LAN 300,
The gateway 31 is connected to a dedicated line 500 for receiving an external connection.

The mobile terminal device 12 is connected to the mobile communication network 400 via the base station 41 and to the dedicated line 500 via the access center 42 on the mobile communication network 400. As a result, the mobile terminal device 12 becomes the base station 4
1, it can be connected to the network FAX 11 via the mobile communication network 400, the access center 42, the dedicated line 500, the gateway 31, and the LAN 300. In addition,
Although not shown, the dedicated line 500 in FIG. 2 can be replaced with the Internet 200.

The network FAX 11 can notify the mobile terminal device 12 that a facsimile has been received.
By accessing X11, it is possible to perform document management such as acquisition, printing, transfer, and deletion of a list of facsimile documents received by the network FAX 11.

The network FAX 11 has a web server function as one function of the document management section 1111.
The mobile terminal device 12 also has a web browsing function. By using a web browser, the network FAX 11 can interactively and easily operate the mobile terminal device 12
Can receive commands from. At this time, the web page displayed on the mobile terminal device 12 automatically generates a web browsing capability of the mobile terminal device 12, that is, a format suitable for the screen size, usable tags, form format, and the like.

FIG. 3 shows a web page display process in the network FAX 11. The web server is
The type of the connected terminal can be identified using information such as HTTP_USER_AGENT (information regarding the web browser in use) provided from the web browser (see S101).

When the terminal connected to the network FAX 11 is a mobile phone (S102), a web page including only the minimum necessary information for operating the document management function is generated and displayed (S103). When the terminal connected to the network FAX 11 is a PDA or the like which has a larger screen than the mobile phone and is multifunctional (S104), a web page is generated and displayed in consideration of readability and operability. Yes (S105). Network F
The terminal connected to the AX11 is a computer (hereinafter referred to as "P
If all of the general techniques used for web pages (such as “C”) can be used (S106), a web page that maximizes readability and operability is generated and displayed (S107). .

Further, the network FAX 11 has a function of transmitting an electronic mail as one of the functions of the document management unit 1111. When a facsimile document is received from another facsimile apparatus, the portable telephone of the notification destination set in advance. A facsimile reception is notified by sending an electronic mail to the terminal device 12.

At this time, if an ITU-T subaddress (SUB / SID signal, etc.) is sent from the transmitting side,
Considering this as the notification destination information, the incoming notification is given to the mobile terminal device 12 of the notification destination that has been associated with the sub-address in advance. The contents to be notified include the sender's telephone number of the facsimile document, sender information such as user name and date and time, the number of facsimile documents, and a hyperlink to a web page for operating the document is embedded. .

By following the link, it is possible to perform operations such as printing, transferring, and deleting on the received facsimile document from the portable terminal or the like as described above. In order to limit the mobile terminals and the like that can operate the network FAX 11, specific information such as the serial number set in the mobile terminal device 12 is registered in the document management unit 1111 in advance. Since the user authentication is automatically performed based on this information, the user does not need to perform the authentication work each time the user performs the document management operation.

FIG. 4 shows the network FAX shown in FIG.
11 is a flowchart showing an operation when an incoming call notification is sent to a mobile terminal or the like when a facsimile document is received in FIG.
When the notification destination information received when the facsimile document arrives is checked (S201), and when the corresponding notification destination mobile terminal or the like is registered (“YES” in S201), the incoming notification as shown in FIG. Notify the notification destination mobile terminal or the like (S2
02). If the corresponding notification destination mobile terminal or the like is not registered (“NO” in S201), nothing is done. The operation for the received document will be described later.

FIGS. 5 and 6 are flowcharts showing the operation of the embodiment of the network FAX 11 shown in FIG. 2 when the mobile terminal or the like is actively connected to manage the document. Moreover, in FIG.
The example of the screen which X11 displays on a mobile terminal etc. according to operation from a mobile terminal etc. is shown. When a connection request is sent from a certain mobile terminal or the like, authentication as to whether or not the user has appropriate authority is performed based on the unique information set in the mobile terminal or the like as described above (S301). . When the user has appropriate authority, the web page corresponding to the operation instruction included in the connection request is displayed on the mobile terminal or the like. If the user does not have the authority, an error message is displayed on the mobile terminal or the like (S302: see FIG. 7A).

The operation instruction included in the connection request is analyzed (S3
03) If there is no operation instruction such as list display or printing (S304), the web page which is the document management initial menu is displayed on the mobile terminal (S304).
305: see FIG. 7B). When the facsimile document list display is instructed (S306), a web page listing the documents stored in the network FAX 11 is displayed on the mobile terminal or the like (S307: FIG. 7).
(C)). On the side of the mobile terminal or the like, a document to be managed is selected from the document list, and then instructions for printing, transfer, deletion, etc. are transmitted to the network FAX 11.

When the display of the latest incoming document is instructed (S308), the network FA is displayed on the portable terminal or the like.
X11 displays the information of the document last received (S3
09: FIG. 7 (d). On the side of the mobile terminal or the like, the network FAX 1 sends an instruction to print, transfer, or delete the document.
Send to 1.

When the printing of the facsimile document is instructed (S310), the designated document is sent to the network FA.
Printing is performed at X11 (S311), and when printing is completed normally (S312), a print completion message is displayed on the mobile terminal (S313: FIG. 7E), and printing is completed for some reason. If not, an error message is displayed on the mobile terminal or the like (S314: FIG. 7).
(F)).

When the transfer of the facsimile document is instructed (S315), it is checked whether or not the transfer destination is already specified together with the instruction (S316), and if the transfer destination is not specified (S316-N). Displays a web page prompting the input of the transfer destination on the mobile terminal (S
318: FIG. 7 (g)).

On the side of the mobile terminal or the like, the transfer destination is input and transmitted to the network FAX 11. If the transfer destination has already been designated (S316: “YES”), the document selected as the transfer destination is transferred (S317). When the transfer is successful (S319: “YES”), a transfer completion message is displayed on the mobile terminal or the like (S320: FIG. 7).
(H)), if the transfer fails for some reason (S31)
9: “NO”), an error message is displayed on the mobile terminal or the like (S321: FIG. 7 (i)). When the deletion of the facsimile document is instructed (S322), the instructed document is deleted (S323). When the deletion is successful (S324: “YES”), a deletion completion message is displayed on the mobile terminal or the like (S325: FIG. 7 (j)), and when the deletion fails for some reason (S324: “NO”) Causes an error message to be displayed on the mobile terminal, etc. (S
326: FIG. 7 (k)).

[0034]

According to the present invention, the mobile terminal device is usually a mobile phone equipped with a web browser, or P
It is DA. Therefore, it is preferable that the data communication device of the present invention is capable of automatically generating a web page according to the web browsing ability of these mobile terminal devices. In addition, it is necessary to authenticate whether the access to the web page from the mobile terminal device is made by an authorized user. At the time of this authentication, it is very troublesome for the user to require the user to input a user name and a password each time he / she accesses.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of an embodiment of a data communication device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram of a data communication device of the present invention including a network FAX and a mobile terminal device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation when an incoming notification is sent to a mobile terminal or the like when a facsimile document arrives.

4 is a diagram showing a flowchart (first half) showing a document management processing operation by the network FAX shown in FIG.

5 is a view showing a flowchart (second half) showing the document management processing operation by the network FAX shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is an example of a display screen sent from a network FAX to a mobile terminal or the like, (a) is an example of a display screen when user authentication is not permitted, and (b) is a document management initial menu display. A screen example, (c) a display screen example when displaying a list of documents, (d) a display screen example when displaying the latest incoming document, (e) a display screen example when printing is completed, (F) is a display screen example when printing fails,
(G) is an example of a display screen when setting a transfer destination (h) is an example of a display screen when the transfer is completed, (i) is an example of a display screen when the transfer is unsuccessful, and (j) is a deletion completed An example of the display screen when the deletion is performed, and (k) is an example of the display screen when the deletion fails.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 Network FAX 12 Mobile terminal equipment 31 gateway 41 base stations 51 Facsimile machine 100 public network 300 LAN 400 mobile communication network 500 leased line 1101 scanner 1102 Plotter 1103 Encoding / decoding unit 1104 Network control device 1105 modem 1106 Operation display section 1107 System control unit 1108 telephone 1109 Network connection device 1110 Received document storage device 1111 and document management unit 1112 system bus

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A data communication apparatus having a storage device for accumulating a document received by facsimile, and a facsimile reception notifying means for notifying a mobile terminal device of the facsimile reception when the facsimile reception is received, and the notification. In response to the operation command execution means for executing an operation command for the document received from the portable terminal device and stored in the storage device, the data communication device. 2. The operation command is transmitted to the portable terminal device by a list of documents received by the facsimile or documents stored in the storage device, and stored by the documents received by the facsimile or the storage device. Either printing the document, transferring the document received by the facsimile or the document stored in the storage device to another data communication device, deleting the document received by the facsimile or the document stored in the storage device. One or two of these
The data communication device according to claim 1, wherein the data communication device is a combination of three or more. 3. A data communication apparatus having a function of providing a web page to a mobile terminal device, wherein the web page has a function of receiving the operation command from the mobile terminal device. The data communication device according to claim 1. 4. A data communication device for directly receiving the operation command from the mobile terminal device, comprising an operation command execution permission unit for permitting execution of the operation command based on unique information of the mobile terminal device. The data communication device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein 5. The data communication device according to claim 1, further comprising a function of generating the web page according to a function of the mobile terminal device. 6. The facsimile reception notification means, when the notification of the facsimile reception is given to the mobile terminal device, includes the URL of the web page in the notification. The data communication device described in 1. 7. The data communication device according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal device is a mobile phone.