JPH0398380A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow the operator to recognize an accurate charge for each transmission destination with simple maintenance and easy constitution by providing a communication control section, a main control section and a recording section. CONSTITUTION:A communication control section 1 recognizes charge notice information being one of information elements in a 'release message' and outputs the charge notice information 4 to a main control section 2. Upon the receipt of the charge notice information 4 from the communication control section 1, the main control section 2 accumulates the communication charge for each transmission destination and adds the charge notice information 4 to the accumulated charge and stores the result of sum into a charge management table. The main control section 2 applies formatting to the accumulated charge information accumulated for each transmission destination so as to be printed out by a readout recording section 3 from the charge management table and prints out the result to the recording section 3 as the accumulated charge information 5. upon the receipt of the accumulated charge information 5, the recording section 3 prints out the accumulated charge information on the facsimile recording paper. Thus, the accurate charge for each transmission destination required for the facsimile communication is recognized by the operator with simple and ease of maintenance constitution.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile device that connects to an ISDN network, and particularly relates to a facsimile device that records communication charges.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional facsimile machines did not depend on the function of recording communication charges from the ISDN network. However, with some facsimile machines, the station number of the location where it is installed is registered as the initial parameter of the device, and the charge for each communication time corresponding to the destination station number is registered in a table, so that the exchange rate entered at the time of sending can be registered. Communication charges were calculated from the destination phone number and communication time, and the results were displayed or recorded.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In facsimile machines that do not have the communication charge display and recording functions described above, it is not possible to grasp the charge required for facsimile transmission.

On the other hand, in a facsimile machine that stores charges for each communication time corresponding to the communication destination number in a table,
Not only did the amount of tables become enormous, but there were also problems with maintenance due to changes in communication charges.

[Means to solve the problem]

The facsimile device of the present invention is a facsimile device connected to an IS'DN network that is equipped with a charge notification service as an additional service.
a communication control unit that recognizes a value of charge notification information that is an information element in a release message received from an SDN network; a main control unit that accumulates the value of the charge notification information for each transmission destination; and a main control unit that records the accumulated result. It has a recording section.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

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

This embodiment includes a communication control unit 1 that recognizes the value of charge notification information 4, which is an information element contained in a release message received from the ISDN network after sending a facsimile message, and a communication control unit 1 that recognizes the value of charge notification information 4 for each transmission destination. A main control unit 2 that records the cumulative results 5, a recording unit 3 that records the cumulative results 5, and a charge management table 6.
It is composed of: FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram of a communication procedure for explaining the operation of this embodiment. As shown in Figure 2, when a facsimile connected to the ISDN network sends a message, at the end of the communication, a charge notification shown in the format shown in Figure 3 is sent in the release message j received from the ISDN network. Information is added.The fee notification information is added as the last information element of the release message.

Next, the operation will be explained.

゛The communication control unit 1 uses one of the information elements in the “release message”
It recognizes certain fee notification information and outputs the fee notification information 4 to the main control section 2. When the main control section 2 receives charge notification information 4 from the communication control section 1, it accumulates communication charges for each transmission destination. To accumulate communication charges for each transmission destination, for example, the main control unit 2 has a charge management table shown in FIG. and stores the addition result in the charge management table. The main control section 2 reads out the total charge information accumulated for each transmission destination from the charge management table, formats it so that it can be printed by the recording section 3, and outputs it to the recording section 3 as total charge information 5. When the recording unit 3 receives the cumulative fee information 5, it prints the cumulative fee information on facsimile recording paper.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, in a facsimile device connected to an ISDN network that is equipped with a fee notification service as an additional service, the present invention provides a message that is added to a "release message" received from the ISDN network at the end of facsimile message transmission. By cumulatively managing the value of charge notification, which is an information element, for each sending destination, and further printing the cumulative charges for each sending destination in the recording section, facsimile communication is simpler and easier to maintain than conventional methods. It is possible to provide a function that allows the operator to recognize the exact fee required for each transmission destination.

This is a diagram.

1... Communication control unit, 2... Main control unit, 3... Facsimile recording unit, 4... Charge notification information, 5... Cumulative charge information.

Claims (1)

[Claims] I that is equipped with a charge notification service as an additional service.
A facsimile device connected to an SDN network includes a communication control unit that recognizes the value of charge notification information that is an information element in a release message received from the ISDN network after sending a facsimile message, and a communication control unit that recognizes the value of charge notification information for each transmission destination. A facsimile apparatus, comprising: a main control section for accumulating the total; and a recording section for recording the accumulated result.