Apparatus for monitoring and displaying activity of an information processing system
First Claim
1. In an information processing system having plural recorders for recording information jobs, plural originating stations for supplying information jobs to be recorded, means for selectively connecting originating stations to recorders, recovery stations for recovering information jobs from at least some of said recorders, means for connecting said recovery stations to said some recorders, and monitoring means for monitoring information recording and recovery activity of respective recorders, apparatus comprising:
- delay means for determining the difference between lengths of information jobs recorded on a recorder and lengths of information jobs recovered from that recorder, and for calculating therefrom the expected recovery delay in recovering an information job to be recorded on said recorder and for producing signals indicating the recovery delay;
job counting means for producing count signals representing the difference between the number of information jobs that have been recorded on a recorder and the number of information jobs that have been recovered from that recorder to indicate the number of information jobs that are recorded on and are awaiting recovery from said recorder;
signal control means coupled to each of said recorders for receiving the produced signals and for providing signals representing the number of recorded information jobs awaiting recovery from, and the recovery delay of respective recorders; and
display means coupled to said signal control means and responsive to at least some of the provided signals for displaying alphanumeric characters representing recovery delay in the number of information jobs awaiting recovery from respective recorders.
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Abstract
Apparatus for monitoring and displaying the activity of an information processing system, such as a central dictation system, having plural recorders, plural originating stations for supplying information jobs to be recorded on the recorders, and recovery stations for recovering information jobs from those recorders. The activity which is monitored and displayed includes the availability of respective recorders to receive information from originating stations, the lengths of information jobs which have been recorded and now await recovery, the expected recovery delay in recovering a new information job to be recorded on a recorder, and the number of information jobs in each recorder that are awaiting recovery. The apparatus includes a processor which senses the aforementioned activity and controls a video display for displaying same.
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41 Claims
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1. In an information processing system having plural recorders for recording information jobs, plural originating stations for supplying information jobs to be recorded, means for selectively connecting originating stations to recorders, recovery stations for recovering information jobs from at least some of said recorders, means for connecting said recovery stations to said some recorders, and monitoring means for monitoring information recording and recovery activity of respective recorders, apparatus comprising:
- delay means for determining the difference between lengths of information jobs recorded on a recorder and lengths of information jobs recovered from that recorder, and for calculating therefrom the expected recovery delay in recovering an information job to be recorded on said recorder and for producing signals indicating the recovery delay;
job counting means for producing count signals representing the difference between the number of information jobs that have been recorded on a recorder and the number of information jobs that have been recovered from that recorder to indicate the number of information jobs that are recorded on and are awaiting recovery from said recorder;
signal control means coupled to each of said recorders for receiving the produced signals and for providing signals representing the number of recorded information jobs awaiting recovery from, and the recovery delay of respective recorders; and
display means coupled to said signal control means and responsive to at least some of the provided signals for displaying alphanumeric characters representing recovery delay in the number of information jobs awaiting recovery from respective recorders. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
- delay means for determining the difference between lengths of information jobs recorded on a recorder and lengths of information jobs recovered from that recorder, and for calculating therefrom the expected recovery delay in recovering an information job to be recorded on said recorder and for producing signals indicating the recovery delay;
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13. Apparatus for displaying status of individual recorders in a central dictation system having a plurality of dictate stations to seize said recorders for recording messages on record media therein, a plurality of transcribe stations, each having an associated transcribe rate, for transcribing recorded messages from said record media, means for connecting a dictate station to a recorder and for connecting a transcribe station to a recorder, and signal control means coupled to each of said recorders and responsive to the connections thereto of respective dictate and transcribe stations for recording and transcribing messages to provide signals representing respective identifying numbers of messages that are on said record media in position to be transcribed, and signals representing amounts of record media of respective recorders consumed by said messages, said apparatus comprising display means for displaying alphanumeric characters representing the status of said respective recorders;
- and processor means responsive to the signals provided by said signal control means to control said dispaly means, said processor means including message number means for detecting the identifying numbers of the message positioned to be transcribed from said record media and for providing said display means with information to display said identifying message numbers for respective recorders, and delay determining means responsive to the signals representing the amount of record media of respective recorders consumed by messages and the transcribe rates associated with the transcribe stations connected to said respective recorders to determine an expected delay in transcribing newly recorded messages and for providing said dispaly means with information to display the expected delay of said respective recorders.
- View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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22. Apparatus for displaying status of individual recorders in a central dictation system having a plurality of dictate stations to seize said recorders for recording messages on record media therein, a plurality of transcribe stations, each having an associated transcribe rate, for transcribing recorded messages from said record media, means for connecting a dictate station to a recorder and for connecting a transcribe station to a recorder, at least some of the recorders comprising endless loop recorders, each having a dictate port connectable to a dictate station for receiving messages for recording and a transcribe port connectable to a transcribe station for playing back messages for transcription and signal control means coupled to each of said recorders and responsive to the connections thereto of respective dictate and transcribe stations for recording and transcribing messages to provide signals representing respective identifying numbers of messages that are on said record media in position to be transcribed, and signals representing amounts of record media of respective recorders consumed by said messages, said apparatus comprising display means for displaying alphanumeric characters representing the status of said respective recorders;
- and processor means responsive to the signals provided by said signal control means to control said display means, said processor means including message number means for detecting the identifying numbers of the messages positioned to be transcribed from said record media and for providing said display means with information to display said identifying message numbers for respective recorders, and delay determining means responsive to the signals representing the amount of record media of respective recorders consumed by messages and the transcribe rates associated with the transcribe stations connected to said respective recorders to determine an expected delay in transcribing newly recorded messages and for providing said display means with information to display the expected delay of said respective recorders; and
wherein the dictate port of at least one of said endless loop recorders is connectable to a transcribe station for transcribing messages thereat for "priority transcription". - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
- and processor means responsive to the signals provided by said signal control means to control said display means, said processor means including message number means for detecting the identifying numbers of the messages positioned to be transcribed from said record media and for providing said display means with information to display said identifying message numbers for respective recorders, and delay determining means responsive to the signals representing the amount of record media of respective recorders consumed by messages and the transcribe rates associated with the transcribe stations connected to said respective recorders to determine an expected delay in transcribing newly recorded messages and for providing said display means with information to display the expected delay of said respective recorders; and
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39. In a central recording system having plural recorders for recording messages on record media therein, plural dictate stations for supplying messages to be recorded, means for connecting at least some of said dictate stations to said recorders, and monitoring means for monitoring the message recording activity of respective recorders, apparatus comprising indicating means for indicating to an operator the connection of an inactive dictate station to a recorder;
- operator initiated manually operable means for generating a disconnect command and for generating one of plural recorder identifying signals representing the particular recorder to which said inactive dictate station is connected; and
means responsive to said disconnect command and to said recorder identifying signal for disconnecting the dictate station then connected to the identified recorder. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41)
- operator initiated manually operable means for generating a disconnect command and for generating one of plural recorder identifying signals representing the particular recorder to which said inactive dictate station is connected; and
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