Facsimile system

• US 4,710,951 A
• Filed: 06/24/1985
• Issued: 12/01/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Itezono, Toshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/748,044
• Time in Patent Office: 890 Days
• Field of Search: 179/2 D P, 358/257, 358/256, 379/100
• US Class Current: 379/100.14
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/44 Additional connecting arrangements for providing access to frequently-wanted subscribers, e.g. abbreviated dialling at the subscriber's set H04M1/27; automatic redialling H04M3/424
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32037 Automation of particular transmitter jobs, e.g. multi-address calling, auto-dialing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32058 Abbreviated dialing, e.g. one-touch dialing

Abstract

A facsimile system includes a memory for storing a plurality of full dialing numbers at predetermined addresses of a plurality of abbreviated dialing numbers, a delivery unit for delivering to a telephone circuit one of the full dialing numbers which is read out of the memory in response to the designation of an address corresponding to one of the abbreviated dialing numbers, an input unit for issuing transmission command information and address information for the abbreviated dialing number, a first control unit for controlling the facsimile communication operation so as to detect the end of a facsimile reception, and a second control unit for controlling the readout, from the memory, of the full dialing number specified by the address information of the abbreviated dialing number from the input unit and for also controlling the delivery of the full dialing number from the delivery unit. When the address information for the abbreviated dialing number and the transmission command information are received during a facsimile reception, the second control unit controls the deliver unit to delivery the full dialing number corresponding to the abbreviated dialing number in response to a signal indicative of the end of the facsimile reception and issued from the first control unit.

Claims

1. A facsimile system comprising:

(a) a network control unit for controlling an exchange network;

(b) an input means for inputting transmission command information, dialing number and address information for an abbreviated dialing number;

(c) a memory means for storing a plurality of full dialing numbers at predetermined addresses which each correspond to a plurality of abbreviated dialing numbers;

(d) a buffer memory for temporarily storing a telephone number to be transmitted, said telephone number being read out from said memory means upon a designation of an address corresponding to a specified abbreviated dialing number;

(e) a delivery means for delivering a dialing number stored in said buffer memory to a telephone circuit via said network control unit;

(f) a modem for modulating data suitable for transmission over a telephone circuit and for demodulating data received from said telephone circuit;

(g) a means for reading original sheets;

(h) a means for printing the received data;

(i) a first control means for controlling a facsimile communication operation of said facsimile system and a reading operation of said reading means and a printing operation of said printing means, and for detecting an end of a facsimile reception and for outputting an end-detection signal thereafter; and

(j) a second control means for controlling said memory means and buffer memory, and for controlling said delivery means so as to deliver a dialing number stored in said buffer memory to said telephone circuit immediately during an idle state of the system, or after receiving said end-detection signal from said first control means after a facsimile reception;

wherein when address information for said abbreviated dialing number and said transmission command information are received during a facsimile reception, said second control means controls said delivery means so as to deliver the full dialing number stored in said buffer memory to said telephone circuit in response to said end-detection signal from said first control means.