Private branch exchange capable of analyzing information received from ISDN

• US 5,481,605 A
• Filed: 07/02/1993
• Issued: 01/02/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Sakurai, Shigeki, Takashima, Shoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hofsass, Jeffery A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hong, Harry S.
• Application Number:
  US08/085,147
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• Field of Search: 358/433, 358/434, 358/442, 358/468, 370/110.1, 370/60, 370/60.1, 379/93, 379/94, 379/95, 379/100, 379/211, 379/212, 379/233, 379/244, 379/234, 379/242, 379/243
• US Class Current: 379/243
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0428 Integrated services digital network, i.e. systems for transmission of different types of digitised signals, e.g. speech, data, telecentral, television signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/627 Details

Abstract

A method of deciding whether an extension terminal is called or not is provided. The kind of communication is recognized on the basis of a set-up message received from the ISDN. Whether the extension terminal is called or not is decided on the basis of the result of comparison between the kind of the extension terminal and the kind of the communication recognized. There is also provided a private branch exchange comprising: a detector to detect a reception from an analog external line; a digital interface to connect a terminal corresponding to a procedure for a digital line; and a judging circuit to judge whether the terminal corresponds to a procedure for an analog line or not, wherein when the judging circuit decides that the terminal corresponds to the procedure for the analog line when the reception is detected by the detector, the digital interface transmits the set-up message to the terminal.

Claims

1. A private branch exchange comprising:

detecting means for detecting a call reception from an analog external line;

a digital interface for connecting a digital terminal capable of performing a digital procedure for an ISDN; and

judging means for judging whether the digital terminal connected to said digital interface is capable of performing an analog procedure for an analog line,

wherein if said judging means decides that the digital terminal is capable of performing the analog procedure for the analog line when the call reception is detected by said detecting means, said digital interface transmits a set-up message corresponding to the digital procedure for the ISDN to the digital terminal.

2. An exchange according to claim 1, wherein when said judging means determines that the terminal does not correspond to the analog procedure for the analog line, said digital interface does not transmit the set-up message to the digital terminal.

3. An exchange according to claim 1, wherein the analog procedure for the analog line includes a G3 facsimile procedure.

4. An exchange According to claim 1, wherein the digital interface transmits the set-up message to a G3/G4 facsimile.

5. An exchange according to claim 1, wherein said judging means comprises memory means for storing the type of digital terminal and judges whether or not the digital terminal corresponds to the analog procedure on the basis of said memory means.

6. A private branch exchange comprising:

an ISDN-S point interface for connecting a G3/G4 facsimile;

detecting means for detecting a request for a G3 communication from the G3/G4 facsimile; and

calling means for calling an external analog line on the basis of the request for the G3 communication detected by said detecting means.

7. A private branch exchange comprising:

detecting means for detecting an incoming call from an external analog line;

an extension digital interface for connecting a digital terminal which is capable of performing a digital procedure for a digital line; and

judging means for judging whether the digital terminal connected to said extension digital interface is capable of performing an analog procedure for an analog line,

wherein said extension digital interface transmits incoming call information to the digital terminal corresponding to the digital procedure for the digital line on the basis of a judgment by said judging means.

8. An exchange according to claim 7, wherein, when said judging means determines that the digital terminal does not correspond to the analog procedure for the analog line, said extension digital interface does not transmit the incoming call information to the digital terminal.

9. An exchange according to claim 7, wherein the digital procedure for the digital line includes an ISDN procedure and the analog procedure for the analog line includes a G3 facsimile procedure.

10. An exchange according to claim 7, wherein said extension digital interface transmits the incoming call information to a G3/G4 facsimile.

11. An exchange according to claim 7, wherein said extension digital interface transmits the incoming call information to the digital terminal on the basis of the judgment by said Judging means in a case where the incoming call from an external analog line is detected by said detecting means.

12. An exchange according to claim 7, wherein said extension digital interface transmits the incoming call information to the digital terminal in a case where said judging means judges that the digital terminal corresponds to a communication corresponding to the analog procedure.

13. An exchange according to claim 12, wherein said extension digital interface transmits the incoming call information to the digital terminal in a case where said judging means judges the digital terminal corresponds to an audio communication.

14. An exchange according to claim 12, wherein said extension digital interface transmits the incoming call information to the digital terminal in a case where said judging means judges the digital terminal corresponds to a G3 communication.

15. An exchange according to claim 7, wherein said judging means comprises memory means for storing the type of the digital terminal and judges whether the digital terminal corresponds to the analog procedure on the basis of said memory means.

16. An exchange according to claim 7, wherein the digital line is an integrated service digital network.

17. An exchange according to claim 7, wherein said extension digital interface connects a G4 facsimile, and said judging means judges whether the G4 facsimile has a G3 facsimile communication function.

18. An incoming call process method for a communication system, comprising the steps of:

detecting an incoming call;

discriminating whether a terminal, which is connected to a digital interface, is capable of performing an analog procedure for an analog line; and

informing the extension of the incoming call using a digital procedure for a digital line, when the terminal is capable of performing the analog procedure.

19. A method according to claim 18, wherein the incoming call from an analog line is detected in said detecting step.

20. A method according to claim 18, wherein the incoming call from a digital line is detected in said detecting step.

21. A method according to claim 18, wherein the incoming call having a predetermined attribute is detected in said detecting step.

22. A method according to claim 18, wherein the analog procedure discriminated in said discriminating step is a G3 facsimile procedure.

23. A method according to claim 18, wherein it is discriminated in said discriminating step whether the terminal is a G3/G4 facsimile.

24. A method according to claim 18, wherein an ISDN interface is used for informing the terminal in said informing step.

25. A method according to claim 18, wherein said discriminating step is performed to each of a plurality of terminals.

26. An outgoing call process method for a communication system, comprising the steps of:

receiving a communication request from a terminal according to a digital procedure for a digital line;

discriminating whether the communication request is for a G3 facsimile communication; and

making an outgoing call via an external analog line when the communication request is for the G3 facsimile communication.

27. A method according to claim 26, wherein the communication request from a G3/G4 facsimile is received in said receiving step.

28. A method according to claim 26, wherein the communication request is received via an ISDN interface in said receiving step.

29. A method according to claim 26, wherein the external analog line is selected from the external analog line and an external digital line.

30. A private exchange apparatus comprising:

an analog external line interface for connecting an analog external line;

a digital extension interface for connecting a digital terminal which is capable of performing a digital procedure for a digital line and capable of performing an analog procedure for an analog line; and

control means for controlling said digital extension interface so as to send a calling signal to the digital terminal using the digital procedure when a call is received via the analog external line.

31. An apparatus according to claim 30, wherein said control means includes means for judging whether the digital terminal connected to said digital extension interface is capable of performing the analog procedure.

32. An apparatus according to claim 30, wherein the digital procedure includes a G4 facsimile procedure and the analog procedure includes a G3 facsimile procedure.

33. An apparatus according to claim 30, wherein the calling signal includes a SETUP message.

34. An incoming call processing method for a private exchange connecting an analog external line and a digital terminal, said method comprising the steps of:

detecting an incoming call from the analog external line; and

sending a calling signal from a digital extension interface to the digital terminal which is capable of performing a digital procedure for a digital line and capable of performing an analog procedure for an analog line.

35. A method according to claim 34, wherein whether the digital terminal connected to the digital extension interface is capable of performing the analog procedure is judged in said sending step.

36. A method according to claim 34, wherein the calling signal is sent to the digital terminal which is capable of performing the digital procedure including a G4 facsimile procedure and capable of performing the analog procedure including a G3 facsimile procedure.

37. A method according to claim 34, wherein the calling signal including a SETUP message is sent in said sending step.