Communication device and storage medium

• US 6,236,468 B1
• Filed: 10/07/1997
• Issued: 05/22/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Yasui, Kunihiro, Otsuka, Shuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehta, Bhavesh
• Assistant Examiner(s): DESIRE, GREGORY M
• Application Number:
  US08/946,307
• Time in Patent Office: 1,323 Days
• Field of Search: 382/115, 235/380, 235/280, 358/444, 358/403, 358/402, 358/400, 379/88.22, 379/88.25, 379/88.26, 379/88.27, 379/93.03, 379/100.08, 379/100.09
• US Class Current: 358/444
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/652 Means for playing back the recorded messages by remote control over a telephone line H04M1/658 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/658 Means for redirecting recorded messages to other extensions or equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4413 involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/444 to a particular document or image or part thereof

Abstract

A communication device provides security for information for a specific individual during information transfer. The communication device includes a transfer device that reads calling information stored in calling information storing device and calls communication terminals corresponding to the calling information if information, which is input and which is not addressed to a specific individual, is stored in a general information storing device. The transfer device transfers information stored in the general information storing device to the communication terminals corresponding to the calling information by operating general information output control device. The transfer device does not transfer information for a specific individual if the information input is for the specific individual and is stored in personal information storing device.

Claims

1. A communication device having a transfer function for transferring a received data from a remote communication device to another remote communication device, comprising:

information receiving means for receiving personal information and general information via a telecommunication line, the personal information being for a specific individual;

personal information storing means for storing the personal information received by the information receiving means;

general information storing means for storing the general information received by the information receiving means;

information reproducing means capable of reproducing the personal information stored in the personal information storing means under a predetermined condition and capable of reproducing the general information stored in the general information storing means;

reproduction request means for requesting that the information reproducing means reproduce the stored personal and general information;

calling information storing means for storing calling information for calling at least one destination terminal to transfer received information;

transfer means for automatically transferring general information to the at least one destination terminal after the information receiving means receives the general information and the general information is stored in the general information storing means, and not transferring personal information to the at least one destination terminal even after the information receiving means receives the personal information and the personal information is stored in the personal information storing means.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the personal information storing means comprises a plurality of personal information storage devices.

3. The communication device according to claim 2, further comprising specification means for specifying one of the plurality of personal information storing devices that personal information is input to and output from.

4. The communication device according to claim 3, wherein the predetermined condition includes that the specification means specifies one of the plurality of personal information storing devices.

5. The communication device according to claim 4, further comprising:

password storing means for previously storing a password for each personal information storing device;

password input means, provided to the communication device, for inputting a password; and

judging means for judging whether the password input from the password input means corresponds to the stored password in the password storing means, wherein the predetermined condition includes when there is a correspondence judgment by the judging means between the password input from the password input means and a previously stored password corresponding to the specified personal information storing device by the specification means.

6. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising transfer setting means for setting whether an automatic transfer function in ON or OFF, wherein said transfer means automatically transfers only general information to the least one destination terminal when the transfer setting means sets the automatic transfer function to ON.

7. The communication device according to claim 6, further comprising automatic message recording mode setting means for setting whether an automatic message recording mode in ON or OFF, wherein said transfer means automatically transfers only general information to the at least one destination terminal when the automatic transfer is ON and the automatic message recording mode is ON.

8. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising paging means for providing an indication to the at least one communication terminal that a personal information exists in the personal information storing means when the information receiving means receives the personal information.

9. The communication device according to claim 8, further comprising paging setting means for setting whether an automatic paging function is ON or OFF, wherein said paging means automatically provides the indication to the at least one communication terminal when the automatic paging function is ON.

10. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

password storing means for previously storing a password for the personal information storing means;

password receiving means for receiving a password from another communication device via the telecommunication line;

first judging means for judging whether the password received from another communication device corresponds to the stored password in the password storing means; and

permitting means for permitting the transmission of the personal information stored in the personal information storing means to said another communication device when the first judging means judges that the password received from another communication device corresponds to the stored password in the password storing means.

11. The communication device according to claim 10, further comprising:

password input means, provided to the communication device, for inputting a password; and

second judging means for judging whether the password input from the password input means corresponds to the stored password in the password storing means,

wherein the predetermined condition includes when there is a correspondence judgment by the second judging means between the password input from the password input means and the stored password in the password storing means.

12. The communication device according to claim 11, wherein the password input from the password input means and the password from another communication device via the telecommunication line are a same password.

13. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

password storing means for previously storing a password for the personal information storing means;

password input means, provided to the communication device, for inputting a password; and

judging means forjudging whether the password input from the password input means corresponds to the stored password in the password storing means,

wherein the predetermined condition includes when there is a correspondence judgment by the judging means between the password input from the password input means and the stored password in the password storing means.

14. A storage medium for recording a program for enabling an information processor to function as:

information receiving means for receiving personal information and general information via a telecommunication line, and storing the received personal information in personal information storing means and the received general information in general information storing means, the personal information being for a specified individual;

information reproducing means capable of reproducing the personal information stored in the personal information storing means under a predetermined condition and capable of reproducing the general information stored in the general information storing means;

reproduction request means for requesting the information reproducing means to reproduce the stored personal and general information; and

a transfer device that automatically transfers general information to the at least one destination terminal after the information receiving means receives the general information and the general information is stored in the general information storing means, and does not transfer the personal information to the at least one destination terminal, even after the information receiving means receives the personal information and the personal information is stored in the personal information personal information storing means.

15. The storage medium according to claim 14, further comprising transfer setting means for setting whether an automatic transfer function is ON or OFF, wherein said transfer means automatically transfers only general information to the at least one destination tenninal when the automatic transfer function is ON.