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Facsimile system

US6005671A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 19, 1997
Grant dateDec 21, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 19, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/32797
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A facsimile system according to the present invention comprises a job control section, a multiple message transmission object specifying section, a multiple message transmission multiplex access instructing section and a multiple message transmission multiplex access processing section, and the job control section determines whether any transmission file has been specified as an object for multiple message transmission and also a multiplex access instruction has been issued or not, and when a multiplex access instruction has not been issued, the job control section reads out transmission files having been specified as objects for multiple message transmission and continuously transmits the files in succession to the transmission file currently being transmitted, and when the multiplex access instruction has been issued, the job control section reads out transmissions files having been specified as objects for multiple message transmission, by means of multiplex access, and continuously transmits the transmission files.

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