Communication apparatus receiving information from portable information medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShinji Tsuchida, Shoichi Takashima, Michihiro Izumi
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Abstract
In a telephone exchange apparatus according to this invention, a message or data can be registered in an information medium such as an electronic notebook at a location away from a telephone, and the information medium is attached to the telephone to load the registered data. With this simple operation, data can be registered in a plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses, or a message can be displayed on telephones, thereby preventing registration from being forgotten, and informing a message.
Claims24
A communication apparatus which accommodates a plurality of terminals including a first terminal to which a portable information medium is connected and a second terminal which has manual input means, said apparatus comprising:
- reception means for receiving a message from the portable information medium, via the portable information medium connected to the first terminal;
- control means for controlling the second terminal so as to display that the message is received;
- and
- outputting means for outputting the message received by said reception means when a password is manually input from said manual input means of the second terminal so as to control displaying on the second terminal based on a message displayed on the portable information medium.
A method for controlling a message transmission system which accommodates a plurality of terminals including a first terminal to which a portable information medium is connected and a second terminal which has manual input means, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a message displayed on the portable information medium, via the first terminal;
- controlling the second terminal so as to display that the message is received;
- and
- outputting the message displayed on the portable information medium and received in said receiving step to a display on the second terminal when a password is manually input from said manual input means of the second terminal.
A communication system which accommodates a plurality of terminals, said system comprising:
- connecting means for connecting a portable information medium to the system;
- storing means for storing information received from the portable information medium, corresponding to number data;
- detecting means for detecting a caller ID when the system is called;
- and
- informing means for informing the plurality of terminals of the information stored in said storing means, corresponding to the number data which is coincident with the caller ID.
A method for controlling a communication system which accommodates a plurality of terminals and a portable information medium, comprising the steps of:
- storing information received from the portable information medium, corresponding to number data;
- detecting a caller ID when the system is called;
- and
- informing the plurality of terminals of the information stored in said storing step, corresponding to the number data which is coincident with the caller ID.
A communication system comprising:
- a plurality of terminals including a first terminal to which a portable information medium is connected;
- reception means for receiving a message from the portable information medium, via the portable information medium connected to the first terminal;
- control means for controlling a second terminal so as to display that the message is received;
- and
- outputting means for outputting the message received by said reception means when a password is input from the second terminal, so as to control displaying on the second terminal based on a message displayed on the portable information medium,
- wherein the first terminal includes converting means for performing a format conversion on the message received from the portable information medium such that the message in a first format for transferring from the portable information medium to the first terminal, is converted into the message in a second format for transferring from the first terminal to the second terminal.
A method for controlling a message transmission system which accommodates a plurality of terminals including a first terminal to which a portable information medium is connected, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a message displayed on the portable information medium, via the first terminal;
- controlling a second terminal so as to display that the message is received;
- and
- outputting the message displayed on the portable information medium and received in said receiving step when a password is input from the second terminal,
- wherein the message is converted in the first terminal such that the message in a first format for transferring from the portable information medium to the first terminal, is converted into the message in a second format for transferring from the first terminal to the second terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.