Technique for retransmission of uncompleted transmissions of broadcast transmissions in a facsimile system

Abstract

A device for broadcast transmission in a facsimile system includes: a memory; a control unit for storing the telephone number of a failed transmission in a broadcast transmission and other related data as transmission information in a certain area of the memory; a unit for informing a user of said transmission failure; and a unit for dialing and retransmitting to a corresponding telephone number based on the retransmission information in response to data of a certain key pressed by the user. A method for effecting the broadcast transmission in a facsimile system having a display and a pending job list stored in a memory includes the steps of: performing a broadcast transmission wherein broadcast telephone numbers are read and sequentially dialed, a message is transmitted upon a line connection and information of remaining pages is stored in a given area of the pending job list at the time of a transmission failure of the corresponding message; storing the telephone number of a failed transmission and other related data as the retransmission information in the given area of the pending job list when the corresponding message transmission fails; periodically checking the pending job list and displaying the retransmission information of the pending job list on the display; and returning to the step of broadcast transmission in order that the telephone number of a failed transmission is retransmitted according to a user's command responding to the display of the retransmission information.

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