Fujitsu Corporation

Tooru Kino

Akihiro Okada

Katsumi Tanaka

A mail center management system includes a first network accommodating a plurality of subscriber terminals via lines, and a plurality of mail devices connected to the first network. Each of the mail devices, which has a device number and subscriber information about all the subscriber terminals, includes a storage medium for storing mails received from the subscriber terminals. A second network connects the mail devices to each other and transfers the mails between the mail devices. Each of the mail devices includes a first part for determining whether a request to transfer from a first one of the subscriber terminals to a second one of the subscriber terminals includes a subscriber number of the second one of the subscriber terminals or the device number of one of the mail devices together with the subscriber number. Further, each of the mail devices includes a second part for storing, via the second network, the mail in the storage medium of one of the mail devices to which the first and second ones of the subscriber terminals are connected when the first means determines that the request includes no device number and for storing, via the first and second networks, the mail in the storage medium of one of the mail devices to which the second one of the mail devices is connected when the first means determines that the request includes the device number together with the subscriber number.

Mail center management system

A multi-media information service center is coupled to a telephone set and a communication unit via a line network and comprises a line connection part coupled to the line network for connecting the multi-media information service center to a predetermined line of the line network in response to a call which is received from a party which is coupled to an end of the predetermined line opposite to the multi-media information service center. The multi-media information service center further comprises a storage part for storing a voice information, a voice information transmission part coupled to the line network, the line connection part and the storage part for reading the voice information from the storage part and transmitting the voice information to the predetermined line, a discrimination part coupled to the line network for discriminating a communication mode of the party, and a service providing part coupled to the line network and the discrimination part for providing to the party a service which is dependent on a discrimination result in the discrimination part. The voice information transmission part and the discrimination part operate simultaneously after the line connection part connects the multi-media information service center to the predetermined line.

Multi-media information service center and multi-media communication

The kind of medium owned by a user is stored in a service center system and a medium is determined by a request from the transmitting side in accordance with an inquiry to a receiver. Where a voice is used as a medium for the inquiry or the service, the sound piece data to which a descriptor is added and the sentence structure data for forming a single sentence by collecting the sound piece data and formed by a descriptor are stored. When the voice output request is produced, the sound piece data is obtained from the sentence structure data, thereby producing a voice of a desired sentence.

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Tooru Kino