Claims
- 1. A communication apparatus for successively performing a plurality of transmissions, comprising:
- detection means for detecting an incoming call even while performing a current transmission;
- control means responsive to the incoming call detected by said detection means, for determining whether or not the incoming call can be accepted; and
- rejection means for transmitting a rejection signal to a calling side of the incoming call received while performing the current transmission as a response to the incoming call detected by said detection means, so as to inform that the incoming call was rejected;
- wherein said control means causes said rejection means to transmit the rejection signal to the calling side and delays an outgoing call for a new transmission for a predetermined time period after the current transmission is terminated, in order to accept a next incoming call from the calling side, in a case where the previous incoming call detected by said detection means was rejected.
- 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, if sequential transmissions are instructed and a remaining part of the sequential transmissions exists, said control means delays a calling for the remaining part of the sequential transmissions for a predetermined period when said detection means detects an incoming call while performing the sequential transmissions.
- 3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined period is longer than a time interval between a time when said detection means detects the incoming call from the calling side while performing the current transmission and a time when said detection means detects the incoming call transmitted by a redialing of said calling side.
- 4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmissions are facsimile transmissions.
- 5. A communication apparatus for successively performing a plurality of transmissions, comprising:
- detection means for detecting an incoming call even while performing a current transmission;
- rejection means responsive to the incoming call detected by said detection means, for determining whether or not a communication operation corresponding to the incoming call is able to be performed, and for transmitting a response to the incoming call to a calling side of the incoming call so as to reject the communication operation corresponding to the incoming call, in accordance with a determination;
- delaying means for delaying a calling for a new transmission for a predetermined time period after the current transmission is terminated, if said rejection means rejected the communication operation corresponding to the incoming call because of the current transmission; and
- accepting means for, if the communication operation is able to be performed when the incoming call is detected, accepting the incoming call and performing the communication operation corresponding to the incoming call.
- 6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined period is longer than a time interval between a time when said rejection means rejects the incoming call and a time when said detection means detects the incoming call transmitted by a redialing of said calling side.
- 7. A communication apparatus comprising:
- communication means for performing communication;
- detection means for detecting an incoming call even while a current transmission is being performed by said communication means;
- request means for requiring transmission by said communication means;
- control means responsive to the incoming call, for determining whether or not the incoming call can be accepted, and for causing said communication means to successively perform a plurality of transmissions at intervals of a first time period, in a case where the plurality of transmissions are required by said request means and where said detection means does not detect the incoming call while the transmission is being performed by said communication means; and
- rejection means for transmitting a rejection signal to a calling side of the incoming call received while performing the current transmission as a response to the incoming call so as to reject the incoming call,
- wherein said control means causes said rejection means to transmit the rejection signal to the calling side and delays an outgoing call for a next transmission required by said request means after a second time period longer than the first time period has elapsed after the current transmission is terminated, in order to accept a next incoming call from the calling side, in a case where the incoming call detected by said detection means was rejected.
- 8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein, said control means causes said communication means to perform communication in accordance with a detection of the incoming call within the first and second time periods.
- 9. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said communication means performs facsimile communication.
- 10. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said communication means performs communication via an ISDN.
- 11. A communication method for successively performing a plurality of transmissions at intervals of a predetermined period, comprising the steps of:
- detecting receiving an incoming call even while a transmission is being performed;
- determining whether or not the incoming call can be accepted, in response to the incoming call;
- transmitting a rejection signal to a calling side of the incoming call received while performing a current transmission as a response to the incoming call, so as to inform that the incoming call cannot be accepted; and
- delaying an outgoing call for a new transmission for a predetermined time period after the current transmission is terminated, in order to accept a next incoming call from the calling side, in a case where the incoming call was rejected.
- 12. A communication method according to claim 11, further comprising a step of rejecting the incoming call which is detected by said detecting step.
- 13. A communication method according to claim 11, further comprising a step of accepting an incoming call which is detected while no communication is being performed.
- 14. A communication method according to claim 11, further comprising a step of setting a value to a counter, in order to determine a timing of the outgoing call for another communication, in accordance with the detection by the detecting step.
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/048,259 filed Apr. 16, 1993, now abandoned.
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