The present invention relates to a facsimile relaying method for transmitting common picture information to a plurality of facsimile receivers for a facsimile transmitter.
A facsimile communication system is available today which is of the type using a facsimile relay station to allow a facsimile transmitter to send same picture information to a plurality of remote facsimile receivers. In such a system, picture information sent out from the transmitter is once stored in a picture memory of the relay station and, then, sequentially transmitted therefrom to the receivers which the transmitter has designated.
In a communication system of the type described, the transmitter designates receivers relying on the operator's manipulation of a dial, that is, manual entry of telephone numbers assigned to the receivers. A problem encountered with this communication system is that due to carelessness the operator sometimes dial a wrong toll number or does not dial a toll number at all, failing to deliver picture information to the desired receivers.