Telephone answering and message recording apparatus

Details Telephone answering and message recording apparatus Telephone answering and message recording apparatus

1973-06-04

1976-01-27

Konick, Bernard

1791001VC, H04M 164

Patent

active

039353907

ABSTRACT:
Telephone answering and message recording apparatus is disclosed which includes an outgoing message delivery system for delivering several messages to each caller, the messages to each caller being separated in time by intervening incoming message recording intervals, and the length of the intervening message recording intervals being determined by voice-operated circuits which determine, for each such interval, whether (a) the caller has started speaking, and whether (b) after commencing to speak, the caller has paused for more than a predetermined interval. After (a) and (b) have occurred, a circuit responsive to the voice-operated circuits initiates circuit action to commence the transmission of the next outgoing message to the caller. The disclosed apparatus includes circuitry for restoring the apparatus to its "awaiting call" condition if the caller remains silent for a predetermined interval after any outgoing message. Preferably, no non-speech signals (e.g., "beep tones") are transmitted to the caller (except during remote playback, or where required, e.g., by FCC or state telecommunications laws or regulations). At least some of the outgoing messages are questions addressed to the caller to elicit, one at a time, specific items of information, such as the caller's telephone number, the caller's name, his business, and the like. The disclosed apparatus also includes a circuit which responds to the lifting of the handset of any telephone connected to the same telephone line as the disclosed apparatus by suppressing further outgoing messages and subsequently resetting the apparatus to receive the next incoming call. The disclosed apparatus may also include a monitoring speaker and associated circuit whereby both the incoming and outgoing messages may be contemporaneously monitored by the user of the apparatus, and an automatically reset squelch circuit including a pushbutton which may be depressed to squelch the monitoring of any incoming call, the squelch circuit automatically resetting itself so that the next incoming call can be monitored without releasing or otherwise manipulating the pushbutton. A novel ring discriminator circuit is also disclosed.

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patent: 3376390 (1968-04-01), Hashimoto
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