Telephonic communications – Reception of calling information at substation in wireline... – Extracting call id from transmitted signal
Reexamination Certificate
1998-05-29
2001-12-11
Tsang, Fan (Department: 2645)
Telephonic communications
Reception of calling information at substation in wireline...
Extracting call id from transmitted signal
C379S088210, C379S067100, C379S088220, C379S142010
Reexamination Certificate
active
06330314
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an answer phone.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Conventionally, there are answer phones which, upon receipt of an incoming call, automatically catch the communication line, send a response message that has been registered beforehand to the corresponding communication line and, upon completion of the sending of the response message, record an arrival business message from the communication line. In such answer phones, after having recorded the business message, the user is allowed to easily recognize that the business message has been recorded by an LED (Light Emitting Diode) or back light turning on and off or by information such as the number of recorded messages displayed on the screen such as a LCD.
Moreover, in recent years, answer phones, which is adopted to the caller ID service in which, upon receipt of an incoming call, a phone number on the caller side is informed, have been proposed. In such caller ID service correspondence-type answer phones, those answer phones have been proposed in which phone numbers on the caller side are memorized in association with the recorded business messages, and during playback of the business messages, the phone numbers that have been memorized in association with the business messages are displayed on the screen such as a LCD.
In the above-mentioned conventional apparatuses, however, although the user can easily recognize whether or not business messages have been recorded, the user is not allowed to recognize whether or not a business message from a desired caller has been recorded until he or she actually play back the recorded business messages; this takes a lot of time for the user to recognize. Moreover, in the answer phone on the caller ID correspondence side, although it is possible to recognize whether or not a business message from a desired caller has been recorded by successively displaying the phone numbers that have been memorized in association with the business messages on the screen through a predetermined operation, the user requires complicated operations, failing to make a prompt recognition.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The objective of the present invention is to provide an answer phone which allows the user to positively recognize whether or not a business message from a desired caller has been recorded promptly without the need for complicated operations.
In order to achieve the above objective, the answer phone of the present invention, which, upon receipt of an incoming call, automatically catches the communication line, records a business message sent from the caller, and upon completion of the recording of the business message, allows a display section to provide a display indicating that the business message has been recorded, is provided with: a receiving section for receiving information from the caller sent through the communication line upon receipt of an incoming call, a memory section for preliminarily storing phone numbers of specific callers, a comparison section for comparing the phone numbers from the caller included in the information from the callers that has been received by the receiving section with the phone numbers that have been preliminarily stored in the memory section, and a control section for carrying out a display control on the display section based upon the results of comparison.
In the above-mentioned answer phone, when, upon receipt of an incoming call, information from the caller sent through the communication line is received by the receiving section, the comparison section compares the phone numbers from the callers included in the information from the caller that has been received by the receiving section with the phone numbers that have been preliminarily stored in the memory section, and based on the results of the comparison, the control section controls the display section.
In other words, the answer phone of the present invention allows the user to promptly recognize whether or not a business message from a desired caller has been recorded easily by differentiating the state of display indicating that any business message has been recorded, depending on the cases in which the phone number from the caller coincides with any of the phone numbers that have been preliminarily stored and in which it does not coincide with any of those numbers.
For a fuller understanding of the nature and advantages of the invention, reference should be made to the ensuing detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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Escalante Ovidio
Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
Tsang Fan
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