Computer controlled telephone answering system

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1976-10-18

1980-04-29

Brown, Thomas W.

H04M 350

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042007720

ABSTRACT:
A computer controlled telephone answering system to serve a large number of subscribers over a vast geographic area, utilizing a plurality of remote site trunk concentrators adjacent to each telephone company central office to reduce the number of trunk lines required to service subscribers. A central site of this answering system, serving as a facility to answer calls relayed through the remote sites, also includes a trunk concentrator to further reduce the number of trunk lines to operator positions. A computer at the central site controls the entire system, determines switching paths from a subscriber line through the concentrator, to an operator, furnishes answering information to operators and stores instructions for answering incoming messages. The system includes; a line scanner which counts rings on an incoming line to determine whether the line should be answered, and an arrangement in the control computer for controlling coupling of a signal on a line to be answered to a selected operator position having a visual display, to which is transmitted data relative to the subscriber associated with a call to be answered by the selected operator position.

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