Telephonic communications – Audio message storage – retrieval – or synthesis – Multilingual system or operation
Patent
1991-09-10
1994-04-19
Dwyer, James L.
Telephonic communications
Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis
Multilingual system or operation
379 88, 379 67, 379 97, H04M 164
Patent
active
053053753
ABSTRACT:
An information service apparatus for serving one of messages stored to a caller through a telephone line, comprises: message storing unit; a table unit for storing plural tables for forming a hierarchical system for reproduction of the messages, each of the tables storing address data of a set of tablets out of the plural tables, and an address of the one of the messages, and a given code; a signal detector for detecting a data signal sent though the telephone line; and a controller response to a call for executing a first function in which the controller accesses one of the tables to determine the present scene where one of the messages is served, reads the address data of the set of the tables to next access to either of the set of the tables in accordance with the data signal by the caller, reproduces one of the messages in accordance with the read address, and detects the given code. The first function is repeatedly executed until detection of the given code and a second function that the first controller effects a given optional function in the presence of the given code. The general customer can use the optional service, such as mail box, recording, calling extension telephone in addition to the basic function of public information service.
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patent: 4747127 (1988-05-01), Hansen et al.
patent: 4821311 (1989-04-01), Hashimoto
patent: 4845739 (1989-07-01), Katz
Iwanaga Shigehisa
Sagara Ryoji
Shinohara Akihiro
Sumi Yuji
Dwyer James L.
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
Tsang Fan
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