Single cassette answering machine with dual phone line and mailb

Details Single cassette answering machine with dual phone line and mailb Single cassette answering machine with dual phone line and mailb

1994-07-06

1996-06-18

Hofsass, Jeffrey

Telephonic communications

Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis

Dynamic audio signal recording or reproduction

379 70, 379 68, 379 77, H04M 165

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055286690

ABSTRACT:
An answering machine has a single tape for recording phone messages wherein messages are recorded on at least two tracks. The answering machine optionally includes a voice synthesis system for generating announcement messages and a microphone for recording announcement messages and monitoring audio events either over a phone line or via a recording. Recordings on each track are executed in the same direction. In one embodiment of the invention, a first track accepts messages received without requiring that a code be transmitted. Messages are recorded on a second track in a mailbox mode of operation only when a predetermined mailbox code is received. A second embodiment includes inputs for two phone lines. The first tape track is dedicated to a first phone while the second track is dedicated to the second phone line. A third embodiment further includes the capability to record on third and fourth tracks which function as mailbox tracks for respective ones of the first and second tracks. Various modes of remote operation are initiated by a transmission of appropriate touch tone codes.

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