Telephone answering machine with digital storage of announcement

Details Telephone answering machine with digital storage of announcement Telephone answering machine with digital storage of announcement

1987-01-12

1988-11-01

Dwyer, James L.

Telephonic communications

Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis

Multilingual system or operation

379 76, 379 77, H04M 165

Patent

active

047825103

ABSTRACT:
A telephone answering machine with digital storage of announcements and messages and enhanced message playback features. When an incoming call is detected the line is seized and a predetermined outgoing message is placed upon the telephone line. The outgoing message prompts the calling party to provide a telephone number, a priority code, or other information which can be input via a telephone DTMF keypad. The DTMF tones sent by the calling party are decoded and stored in a memory. When recalled by the user, the numbers corresponding to the DTMF tones are presented to the user as spoken words via a voice synthesizer. In addition, the machine is responsive to a set of commands which allows the user to play back the messages in chronological order or by a selected priority code, advance or backup to a particular message, and record a new outgoing message.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4049916 (1977-09-01), Danner
patent: 4475009 (1984-10-01), Rais et al.
patent: 4600809 (1986-07-01), Tatsumi et al.

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