Telephone equipment with multiple function

Details Telephone equipment with multiple function Telephone equipment with multiple function

1988-03-24

1990-02-20

Brown, Thomas W.

Telephonic communications

Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis

379 67, 379 77, 379 88, H04M 164, H04M 1100

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049032895

ABSTRACT:
Conventional telephone answering devices incorporated in or combined with a telephone set are now generally used. However, one type of conventional telephone set has a plurality of buttons, for instance, speed dialing, mute, flash or redial buttons, and further the telephone answering device incorporated in the telephone set has also many buttons for controlling the device. The user therefore is confused at the sight of a number of buttons and hesitates to use the device. Most conventional telephone answering devices can be remotely operated from a remote location by using the number keys, and asterisk and pound sign keys of a pushbutton telephone so as to rewind, fast forward, or record an outgoing or incoming message. The present invention makes common use of the pushbuttons for the telephone set and the telephone answering device, and also the telephone answering device can be manually operated at home in the same way as in remote control operation by using the same kinds of push phone buttons of an outside telephone set. The present invention also makes it possible to record a two-way conversation manually by use of some of the buttons during off-hook mode of telephone set.

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