Telephone apparatus
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorShuichi Misumi
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Abstract
A telephone apparatus of the present invention comprises a telephone number comparator for comparing a telephone number included in caller information delivered from caller identification delivery service with a telephone number registered in an electronic telephone directory, and displays the telephone number registered in the electronic telephone directory in display unit when the telephone numbers match at least in part as a result of the comparison. The telephone apparatus is thus able to display a correct telephone number of the incoming call and dial the telephone number correctly when making a callback.
Claims7
A telephone apparatus comprising:
- a) a caller information receiving unit for receiving caller information delivered from caller identification delivery service;
- b) a caller information storage unit for storing the received caller information;
- c) a display unit for displaying the received caller information;
- d) a dial signal transmitter for transmitting a dial signal;
- e) an electronic telephone directory for registering a telephone number and the like;
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- f) a telephone number comparator for comparing a telephone number included in the caller information stored in said caller information storage unit with the telephone number registered in said electronic telephone directory,
- wherein said display unit displays a telephone number based on the telephone number registered in said electronic telephone directory when the telephone numbers match at least in part as a result of comparison by said telephone number comparator.
A telephone apparatus comprising:
- a) a caller information receiving unit for receiving caller information delivered from caller identification delivery service:
- b) a caller information storage unit for storing the received caller information;
- c) a display unit for displaying the received caller information;
- d) a dial signal transmitter for transmitting a dial signal;
- e) an electronic telephone directory for registering a telephone number and the like;
- and
- f) a telephone number comparator for comparing a telephone number included in the caller information stored in said caller information storage unit with the telephone number registered in said electronic telephone directory,
- wherein said dial signal transmitter dials a telephone number based on the telephone number registered in said electronic telephone directory when the telephone numbers match at least in part as a result of comparison by said telephone number comparator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.