Telephonic answering device
AssigneeInternational Standard Electric Corporation
InventorsAlessandro Imgegnoli, Corona Ennio
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Abstract
A telephonic answering device effective to operate in a plurality of modes comprises a display unit effective to provide a visual indication of the operating modes and/or possible malfunctions of the telephonic answering device, and a microprocessor driving the display unit and effective to discriminate between effective and noneffective telephonic calls to rewind the message tape, in the case of a noneffective call, substantially to the point corresponding to the begin of said noneffective call.
Claims5
A telephonic answering device effective to operate according to a plurality of modes, including announcement recording and playback modes, telephonic message recording and playback modes, a remotely controlled message playback mode, and a tone sending mode that sends a plurality of time spaced tones to initiate said remotely controlled playback mode in accordance with a preselected voice code,
- comprising in combination,
- announcement and message recording means for recording announcements and telephonic messages and playing back said announcements and telephonic messages respectively,
- first and second means for driving said announcement and message recording means in either forward or reverse directions respectively,
- a variable-time voice coding means to control the initiation of said telephonic answering device in said remotely controlled playback mode,
- said voice coding means being responsive to voice sounds of the calling party enunciated during time intervals between said spaced tones to initiate said telephonic message playback mode,
- said voice coding means responding to said voice sounds to vary said time intervals between adjacent tones.
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