Telephone with built-in emergency panic switch, long distance toll timer and music on hold cards
OwnerKeith K. Wonginventor
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Abstract
An improved telephone with three built in features that provide added conveniences and additional benefits for the user. These features are: Money Saver Timer, which tells the caller the amount of time is left of the current message or toll unit on a long distance call; Telephone Panic Switch, when pressed, will activate a circuit to automatically call and broadcast an emergency message to a group of pre-stored numbers; Music On Hold cards, which allow the user to play different music programs for the HOLD feature. These cards can be changed frequently to provide different music programs to the frequent caller.
Claims10
A telephone comprising one, two, or, all of the following:
- a timer circuit to save long distance tolls;
- a panic switch to activate a circuit to automatically call multiple numbers and to broadcast an emergency message;
- a means to allow the phone user to play different music recordings when the phone is on HOLD by plugging in different music generator cards.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.