Communication terminal adaptor
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKanichi Yoshino
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Abstract
A communication terminal adaptor, or an automatic dialer, for connecting a communication terminal such as a facsimile apparatus and a telephone line network, is capable of handling both the push button signal and the dial pulse signal in mixed manner, and transmitting the identification information of the communication terminal, stored in advance in the adaptor, upon receiving the tone prompt signal from the destination station without referring to the communication terminal. Thus the telephone connection can be made in simpler and more prompt manner.
Claims12
A communication terminal adaptor for connecting a communication terminal and a telephone line network, comprising:
- a terminal interface for connecting a communication terminal and supplying electric power to the communication terminal;
- a line interface for connecting a telephone line network;
- connection means for connecting the communication terminal and the telephone line network;
- memory means for storing a dial number;
- reception means for receiving a first dialing signal from the communication terminal and a predetermined signal through the telephone line network;
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- transmission means for transmitting predetermined information through the telephone line network, upon reception of the predetermined signal by said reception means, in a case where the first dialing signal received by sad reception means corresponds to the dial number stored in said memory means.
A communication terminal adaptor for connecting a communication terminal and a telephone line network, comprising:
- a terminal interface for connecting the communication terminal;
- a line interface for connecting the telephone line network;
- connection means for connecting the communication terminal and the telephone line network;
- memory means for storing a dial number;
- reception means for receiving a first dialing signal from the communication terminal and a predetermined signal through the telephone line network;
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- transmission means for transmitting predetermined information through the telephone line network, upon reception of the predetermined signal by said reception means, in a case where the first dialing signal received by said reception means corresponds to the dial number stored in said memory means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.