Memorandum recorder for use with a telephone
OwnerTina L. Nordenstrominventor
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Abstract
A memorandum recorder for use with a telephone including a speaker adapted to emit audio signals therefrom. Also included is a memory device for storing audio signals thereon. Finally, a control mechanism is connected to a conventional telephone and is adapted to allow conventional communication via the telephone in a first mode of operation, to allow storage of audio signals inputed from a mouthpiece of the telephone in a second mode of operation upon the depression of a record button, and to allow playback of stored audio signals via the speaker in a third mode of operation upon the depression of a playback button.
Claims1
A new and improved memorandum recorder for use with a telephone comprising, in combination:
- a recorder unit including:
- a housing with an upper semicircular portion having an arcuate edge and a planar edge and a lower semicircular portion having an arcuate edge and a planar edge continuous with the planar edge of the upper section whereby the arcuate edge of the upper portion and the arcuate edge of the lower portion form a valley therebetween at a central extent of the housing, a total length of the combination of the upper planar edge and the lower planar edge being a length of the telephone and adapted to be coupled thereto;
- an input jack for accepting a communication line coupled to the telephone,
- an output jack for accepting a communication line coupled to a telecommunication means,
- a speaker with an associated volume control means for adjusting the volume of audio signals emitted therefrom,
- memory means comprising an EPROM situated within an interior space of the housing and adapted to store audio signals thereon, and
- control means situated within the interior space of the housing and coupled to the input jack, output jack, speaker, and memory means, the control means adapted to allow communication between the input jack and output jack in a first mode of operation thereby allowing use of the telephone and telecommunication means, to allow storage of audio signals from a mouthpiece of the telephone via the input jack in a second mode of operation upon the depression of a record button, and to allow playback of stored audio signals via the speaker in a third mode of operation upon the depression of a playback button whereby a user may selectively control the playback of the audio signals by depressing a rewind button and a forward button;
- said control means further adapted to record audio information received via the telecommunication means;
- said control means also adapted to allowing operation of the telephone regardless in which mode of operation the control means is being employed;
- said playback button and record button being situated on the arcuate edge of the upper portion of the housing;
- said speaker means being situated on a top surface of the lower portion of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.