JPH0583357A - Automatic answering telephone system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reproduce a special message only by using caller telephone number data sent from an exchange. CONSTITUTION:Caller telephone number data sent from an exchange at the time of transmitting are detected by a telephone number detecting means 3, stored to a memory 6, and at the time of the message, stored to a message memory 9. During the caller telephone number displaying, a display 10 displays whether or not the message of the caller is reproduced, and then, by pushing a reproducing button 5, the message only of the caller during the present displaying is reproduced.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a message reproducing system for an answering machine having a telephone number recognition function for callers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a message stored in an answering machine is played back from an answering machine, the message is played back in order from the oldest one by a play button.

[0003]

However, in the reproduction method as described above, it is necessary to listen to all messages as to who the message is from or which message from a specific person is. I don't know,
There is a problem that even if only a particular person's message is desired to be listened to, the first message must be reproduced in sequence.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned prior art. It is possible to easily reproduce only the message of a specific person by using the data of the calling party telephone number sent from the exchange. An answering machine that can display that the message was reproduced when the number of the caller is displayed is provided.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, an answering machine of the present invention has a telephone number detecting means for detecting telephone number data coming from a telephone line, and the telephone number detecting means. Memory for storing the stored caller telephone number, display means for displaying the stored caller telephone number, storage device for storing a message, and voice reproduction means for reproducing the message stored in the storage device. And a memory for storing which message corresponds to each caller telephone number, and a reproduction operated when reproducing only the message of the caller while the caller telephone number is displayed on the display means. It consists of a button and a memory that stores for each caller whether a message has been played.

[0006]

With this configuration, when the message recorded by the telephone received while not in the house is played, it is possible to easily grasp the caller and whether or not the message is played,
It is possible to select a specific caller from them and play only the message of that caller.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of the main part of a telephone device according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2 and 3 are flowcharts in one embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a telephone line, 2 is a hook switch, 3 is a telephone number detecting means for detecting an analog signal coming from the telephone line 1 and notifying a telephone number of a calling side, 4 is a central processing unit, 5 is a play button, 6 is a calling party telephone number storage device, 7 is a memory that stores whether or not a message is played back, 8 is a memory that stores the correspondence between a calling party telephone number and a message, and 9 is a message that is stored A storage device, 10 is a display device, and 11 is a message reproducing means.

The operation of the telephone device configured as described above will be described below. As shown in FIG. 2, when the calling party telephone number data arrives from the telephone line 1, it is detected by the telephone number detecting means 3 and the calling party telephone number is stored in the telephone number storage device 5 (STEP 1). The telephone numbers thus input are stored in the telephone number storage device 5 one after another. Further, the message at that time is stored in the storage device (STEP 2), and the correspondence between the caller telephone number and the message is stored in the memory 8 (STEP 3).
Next, a case of confirming the stored calling party telephone number data and the message thereof will be described.

As shown in FIG. 3, when the called party inputs a caller display request from the input device 8 (STEP 4), the telephone number stored at the head of the telephone number storage device 6 and its message are reproduced. Information on whether or not it has been displayed is displayed on the display device 11 (STEP 5). If the caller wants to hear the message, he / she presses the play button 5 there. Then, only the message from the currently displayed caller is played back (STE
P6), the fact that the message from the calling party is reproduced is stored in the memory 7.

According to the above-described embodiment, when a message recorded by a telephone that is received while absent is reproduced, it is possible to easily grasp the calling party and whether or not the message is reproduced. It is possible to select a person and play only the message of the calling party.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, the telephone number detecting means for detecting the telephone number data coming from the telephone line and the memory for storing the calling party telephone number detected by the telephone number detecting means. A display means for displaying the stored caller telephone number, a storage device for storing the message, a voice reproducing means for reproducing the message stored in the storage device, and a corresponding one for the caller telephone number. A memory for storing which message, a play button to be operated when playing only the caller's message while the caller telephone number is displayed on the display means, and a message for each caller Whether or not the caller and the message are played when playing the message recorded by the telephone that was received while the user was out UGA can easily understand, singled out a specific caller from among them, it is possible to play only the message of the caller.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of a telephone device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the telephone device of the present invention when receiving an incoming call.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation when a display request is made by the telephone device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Telephone line 2 Hook switch 3 Telephone number detecting means 4 Central processing unit 5 Play button 6 Caller telephone number storage device 7 Message playback information storage memory 8 Caller telephone number / message correspondence memory 9 Message storage device 10 Display device 11 Message playback means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A telephone number detecting means for detecting telephone number data coming from a telephone line, a memory for storing a telephone number of a calling party detected by the telephone number detecting means, and a stored calling party. Display means for displaying the telephone number,
A storage device for storing the message, a voice reproduction means for reproducing the message stored in the storage device, a memory for storing which message corresponds to each calling party telephone number, and a display for the display means. An answering machine characterized by having a play button that is operated when playing only the caller's message while the caller telephone number is displayed, and a memory that stores whether or not the message was played for each caller apparatus.