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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1978
Charles W Ho, Lafayette, CA (US);
Tohru Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Dictran International Corp., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
An automatic telephone answering and recording apparatus comprises a first cassette tape on which a specific answering message content has previously been recorded, a circuit operating in response to call signals sent by a caller to close the speaking circuit of an associated telephone set and to carry out telephone line connection, an answering circuit for reproducing said answering message content through the telephone line to the caller, a second cassette tape which is still unrecorded, and incoming message recording circuit for recording on the second cassette tape an incoming message content sent through the telephone line from the caller. The telephone line connection circuit operating to carry out the line connection in response to a first specific number of call signals from the caller after a recording of an incoming message has been carried out and in response to a second specific number of call signals differing from the first specific number of call signals in the case where there has been no recording of an incoming message.