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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1982
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gerald E Shefler, Milwaukie, OR (US);
Ralph J Weaver, III, Milwaukie, OR (US);
Assignee:
Ford Industries, Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
179 / ; 179 / ;
Abstract
Digital apparatus for storing and playing out a recorded announcement selectively over a plurality of telephone lines. The announcement is stored in a memory array, and for each telephone line there is an independently controllable pointer which tracks through the array to read out the announcement. With closely successively received telephone calls, playing out of the announcement over each line does not require the completion of such playing out over any other line.