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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1994
Yutaka Nonomura, Iwakura, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A facsimile system of distinctive ringing type capable of selective telephone and facsimile communications with a remote party calling one of telephone numbers used by the system such that the telephone numbers are called by respective call signals having respective different patterns, the system including a pattern registering device for registering as a facsimile reception pattern the pattern of the call signal assigned to call the telephone number which is exclusively used to receive a facsimile signal from the remote party, a pattern determining device for determining whether the received call signal has the registered facsimile reception pattern, a facsimile receiving device for automatically processing the facsimile signal if the call signal has the facsimile reception pattern, and a conditional facsimile reception device for automatically processing the facsimile signal if a predetermined condition is satisfied, even if the received call signal does not have the registered facsimile reception pattern.