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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Motoaki Yoshino, Fujisawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/100 ;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to effectively utilize functions of a communication apparatus which can be connected to a communication network providing a call line identification presentation service. In order to achieve this object, setting as to whether or not call line identification presentation is to be performed to a communication destination is switched according to a communication mode at a time of call generation, and a call is actually generated based on the switched and thus selected setting, thereby improving operability in the switching as to whether or not the call line identification presentation is to be performed.