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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michitaka Toshimoto, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/64 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/64 ;
Abstract
An answering system of the present invention, connected to a public line or a private line, is capable of recording and reproducing audio and/or visual data, and is adopted, for example, in a telephone and a mobile communication terminal. The present answering system includes confirming units for confirming whether a message sent to a receiver by the unspecified caller with an arbitrary ID has been processed by the receiver, when the unspecified caller accesses again with the arbitrary ID.