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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/64 ; H04M 3/53 ; H04M 3/58 ; H04M 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/64 ; H04M 3/53 ; H04M 3/58 ; H04M 7/00 ;
Abstract
In a communicating apparatus which accommodates a plurality of channels, a message from a sender can be recorded even if a transfer station is busy (a telephone is being employed) or is located at a place where a radio wave does not reach. The communicating apparatus is able to detect a specified signal, such as a tone signal like DTMF or the like, which is transmitted from the sender upon a call transfer. When the specified signal is received, the communication apparatus suspends the transfer of the call and stores a message from the sender using a message recording function of the communicating apparatus.