Patent ID: 6330314
Filing Date: 2001-12-11
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
An answer phone, which, upon receipt of an incoming call, automatically catches the communication line, records a business message sent from the caller, and upon completion of the recording of the business message, allows a display means to provide a display indicating that the business message has been recorded, the answer phone comprising:memory means for preliminarily storing phone numbers of specific callers;receiving means for receiving information from the caller sent through the communication line upon receipt of an incoming call;means for recording the business message from the caller in memory;comparison means for comparing a phone number of the caller included in caller's information that has been received by the receiving means with phone numbers that have been preliminarily stored in the memory means, said comparing being performed after said recording of the business message from the caller in memory;control means for carrying out a display control on the display means based upon the results of comparison by the comparison means; andwherein, when a ring-off signal is detected prior to a start of recording, said control means releases the communication line thereby completing an answering operation and returns to a stand-by state and no display control is effected.