Patent ID: 6504911
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A telephone device, comprising:an incoming caller telephone number detector for detecting a telephone number of an incoming call to a user of the device; memory means having a call subscriber telephone number unit made up of a rewritable memory for memorizing a plurality of telephone numbers and a call subscriber information audio unit made up of a nonvolatile memory having an unrewritable region and a rewritable region, wherein the unrewritable region is prerecorded to contain a plurality of commonly occurring surnames and said subscriber telephone number unit contains a plurality of telephone numbers corresponding respectively to ones of said plurality of commonly occurring surnames selected by the user; microphone means for use by the user to enter information audio signals of names of incoming callers into the rewritable region of the nonvolatile memory of the call subscriber information audio unit, wherein said; an electroacoustic transducer to which an incoming caller information audio signal read out from the memory means is supplied; and comparing means for comparing whether an incoming caller telephone number detected by the incoming caller telephone number detector is coincident with one of the plurality of telephone numbers memorized in the memory means upon an incoming call, wherein when coincidence is found coincident data is output therefrom and fed to the memory means so that the incoming caller information audio signal corresponding to the telephone number of the incoming call is read out from the memory means by the coincident data from the comparing means and fed to the electroacoustic transducer and the name of the incoming caller is reproduced as audible sounds.