Patent ID: 7308086

Claim:
A telephone communication apparatus that can be connected to communication paths of a plurality of lines, comprising a host apparatus and a cordless slave apparatus, wherein the cordless slave apparatus can be charged from a power source for operation by being mounted on a charging apparatus, and includes pick-up notification means for detecting whether or not the cordless slave apparatus is mounted on the charging apparatus and providing a notification to the host apparatus when detecting that the cordless slave apparatus is picked up from the charging apparatus, and the host apparatus includes, communication means that can perform communications by switching the communication paths of a plurality of lines; selection means for selecting a line for each cordless slave apparatus; and quick communication means for immediately setting a communication path between a line at which a call has arrived and the cordless slave apparatus via the communication means, when notified from the pick-up notification means of the fact that the cordless slave apparatus is picked up from the charging apparatus in response to a ringing tone that occurs upon arrival of a call from any one of the communication paths, and when the line at which the call has arrived is selected for the picked-up cordless slave apparatus by the selection means, wherein when the line at which a call has arrived is not selected corresponding to the cordless slave apparatus that is picked up from the charging apparatus by the selection means, the quick communication means indicates the line to which the communication request is made to a user via the cordless slave apparatus without setting the communication path between the line and the cordless slave apparatus and connects the line to the cordless slave apparatus after an instruction for connection is input from the user.