Patent ID: 8644483

Claim:
A telephone relay apparatus comprising: a specific storing unit which stores a specific telephone number serving as a telephone number of at least one specific telephone terminal used by a specific terminal user; a peripheral storing unit which stores peripheral telephone numbers serving as telephone numbers of a plurality of peripheral telephone terminals scheduled to be located at a periphery of the specific terminal user; a request receiving unit which receives a line connecting request from an outgoing telephone terminal of an arbitrary telephone outgoing user to said specific telephone terminal; a specific connecting unit which tries a connection of a telephone call execution line from said outgoing telephone terminal to said specific telephone terminal by said specific telephone number in response to said received line connecting request; a peripheral selecting unit which selects at least one peripheral telephone terminal according to a predetermined transfer trying order when said telephone call execution line to said specific telephone terminal is not connected; a telephone call forward unit which tries a connection of said telephone call execution line from said outgoing telephone terminal to said selected peripheral telephone terminal with said peripheral telephone numbers; and an order storing unit which stores a scheduled accompanying user of said specific terminal user at a line connection timing together with a transfer trying order, wherein said peripheral storing unit stores at least some of said peripheral telephone numbers for each of said peripheral telephone terminals carried by said scheduled accompanying user, and said peripheral selecting unit selects said peripheral telephone terminal of said scheduled accompanying user stored at said line connection timing matched with a current date and time in said transfer trying order, the scheduled accompanying user being scheduled to be located at the periphery of the specific terminal user.