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Automatic telephone answering apparatus

  • US 4,608,458 A
  • Filed: 02/01/1984
  • Issued: 08/26/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/03/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automatic telephone answering apparatus comprising:

  • means for detecting a telephone call from a calling telephone and in response engaging a loop circuit;

    means for reproducing a first message after said loop circuit is engaged in order to announce a name of a called party and ask a caller'"'"'s name;

    a wireless transceiver carried by the called party;

    means for amplifying and reproducing a caller'"'"'s voice in the region of a called party telephone set to which said apparatus is connected when the caller gives his name in response to the first message;

    means for receiving an acknowledgement signal from said transceiver to automatically reproduce a second message and transmit said second message to the calling telephone;

    timer means for establishing time durations; and

    means for reproducing a third message after a first time duration established by the timer has elapsed when the caller does not give his name in response to the first message.

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