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Automated message chronicling system

  • US 4,739,509 A
  • Filed: 03/21/1986
  • Issued: 04/19/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/21/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a business communication system having a plurality of port circuits, each of which is connected to a corresponding terminal device of a principal, a call chronicling system comprising:

  • processing means;

    means interposed between one of said terminal devices, its corresponding port circuit and also connected to said processing means for connecting said processing means to both said port circuit and said terminal device;

    means, in said connecting means, for intercepting digital control messages transmitted by said terminal device and by said corresponding port circuit;

    means in said processing means responsive to said intercepted control messages indicative of either a call origination by a user from terminal device or an incoming call from said port circuit to said terminal device for generating a call log record indicative of the occurrence of said call; and

    means in said processing means responsive to data comprising an arbitrary message entered by said principal via a keyboard associated with said processing means for appending said data to said call log record.

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