Telephone system with stimulus operation or default operation

• US 4,885,765 A
• Filed: 10/14/1987
• Issued: 12/05/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Shirakawa, Masakazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Brigance, Gerald
• Assistant Examiner(s): HJERPE, RICHARD A
• Application Number:
  US07/108,223
• Time in Patent Office: 783 Days
• Field of Search: 379/93, 379/96
• US Class Current: 379/93.23
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/247 Telephone sets including user guidance or feature selection means facilitating their use user interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2477 for selecting a function from a menu display H04M1/2474 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00

Abstract

A main apparatus transmits auxiliary information, which is concerned with telephone communications and includes at least an information attribute and an information entity. A telephone terminal apparatus is coupled to the main apparatus by a local telephone line, and has components for controlling the auxiliary information supplied from the main apparatus on the basis of the operation auxiliary information. The components are able to register a predetermined mode corresponding to the auxiliary information in the telephone terminal apparatus.

Claims

1. A telephone system comprising:

a main apparatus for generating at least an information entity to be recognized and an attribute identifier for representing a specific recognition of the information entity; and

a telephone terminal apparatus, coupled to said main apparatus via a telephone line to cause a stimulus operation in which said main apparatus controls said telephone terminal apparatus, said telephone terminal apparatus having

(a) means for determining the attribute identified;

(b) means for storing previously registered data associated with the specific recognition of the information entity;

(c) means for retrieving the previously registered data stored in said storing mans in accordance with the attribute identifier determined by said determining means;

(d) means for implementing, when the previously registered data is retrieved, the information entity with the previously registered data, so that the telephone terminal apparatus executes the specific recognition of the information entity according to the previously registered data implemented by said implementing means even during the stimulus operation, and executes a default operation in response to the attribute identifier and the information entity from said main apparatus; and

(e) means for outputting the information entity from said implementing means in accordance with said previously registered data.

2. A telephone system according to claim 1, wherein:

said attribute identifier and said information entity, both generated in said main apparatus, are associated with a message.

3. A telephone system according to claim 2, wherein:

said telephone terminal apparatus includes a character display for displaying said message as a message output.

4. A telephone system according to claim 2, wherein:

said telephone terminal apparatus includes a lamp display device for displaying said message as a lamp output.

5. A telephone system according to claim 2, wherein:

said telephone terminal apparatus includes a speaker for generating said message as a tone output.

6. A telephone terminal apparatus comprising:

signal separator means, coupled to a telephone line, for separating a voice signal and a digital signal including at least an information entity to be recognized and an attribute identifier for representing a specific recognition of the information entity;

transmitter/receiver means, coupled to said signal separator means, for performing transmission and reception of said voice signal;

key input means for entering a key input;

processing means, having means for executing the specific recognition of the information entity, coupled to said signal separator means and said key input means for processing previously registered data for said executing means, in accordance with the key input entered by said key input means, and decoding the attribute identifier and information entity included in the digital signal separated by said signal separator means, so that said executing means executes the specific recognition of the information entity in accordance with the previously registered data; and

output means for outputting the information entity from said processing means in accordance with said previously registered data.

7. A telephone terminal apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

said attribute identifier and information entity are associated with a message.

8. A telephone terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein:

said processing means causes a character display device to change a display layout of said message, in accordance with a key input from said key input means, corresponding to said attribute, identifier included in said digital signal.

9. A telephone terminal apparatus including at least a display means for displaying information and a key input means for entering a key input, said telephone terminal apparatus comprising:

means for setting a position on said display means where message information is to be displayed, according to the key input entered by said key input means, and

means for causing said message information to be displayed on the position of the display means set by said setting means when said message information is entered in said telephone terminal apparatus via a telephone line,

said causing means retrieving from said setting means a position corresponding to an attribute identifier affixed to said message information, and

said causing means detecting said attribute identifier, which is input together with said message information through said telephone line, thereby to control the position where said message information is to be displayed.