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Telephone answering service with integrated voice and textual message storage

  • US 5,113,429 A
  • Filed: 02/23/1990
  • Issued: 05/12/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A telephone answering system for providing textural messages produced from operators answering telephone calls received by the answering system and voice messages produced by the answering of telephone calls received by the telephone answering system comprising:

  • at least one operator station which is operated by an operator in answering telephone calls, an operator station including a display device for displaying information to be utilized by the operator in answering telephone calls at the operator station and a textual message generating device used by the operator during answering telephone calls for composing textual messages recording information from telephone calls answered by the operator;

    a voice message recording system for recording the voice messages, from telephone calls answered by the answering system, in a memory of the answering system;

    a textual message recording system for recording the textual messages, composed by an operator using the textual message generating device at one of the at least one operator station in answering a telephone call, in the memory of the answering system; and

    a programmed controller for controlling the voice message recording system and the textual message recording system under the control of programming stored in the memory of the answering system, the programmed controller determining telephone number digits of each telephone call received by the answering system to be answered by the answering system, the digits being used by the controller to identify stored information, the stored information being used for controlling whether the received telephone call is to be answered either by the voice message recording system which records information from the answered telephone call in the memory of the answering system or by an operator at one of the at least one operator station who utilizes the information displayed on the display device obtained from the stored information to answer the received telephone call and who composes a textual message from answering the received telephone call which is recorded by the textual message recording system in the memory of the answering system, and controlling the reproduction of messages recorded by the recording system.

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