Communication apparatus

• US 5,267,307 A
• Filed: 06/13/1991
• Issued: 11/30/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Izumi, Michihiro, Takashima, Shoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shehata, M. W.
• Application Number:
  US07/715,020
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• Field of Search: 379/354, 379/355, 379/201, 379/210, 379/211, 379/212
• US Class Current: 379/354
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/006 Call diverting means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/54 Arrangements for diverting calls for one subscriber to another predetermined subscriber based on the calling party profile H04M3/42059; based on location H04M3/42348; based on presence H04M3/42365; to voice mail H04M3/53308
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0428 Integrated services digital network, i.e. systems for transmission of different types of digitised signals, e.g. speech, data, telecentral, television signals
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 379/909 Alternatives
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 379/911 Distinctive ringing

Abstract

A communication apparatus includes a memory for storing extension number information or transfer destination information in association with calling party number information, a unit for receiving calling party number information sent from a calling party at a called party, a unit for comparing the calling party number information received by the receiving unit with the calling party number information stored in the memory; and a unit for notifying a call reception to an extension terminal equipment identified by the extension number information associated with the calling party number information received by the receiving unit, or transferring a call reception to the transfer destination associated with the calling party number information received by the receiving unit, respectively, in accordance with the comparison result by the comparing unit.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

memory means for storing calling-party information in association with calling-party information representing a called party, said memory means storing a first group of a plurality of sets of calling-party information in correspondence with a first called party and storing a second group of a plurality of sets of calling-party information in correspondence with a second called party;

comparing means for comparing calling-party information sent from a calling party with the calling-party information stored in said memory means, and for discriminating whether the calling-party information sent from the calling party belongs to the first group or the second group;

selecting means for selecting the first or the second called party corresponding to the calling-party information sent from the calling party, in accordance with a comparison result obtained by said comparing means;

generating means for generating a reception sound corresponding to the first or second called party selected by said selecting means,

wherein said generating means generates, as well as a reception sound for all receptions to notify an operator of all receptions, a first reception sound when said comparing means detects that the calling-party information stored in said memory means does not coincide with the calling-party information sent from the calling party, and generates a second or third reception sound corresponding to the first or second called party selected by said selecting means when the first or second group of calling-party information stored in said memory means coincides with the calling-party information sent from the calling party; and

reception process means for executing a reception process in accordance with a reception instruction provided by the operator, after said generating means generates the first, second or third reception sound.

2. A communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said communication apparatus is an apparatus connected to a communication network having a function to transmit calling party information.

3. A communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said communication network is an integrated service digital network.

4. A communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said memory means additionally stores one-touch or key dial information in association with said calling party information.