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Telephonic console with prerecorded voice message and method

  • US 5,539,818 A
  • Filed: 08/07/1992
  • Issued: 07/23/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/07/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A telephonic console for use in a telephonic call distribution system for selectively interconnecting a plurality of telephonic units of an external telephonic network with the telephonic console and a plurality of other telephonic consoles of the system, the improvement being a prerecorded voice message system, comprising:

  • a portable, nonvolatile, voice message storage unit with a plurality of different recorded voice messages;

    means for releasable interconnection of the portable voice message storage unit with the telephonic console;

    means for automatic playback of one of the recorded messages to one of the plurality of telephonic units connected through the external network when a telephonic call from one of the telephonic units is connected to the telephonic console; and

    means at the telephonic console for controlling the recorded message playback means to selectively and automatically play one of the recorded voice messages of the portable voice message storage unit after the portable voice message storage unit has been connected to the telephonic console.

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