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Method for system and message activation based on distinctive ringing

  • US 5,577,104 A
  • Filed: 05/06/1994
  • Issued: 11/19/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/05/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A single telephone answering device for use with a single telephone line, comprising:

  • means in said single telephone answering device for recording a plurality of outgoing messages, each outgoing message being associated with a particular different type of ring received on the single telephone line;

    a single ring type identification means in said single telephone answering device, coupled to the single telephone line, for identifying a ring type received on said single telephone line; and

    a playback unit in said single telephone answering device, coupled to said ring type identification means and to said single telephone line, and being responsive to said ring type identification means for automatically playing back on said single telephone line a selected one of said plurality of recorded outgoing messages which corresponds to said received ring type identified by said ring type identification means; and

    an incoming message recording/playback unit in said single telephone answering device for recording all incoming messages associated with all ring types identified by said ring type identification means and which are received on said single telephone line, and said incoming message recording/playback unit being responsive to a single interrogation for playing back all recorded incoming messages received on said single telephone line regardless of the ring type associated with the respective recorded incoming messages and regardless of which outgoing message a caller listened to.

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