Telephone exchange system
First Claim
1. A telephone exchange system capable of accommodating a plurality of extension telephones, comprising:
- memory means for storing a voice message, and designating data which designates a time at which the voice message is played back; and
control means from controlling writing of a voice message in said memory means and reading of a voice message out of said memory means;
wherein said control means enables voice-outputting means of said plurality of extension telephones at the time designated by the designating data while reading the voice message out of said memory means and transmitting said voice message to the enabled voice-outputting means of the plurality of extension telephones.
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Abstract
A telephone exchange system accommodates a plurality of central office lines and a plurality of telephones and records a telephonic communication in a recording area shared by the plurality of telephones. When predetermined conditions are satisfied, the recording is played back or transferred. The shared recording area can be utilized effectively by erasing a recording after it has been transferred, and by detecting the presence of a voice during a telephonic communication and starting and stopping the recording operation based upon the results of detection. The time at which a recording has been made can be comprehended in the form of a voice when the recording is played back.
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43 Claims
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1. A telephone exchange system capable of accommodating a plurality of extension telephones, comprising:
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memory means for storing a voice message, and designating data which designates a time at which the voice message is played back; and control means from controlling writing of a voice message in said memory means and reading of a voice message out of said memory means; wherein said control means enables voice-outputting means of said plurality of extension telephones at the time designated by the designating data while reading the voice message out of said memory means and transmitting said voice message to the enabled voice-outputting means of the plurality of extension telephones. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A telephone exchange system accommodating a plurality of central office lines and a plurality of telephones and having recording means, which are shared by said plurality of telephones, for recording a voice during a telephonic communication, comprising:
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recording control means for controlling starting and stopping of recording of the voice on said recording means; managing means for managing the recording operation of said recording means; specific-information storing means for storing, based upon results of management performed by said managing means, at least information designating a recording area of said recording means, information specifying one or more of the plurality of telephones, recording starting-position information and recording end position information as information specifying a recording; and altering means for altering information, which has been stored in said specific-information storing means, in accordance with the recording operation of said recording means under the management performed by said managing means. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A telephone exchange system accommodating a plurality of central office lines and a plurality of telephones and having recording means, which are shared by said plurality of telephones, for recording a voice during a telephonic communication, comprising:
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recording sensing means for sensing whether there is a recording for a specific telephone in said recording means; display means for displaying, on said specific telephone, and based upon results of sensing performed by said recording sensing means, a message to the effect that there is a recording for this specific telephone; acknowledging means for acknowledging a connect request from said specific telephone while said recording means is recording the voice during the telephonic communication; and connection control means for connecting the telephone which has issued the connect request and the calling party when said acknowledging means acknowledges the connect request. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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13. A telephone exchange system comprising:
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first memory means in an exchange for storing a voice message; connecting means for connecting a plurality of telephones; and transfer means for transferring the voice message stored in said first memory means in the exchange to a first telephone of the plurality of telephones, wherein said transfer means transfers the voice message stored in said first memory means in the exchange to second memory means in a second telephone of the plurality of telephones, said second telephone being specified by the first telephone.
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14. A method of operating a communication system for communicating with a plurality of terminals comprising the steps of:
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storing a voice message into a memory, said voice message having a designated one of the plurality of terminals at which the voice message is played back, controlling said designated one of the plurality of terminals so that a user of said designated one of the plurality of terminals can notice that the voice message is being stored, and connecting a sender of the voice message who is being connected to the memory and is storing the voice message, to said designated one of the plurality of terminals according to a request received from said designated one of the plurality of terminals. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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16. A telephone exchange system comprising:
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memory means for storing a voice message; connecting means for connecting a selected one of a plurality of extensions and said memory means to a communication partner via an external line; and control means for controlling said connecting means so as to connect a designated one of the plurality of extensions at which the voice message which is being stored should be played back and the communication partner according to a request of said designated one of the plurality of extensions in a state in which the communication partner is storing the voice message into said memory means when said memory means and the communication partner are connected by said connecting means. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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19. A telephone exchange system capable of accommodating a plurality of extension telephones, comprising:
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memory means for storing a voice message; and control means for controlling writing of a voice message in said memory means and reading of a voice message out of said memory means, wherein said control means writes specifying data into a management table in a form correlated with an address of said memory means in which said voice message is stored, said specifying data being used to specify an extension telephone to which said voice message is to be transferred, and said control means rewrites said specifying data, which has been written in management table in a form correlated with the address, upon an instruction from said specified extension telephone, reads said voice message out of said memory means in accordance with the address, and transmits said voice message to an extension telephone specified by said rewritten specifying data. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A telephone exchange method for operating a plurality of telephones, comprising the step of:
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storing a voice message in a memory means; writing specifying data for specifying a telephone, to which said voice message is to be transferred, into a management table in a form correlated with an address of said memory means in which said voice message is stored; and rewriting said specifying data written in said management table in a form correlated with the address, upon an instruction from said specified telephone, reading said voice message out of said memory means in accordance with the address, and transmitting said voice message to a telephone specified by said rewritten specifying data.
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35. A voice message transfer method for transferring messages, comprising the steps of:
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making a management table in which a first destination and a message, included in messages, to be transmitted to a first destination are specified; and remaking the management table, upon an instruction from the first destination, such that a second destination is specified for transferring the message. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37)
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38. A message transfer method for transferring messages, comprising the steps of:
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making management data for specifying a first destination and a message included in messages, to be transmitted to the first destination; and remaking the management data, upon an instruction from the first destination, such that a second destination is specified for transferring the message. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40)
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41. A message transfer method for transferring messages, comprising the steps of:
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making a management table in which a first destination and a message, included in messages, to be transmitted to the first destination are specified; transferring the message to the first destination based on the management table made in said making step; remaking the management table, upon an instruction from the first destination, such that a second destination is specified for transferring the message; and transferring the message to the second destination based on the management table remade in said remaking step. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43)
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Specification