Telephone with function for adding and removing regional numbers from telephone numbers to be dialed

• US 5,894,507 A
• Filed: 05/31/1996
• Issued: 04/13/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Hatamura, Junji
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F.
• Application Number:
  US08/655,809
• Time in Patent Office: 1,047 Days
• Field of Search: 379/96, 379/142, 379/67, 379/88, 379/89, 379/354-357, 379/93.17, 379/93.18, 379/93.23
• US Class Current: 379/93.23
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27485 Appending a prefix to or inserting a pause into a dialling sequence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6505 storing speech in digital form

Abstract

A telephone including a telephone number memory for storing telephone numbers; a present regional number unit for storing a present regional number of the telephone itself; a telephone number selection unit for selecting, from the telephone numbers stored in the telephone number memory, a telephone number indicated by a user; a regional number removal unit for removing a regional number portion from the telephone number selected by the telephone number selection unit when the regional number portion matches the present regional number stored in the present regional number memory; and a caller unit for performing calling processes using the telephone number after the telephone number is processed by the regional number removal unit.

Claims

1. A telephone comprising:

a telephone number memory for storing telephone numbers;

a present regional number memory for storing a present regional number of the telephone itself;

telephone number selection means for selecting, from the telephone numbers stored in the telephone number memory, a telephone number indicated by a user;

regional number removal means for automatically removing a regional number portion from the telephone number selected by the telephone number selection means each time the regional number portion matches the present regional number stored in the present regional number memory; and

caller means for performing calling processes using the telephone number after the telephone number is processed by the regional number removal means.

2. A telephone as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

external region call number addition means for adding, to the telephone number, an external region call number, indicating that the telephone number is from an external region, when the regional number portion of the telephone number does not match the present regional number stored in the present regional number memory; and

wherein

the caller means performs calling processes using one of the telephone number after the regional number removal means removes the regional number portion therefrom and the telephone number after the external region call number addition means adds the external region call number thereto.

3. A telephone as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

reception means for receiving transmissions transmitted over a telephone line;

telephone number extraction means for extracting a caller'"'"'s telephone number from a transmission with a ringing signal transmitted over the telephone line; and

caller'"'"'s telephone number registration means for registering, in the telephone number memory, the caller'"'"'s telephone number extracted by the telephone number extraction means.

4. A telephone as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

reception means for receiving transmissions transmitted over a telephone line;

telephone number extraction means for extracting the caller'"'"'s telephone number from a transmission with a ringing signal received by the reception means; and

caller'"'"'s telephone number registration means for registering, in the telephone number memory, the caller'"'"'s telephone number extracted by the telephone number extraction means.

5. A telephone as claimed in claim 4, further comprising:

display means for displaying telephone numbers registered in the telephone number memory by the caller'"'"'s telephone number registration means.

6. A telephone as claimed in claim 4, further comprising:

incoming message recording means for recording an incoming message transmitted in the transmission received by the reception means.

7. A telephone as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:

non-voice erasure means for erasing a non-voice portion from the incoming message recorded by the incoming message recording means records.

8. A telephone as claimed in claim 6, wherein the caller'"'"'s telephone number registration means registers the caller'"'"'s telephone number in correspondence with the incoming message.

9. A telephone as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

play means for reproducing the incoming message; and

display means for displaying the telephone number registered in correspondence with the incoming message being reproduced by the play means.

16. A telephone as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

reception means for receiving transmissions transmitted over a telephone line;

telephone number extraction means for extracting the caller'"'"'s telephone number from a transmission with a ringing signal received by the reception means;

caller'"'"'s telephone number registration means for registering, in the telephone number memory, the caller'"'"'s telephone number extracted by the telephone number extraction means; and

incoming message recording means for recording an incoming message transmitted in the transmission received by the reception means;

wherein the caller'"'"'s telephone number registration means registers the caller'"'"'s telephone number in correspondence with the incoming message.

18. A telephone as claimed in claim 1, further comprising reception means for receiving transmissions transmitted over a telephone line;

incoming message recording means for recording an incoming message transmitted in the transmission received by the reception means; and

non-voice erasure means for erasing a non-voice portion from the incoming message recorded by the incoming message recording means.

10. A telephone comprising:

a telephone number memory for storing telephone numbers;

a present regional number memory for storing a present regional number of the telephone itself;

input means for performing input processes to store a telephone number in the telephone number memory means;

regional number removal means for removing a regional number portion from the telephone number inputted via the input means when the regional number portion matches the present regional number; and

telephone number registration means for registering, in the telephone number memory, the telephone number after the telephone number is processed by the regional number removal means.

11. A telephone as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

telephone number selection means for selecting, from the telephone numbers stored in the telephone number memory, a selected telephone number corresponding to one indicated by a user; and

caller means for performing calling processes using the selected telephone number selected by the telephone number selection means.

12. A telephone as claimed in claim 11, further comprising:

external region call number addition means for adding, to the selected telephone number, an external region call number, indicating that the selected telephone number is from an external region, when a regional number portion of the telephone number does not match the present regional number stored in the present regional number memory; and

wherein

the caller means performs calling processes using one of the selected telephone number after the regional number removal means removes the regional number portion therefrom and the selected telephone number after the external region call number addition means adds the external region call number thereto.

13. A telephone as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

new regional number input means for inputting a new regional number for the telephone itself;

present regional number replacement means for searching all telephone numbers stored in the telephone number memory and replacing the present regional number to telephone numbers having had their regional number removed by the regional number removal means; and

new regional number removal means for searching all telephone numbers stored in the telephone number memory and removing a regional number portion from telephone numbers including the new regional number input by the new regional number input means.

14. A telephone as claimed in claim 13, wherein the input means extracts and inputs a caller'"'"'s telephone number transmitted with a ringing signal over a telephone line.

15. A telephone as claimed in claim 10, wherein the input means extracts and inputs a caller'"'"'s telephone number transmitted with a ringing signal over a telephone line.

17. A telephone as claimed in claim 10, further comprising reception means for receiving transmissions transmitted over a telephone line;

telephone number extraction means for extracting the caller'"'"'s telephone number from a transmission with a ringing signal received by the reception means;

caller'"'"'s telephone number registration means for registering, in the telephone number memory, the caller'"'"'s telephone number extracted by the telephone number extraction means; and

incoming message recording means for recording an incoming message transmitted in the transmission received by the receptions means;

wherein the caller'"'"'s telephone number registration means registers the caller'"'"'s telephone number in correspondence with the incoming message.

19. A telephone as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

reception means for receiving transmissions transmitted over a telephone line;

incoming message recording means for recording an incoming message transmitted in the transmission received by the reception means; and

non-voice erasure means for erasing a non-voice portion from the incoming message recorded by the incoming message recording means.