| | Telephone answering machine in paging systems with automatic number identification based message operations - Patent ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Telephone dialer 28 dials telephone numbers recognized by the telephone network 2 in a manner well known to those familiar with the art, thus allowing the telephone answering device to place outgoing calls. |
 | | Telephone dialer 28 has three output signals to the controller which detects, after the telephone number was dialed, if the telephone is BUSY, if the telephone is ANSWERED, or if the telephone is not answered within a predetermined time, NO ANSWER signal. |
 | | For example, if the phone number 555-2323 of step 225 corresponds to paging receiver 420's telephone number assigned by the paging terminal, the telephone call is received and answered, a connection is made through two-line interface to the telephone network 405 between the message source 400 and paging terminal 415. |
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