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Telephone calling party announcement system and method
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Inventors: Guercio, David J.; Greenwell, Paul E.; Borland, David J.;
Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Munich, DE)
Primary Examiner: Hoosain; Allan
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Presented is a telephone calling party announcement system which stores telephone numbers and associated voice messages provided by a user. When an incoming telephone call occurs, and a telephone number of a calling party matches a stored telephone number, an associated stored voice message is played back. Calling party information is provided by Caller ID information transmitted between a first and a second ring signal. If a stored telephone number matches the telephone number portion of the Caller ID information, a stored voice message associated with the telephone number is played back between (or in place of) subsequent ring signals. The stored voice message is typically the name of the calling party, and in this case the name of the calling party is announced between ring signals. A first embodiment includes a voice message unit which receives, stores, and plays back voice messages provided by the user. A caller ID decoder decodes the Caller ID information and provides the decoded Caller ID information to a control unit. The control unit compares the telephone number portion of the decoded Caller ID information to telephone numbers stored in a control memory unit. If a match is found, the control unit asserts a playback control signal which causes the voice message unit to play back an associated stored voice message. In a second embodiment, a digital signal processor (DSP) performs the many of the functions of the voice message unit and the caller ID decoder of the first embodiment. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention comprises a telephone calling party announcement system which stores telephone numbers and associated voice messages.
A series of ring signals alerts a telephone subscriber to an incoming telephone call.
Encoded calling party information (i.
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, Caller ID information) transmitted between a first ring signal and a second ring signal is decoded, and the telephone number portion of the decoded Caller ID information is compared to the stored telephone numbers.
If the telephone number portion of the Caller ID information matches a stored telephone number, a stored voice message associated with the telephone number is played back between or instead of subsequent ring signals.
The stored voice message is typically the name of the calling party.
In this case the name of the calling party is announced between subsequent ring signals, and before a user would normally answer a ringing telephone.
Such an audible announcement would be particularly helpful when it is not convenient to walk to the vicinity of a ringing telephone to read a Caller ID display, or when the user is visually impaired.
It is noted that the stored voice message also may also be played back in place of subsequent ring signals.
Proper operation of the telephone calling party announcement system requires that one or more telephone numbers and associated voice messages be provided by the user and stored within the telephone calling party announcement system.
A telephone number is provided first, followed by the recording of an associated voice message.
In a first embodiment, a control unit receives a telephone number.
The telephone number may be the telephone number portion of stored Caller ID information from the last incoming telephone call, or may be entered by the user on a keypad located on a control panel.
A voice message unit then receives and stores an associated voice message provided by the user.
When storing the voice message, the voice message unit produces a message number associated with the stored voice message, and provides the message number to the control unit
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