Paging system for electronic telephone apparatus

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a paging method and apparatus, for a switching system, capable of responding to a plurality of incoming telephone calls.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a paging apparatus, for a switching system, which is capable of operating easily and minimizing the chance of a mistake by an operator by displaying information used in the paging operation.
According to the present invention, and in order to realize the above objects, a switching system is provided which includes an exchange with an exchanging switch coupled to a plurality of telephone lines, a plurality of telephone sets coupled to the exchange and an attendant console coupled to the exchange.
The switching system is provided with a first memory adapted to store data corresponding to a plurality of incoming telephone calls, a second memory for storing data corresponding to a plurality of answer codes, a display on the attendant console, a loud-speaker and control circuitry.
The incoming telephone call data corresponds to the data of at least one of the answer codes.
The control circuitry controls the display to display the answer code data corresponding to the incoming telephone call when it receives a page request from the attendant console.
Then the control circuitry automatically controls the connection between the incoming telephone call and the telephone set with reference to the stored incoming telephone call data and the stored answer code data when the answer code data is dialed at the telephone set after a voice message, including the displayed answer code data, is generated from the loud-speaker by an operator of the attendant console.
Thus, the operator is permitted to operate the attendant console to carry out the paging operations for a plurality of incoming telephone calls.