CA2098356A1 - Calling party identifying apparatus - Google Patents
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Abstract
CALLING PARTY IDENTIFYING APPARATUS
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A calling party identifying apparatus electrically connected to an exchange system which can provide the calling number and the registered name of the phone set or the like (such as a fax machine) includes a receiver, a microprocessor, a memory, an LCD, a key pad, a plurality of lights, and a speaker. The memory has a database installed therein including a plurality of potential callers' information each of which includes a specific caller's name, the calling number of the caller, the preference degree thereof, and the preferred hours for the caller to call. The identification apparatus is allowed to display the caller's name on the LCD instead of displaying the registered name of the calling device. When any call comes in, the identification apparatus will check from the database and display the caller's name, the calling number thereof, and the preference degree thereof. In the mean time, the lights and the speaker will visually and audibly illustrate the preference degree of the call by a preset light pattern and audible pattern, thus helping the user to determine whether to receive the call or not. If the call is not coming in during the preferred hours, the call is automatically cut off by the microprocessor. The key pad allows the user to make a call by dialing one or more characters instead of the whole number.
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A calling party identifying apparatus electrically connected to an exchange system which can provide the calling number and the registered name of the phone set or the like (such as a fax machine) includes a receiver, a microprocessor, a memory, an LCD, a key pad, a plurality of lights, and a speaker. The memory has a database installed therein including a plurality of potential callers' information each of which includes a specific caller's name, the calling number of the caller, the preference degree thereof, and the preferred hours for the caller to call. The identification apparatus is allowed to display the caller's name on the LCD instead of displaying the registered name of the calling device. When any call comes in, the identification apparatus will check from the database and display the caller's name, the calling number thereof, and the preference degree thereof. In the mean time, the lights and the speaker will visually and audibly illustrate the preference degree of the call by a preset light pattern and audible pattern, thus helping the user to determine whether to receive the call or not. If the call is not coming in during the preferred hours, the call is automatically cut off by the microprocessor. The key pad allows the user to make a call by dialing one or more characters instead of the whole number.
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3 1. Field of the Invention 4 This invention relates to a calling party identi-fying apparatus (Caller ID), especially for one which 6 identifies the calling party and displays the related 7 information including the caller's name (not 8 necessarily the registered name for the number), the 9 telephone number of the caller, and the preference degree of the caller, thus screening the call before ll the user receives the call. Mcreover, the calling 12 party identifying apparatus can cut off any call 13 ringing if the latter is not coming in during 14 preferred hours or the corresponding caller to call.
The preferred hours ~or different callers have been 16 already preset in a memory of the calling party 17 identifying apparatus. The calling party identification 18 apparatus is allowed to be installed on any~telephone 19 set or any telecommunication device linked to a telephone line for screening the incoming information 21 therefrom and preventing any unwelcome or strange 22 information to come in. ~The calling party 23 identifiication apparatus also allows a user to make a 24 call merely by dialing one or more characters instead of dialing the whole number.
26 2~ Description of the Prior Art 27 In the conventional telephone service, a called 28 party is informed of calling party by a sequence of -2~83~6 1 ringing sounds from a telephone. The called party has to 2 pick up the phone and listen to the calling party to 3 identify the calling party. However, the called party 4 might not want to talk with the calling party if he knows first t'who" is calling. It is known that some 6 exchange systems of the telephone company can send 7 identification information including the telephone 8 number of the calling party to any called party.
9 However, merely utilizing the exchange system, the called party can only obtain the telephone number and 11 might not be able to remind him/her who is actually 12 calling. Some other exchange system can provide identi~
13 fication information including the telephone number and 14 the name of the person registered for that number.
Therefore, with this exchange system, the called party 16 can obtain the calling number and the registered name 17 for that number when the call is coming in. However, 18 the calling party is not necessarily the person regis-19 tered for that number. The calling party may be merely a family member or a company staff of the registered 21 person. Therefore, it is requisite to provide a calling 22 party identifying apparatus capable of receiving the 23 identification information and informing the called 24 party the exact caller's name, the telephone number of the caller, and the preference degree of the caller, 26 thus the called party can respond to receive or not 27 receive the phone call. Moreover, the calling party 28 identification apparatus can disable the ringing of the .... : .. ; . : . : , - . ..; - . ~.
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4 It is an object of the present invention to 5 provide a calling party identifying apparatus 6 comprising a microprocessor, an LCD display, a first 7 preference indicating means, a second preference 8 indicating means, a key pad, a memory, a ringing 9 detector, a code receiver, and a dual tone multifre-quency (DTMF) generator. The memory is programmably 11 stored with personal information of different potential 12 calling parties. Each personal information includes a 13 specific person name, the telephone number thereof, the 14 preference degree of the person, and the preferred hours for the person to call. The calling party identi-16 fying apparatus can acquire the identification informa-17 tion of the calling party such as the telephone number, 18 from the telephone lines and display the caller's 19 name, the telephone number of the caller, and the preference degree of the caller, thereby helping the 21 called party to determine whether to receive the call 22 or not.
23 It is another object of the present invention to 24 provide a calling party identifying apparatus which can respond to any call and cut off the ringing auto-26 matically if the call is made out of the preferred 27 hours for the caller to call.
28 It is another object of the present invention to 2~98356 1 provide a calling party identifying apparatus which 2 allows the user to make a phone call ~y dialing one or 3 more characters representing a name of a person or a 4 company instead of dialing the whole telephone number.
It is another object of the present invention to 6 provide a calling party identifying apparatus which can 7 record all the incoming telephone number and the relat-8 ed calling times when the user is out and allow the 9 user to review all the telephone information including the calling time, the caller's name, the telephone 11 number, and the preference degree of the caller.
12 It is still another object of the present 13 invention to provide a calling party identifying 14 apparatus which is operable to call a pager right after an important call comes in but is not answered by any 16 person, so the intended recipient would not miss any 17 important call.
18 These and additional objects, if not set forth 19 specifically herein, will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art from the detailed description pro-21 vided hereunder, with appropriate reference to the 22 accompanying drawings.
23 P~RT~F D:ESCRIp~IQN Ql~ TEIE I~AWINGS
24 Fig. 1 is a block diagram in accordance with the present invention; and 26 Fig. 2 is a circuit diagram of the present 27 invention.
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2 Now referring to the drawings and initially to 3 Fig. 1, a calling party identifying apparatus in 4 accordance with the present invention is connected in parallel with a pair of external telephone lines 11 and 6 a telephone set 12 (or any other telecommunication 7 device such as a fax machine, an E mail or the like) 8 for picking up the identification information of a 9 calling party transmitted by the telephone lines 11.
The additional presence of the identifying apparatus 11 does not affect the standard function of the telephone 12 set 12. The identifying apparatus comprises a 13 microprocessor 24, an LCD display 25, a first 14 preference indicating means 26, a second preference indicating means 27, a key pad 28, a memory 29, a 16 ringing detector 22, a code receiver 21, and a dual 17 tone multifrequency generator 23. The memory is a 18 programmable memory such as an EEPROM. The code 19 receiver 21 and the ringing detector 22 have their input terminals respectively connected to the external 21 telephone lines 11 in parallel for detecting the 22 transmitted signal from the lines 11 and further 23 forward the detected signal to the microprocessor 24.
24 The dual tone multifrequency generator 23 is actuated by the microprocessor 24, generating dual tone dialing 26 signal and feeding the dialing signal to the external 27 lines 11 for the owner to dial.
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1 between the external lines 11 and the microprocessor 24 2 for receiving the calling party information, converting 3 the information to digital signal and feeding the 4 digital signal to the microprocessor 24. 'rhe LCD 25 is electrically connected to the microprocessor 24 for 6 illustrating the related information such as the 7 telephone number and the name of the calling party or 8 even more as will be described in greater detail. The 9 memory 29 is allowed to be programmahly stored with different personal information each of which including 11 a personal name, the preference degree of the person, 12 the preferred hours for the person to call, and the t3 telephone number of the person. ~he microprocessor 24 14 responds to the telephone number of the calling party and searches the memory 29 to obtain the related 16 personal information about the calling party. The first 17 indicating means 26 includes a plurality of lights each 18 of which has a color for representing a specific one of 19 the preference degrees. The second preference indicating means 27 including a transistor and a 21 speaker for generating different sound patterns to 22 respectively represent different preference degrees for 23 different calling paxties.
24 ~he memory 29 has a database installed therein including a plurality of potential callers' i~formation 26 each of which includes a specific caller's name, the 27 calling number of the caller, the preference degree 28 thereof, and the preferred hours for the caller to 3 ~ ~ ~
1 call. The identification information of different 2 calling parties is au-tomatically acquired from the 3 external lines 11 and stored in the memory 29.
4 Basically the identification information is the telephone number of the calling party. For some 6 exchange systems, the identification information 7 includes the telephone number and the registered 8 person~s name thereof. The preference degree and the 9 preferred hours are set by the user. The telephone numbers of the potential calling parties together with 11 the related names, the preference degree and the 12 preferred hours are inputted by the user from the key 13 pad 28 and are used to compare with the identification 14 information of any dynamic calling party, thus when a telephone number of a calling party is matched with any 16 one of the telephone numbers in the memory 29, the 17 microprocessor 24 will actuate the LCD 25 to display 18 the related information of the calling party including 19 the telephone number, the name, and the preference degree. Actually, the microprocessor 24 can also cut 21 off the ringing of the telephone, if the present call 22 is not received during the preferred hours for the -23 caller t!o call. Since the detailed circuit for cutting 24 off the ringing is well known, it is not described herein. Howeverl if none of the telephone numbers of 26 the potential calling parties matches with the 27 telephone number of the calling party, the telephone 28 number of the calling party is automatically recorded 2098~
1 in the memory 29, thus the calling party is converted to 2 be one of the potential calling parties. However, for 3 those exchange system which can send out the 4 identification information including the telephone 5 number and the registered person's name, t;he registered 6 name and the telephone number will be recorded in the 7 memory 29 and will be displayed on the LCD 25 if they 8 are not originally stored in the memory 29. The user 9 can add the relating name, the preference degree, and the preferred hours of the calling party into the 11 memory 29 together with the telephone number thereof 12 constituting a personal database ~or the calling party.
13 It is noted that the called party can variably 14 predetermine a priority to be given to any entirely new calling party to decide whether or not to receive such 16 calls. The telephone numbers of the potential calling 17 parties can also be used for automatic dialing by 18 manually operating the key pad 28 with at least one 19 representative character of a` personis name which is already stored in the memory 29 with his corresponding 21 telephone number, thus permitting the user to depress 22 at least a character instead of dialing the whole 23 telephone number. The character(s) is/are not limited 24 to the initial of the caller's name but whatever which can easily remind the user.
26 When in operation, the external lines 11 transmit 27 the identification information of the calling party, 28 the code receiver 21 receives the telephone number .: . . : .. : : ~ , . : :,, i ` ` 2~83~
1 contained in the identification information and forwards 2 the telephone number to the microprocessor 24. The 3 microprocessor 24 responds to the received telephone 4 number and searches the memory 29 for the same number and actuates the LCD 25 to show the caller's name and 6 the corresponding data base including the telephone 7 ' number and the preference degree of the caller. In 8 the mean time, the first preference indicating means 26 9 and the second preference indicating means 27 respectively illustrate the preference degree with a 11 light pattern and a sound pattern. As mentioned 12 previously, if the caller does not call during 13 preferred hours for him to call, the ringing is 14 automatically cut off.
Referring to Fig. 2, the detailed circuit of the 16 present invention comprises a first connector 11' for 17 connecting with the external telephone lines 11, a 18 second connector 12' for connecting with the telephone 19 set 12. The ringing detector 22 is composed of a photo~
coupler. The code receiver 21 and the dual tone 21 multi~requency generator 23 are arranged at the middle 22 portion of the figure. The key pad 28 comprising a 23 plurality of key switches is arranged at the top left 24 side of the figure. The microprocessor 24, the first preference indicating means 26, the second preference : -: -26 indicating means 27J the LCD 25, and the memory 29 are 27 arranged at the right side of the figure. The first -2~ preference indicating means 26 includes at least two 209~3~
1 LEDs, one is green light for illustrating the call is 2 important and another is red light for illustrating the 3 call is not important. Of course, the number of LEDs is 4 not limited to two and the light pattern for important levels is not limited to the one mentioned. A power 6 supply of the whole circuit is arranged at the bottom 7 left side of the figure. Since the power supply is well 8 known, it is not described in detail herein. The 9 calling party identifying apparatus is allowed to be installed inside or outside of a telephone set.
11 The calling party identification apparatus as 12 mentioned above is also allowed to be installed with 13 any telecommunication device such as a fax machine, a 14 computer or the like which is linked to a telephone line for screening the incoming information therefrom 16 and automatically preventing any unwelcome or strange 17 information to come in. Normally, when there is no 18 call coming in, the identification apparatus will 19 function like a clock with the LCD 25 thereof will show the time thereon. It is noted th t a timer (not shown) 21 is included in the identifying apparatus for time 22 counting. It is noted that the identifying apparatus 23 can also record all the incoming telephone number and 24 the related calling time when the user is out and allow the user to review all the telephone information 26 including the calling time, the caller~s name, the 27 telephone number, and the preference degree of the 28 caller. The light pattern of the identifylng apparatus , 201~2~35~
1 remains until another phone call comes in and changes 2 the previous pattern for the previous call. For exam-3 ple, if the green light indicates an important call and 4 the red light indicates an unimportant call, the green and red lights both remain ON if important call and 6 unimportant call come in during a time period when the 7 user is out. When the user comes in and s~ees the green 8 light and the red light both ON, he will notice that at 9 least one important call came in when he was out.
Therefore, he will review the recorded information and 11 find out the important call. If only the red light 12 remains ON, then the user can ignore the recorded 13 inormation, thus saving his time. Since the recorded 14 information and the review of the information are fulfilled by software which is very user-dependent and 16 well known thus it is not described in detail herein.
17 The identifying apparatus is also allowed to be loaded 18 with an extra software subroutine in the m1croprocessor 19 24 for responding to ~ not-answered important call ~i.e., a call having high preference degree not being 21 answered by the user or any other persons) by 22 automatically calling a pager carried by the user. The 23 pager will respond to the call from the identifying 24 apparatus and illustrate the caller' 5 information including the name, the telephone number on the pager.
26 Since the exkra software subroutine is well known, it 27 is not described herein.
28 While the present invention has been explained in 209~3~6 1 rela~ion to its preferred embodiment, it is to b~
2 understood that various modifications thereof will be 3 apparent to those skilled in the art upon reading this 4 specification. Therefore, it is to be understood that the invention disclosed herein is intended to cover all 6 such modifications as fall within the scope of the 7 ' appended claims.
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The preferred hours ~or different callers have been 16 already preset in a memory of the calling party 17 identifying apparatus. The calling party identification 18 apparatus is allowed to be installed on any~telephone 19 set or any telecommunication device linked to a telephone line for screening the incoming information 21 therefrom and preventing any unwelcome or strange 22 information to come in. ~The calling party 23 identifiication apparatus also allows a user to make a 24 call merely by dialing one or more characters instead of dialing the whole number.
26 2~ Description of the Prior Art 27 In the conventional telephone service, a called 28 party is informed of calling party by a sequence of -2~83~6 1 ringing sounds from a telephone. The called party has to 2 pick up the phone and listen to the calling party to 3 identify the calling party. However, the called party 4 might not want to talk with the calling party if he knows first t'who" is calling. It is known that some 6 exchange systems of the telephone company can send 7 identification information including the telephone 8 number of the calling party to any called party.
9 However, merely utilizing the exchange system, the called party can only obtain the telephone number and 11 might not be able to remind him/her who is actually 12 calling. Some other exchange system can provide identi~
13 fication information including the telephone number and 14 the name of the person registered for that number.
Therefore, with this exchange system, the called party 16 can obtain the calling number and the registered name 17 for that number when the call is coming in. However, 18 the calling party is not necessarily the person regis-19 tered for that number. The calling party may be merely a family member or a company staff of the registered 21 person. Therefore, it is requisite to provide a calling 22 party identifying apparatus capable of receiving the 23 identification information and informing the called 24 party the exact caller's name, the telephone number of the caller, and the preference degree of the caller, 26 thus the called party can respond to receive or not 27 receive the phone call. Moreover, the calling party 28 identification apparatus can disable the ringing of the .... : .. ; . : . : , - . ..; - . ~.
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4 It is an object of the present invention to 5 provide a calling party identifying apparatus 6 comprising a microprocessor, an LCD display, a first 7 preference indicating means, a second preference 8 indicating means, a key pad, a memory, a ringing 9 detector, a code receiver, and a dual tone multifre-quency (DTMF) generator. The memory is programmably 11 stored with personal information of different potential 12 calling parties. Each personal information includes a 13 specific person name, the telephone number thereof, the 14 preference degree of the person, and the preferred hours for the person to call. The calling party identi-16 fying apparatus can acquire the identification informa-17 tion of the calling party such as the telephone number, 18 from the telephone lines and display the caller's 19 name, the telephone number of the caller, and the preference degree of the caller, thereby helping the 21 called party to determine whether to receive the call 22 or not.
23 It is another object of the present invention to 24 provide a calling party identifying apparatus which can respond to any call and cut off the ringing auto-26 matically if the call is made out of the preferred 27 hours for the caller to call.
28 It is another object of the present invention to 2~98356 1 provide a calling party identifying apparatus which 2 allows the user to make a phone call ~y dialing one or 3 more characters representing a name of a person or a 4 company instead of dialing the whole telephone number.
It is another object of the present invention to 6 provide a calling party identifying apparatus which can 7 record all the incoming telephone number and the relat-8 ed calling times when the user is out and allow the 9 user to review all the telephone information including the calling time, the caller's name, the telephone 11 number, and the preference degree of the caller.
12 It is still another object of the present 13 invention to provide a calling party identifying 14 apparatus which is operable to call a pager right after an important call comes in but is not answered by any 16 person, so the intended recipient would not miss any 17 important call.
18 These and additional objects, if not set forth 19 specifically herein, will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art from the detailed description pro-21 vided hereunder, with appropriate reference to the 22 accompanying drawings.
23 P~RT~F D:ESCRIp~IQN Ql~ TEIE I~AWINGS
24 Fig. 1 is a block diagram in accordance with the present invention; and 26 Fig. 2 is a circuit diagram of the present 27 invention.
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2 Now referring to the drawings and initially to 3 Fig. 1, a calling party identifying apparatus in 4 accordance with the present invention is connected in parallel with a pair of external telephone lines 11 and 6 a telephone set 12 (or any other telecommunication 7 device such as a fax machine, an E mail or the like) 8 for picking up the identification information of a 9 calling party transmitted by the telephone lines 11.
The additional presence of the identifying apparatus 11 does not affect the standard function of the telephone 12 set 12. The identifying apparatus comprises a 13 microprocessor 24, an LCD display 25, a first 14 preference indicating means 26, a second preference indicating means 27, a key pad 28, a memory 29, a 16 ringing detector 22, a code receiver 21, and a dual 17 tone multifrequency generator 23. The memory is a 18 programmable memory such as an EEPROM. The code 19 receiver 21 and the ringing detector 22 have their input terminals respectively connected to the external 21 telephone lines 11 in parallel for detecting the 22 transmitted signal from the lines 11 and further 23 forward the detected signal to the microprocessor 24.
24 The dual tone multifrequency generator 23 is actuated by the microprocessor 24, generating dual tone dialing 26 signal and feeding the dialing signal to the external 27 lines 11 for the owner to dial.
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1 between the external lines 11 and the microprocessor 24 2 for receiving the calling party information, converting 3 the information to digital signal and feeding the 4 digital signal to the microprocessor 24. 'rhe LCD 25 is electrically connected to the microprocessor 24 for 6 illustrating the related information such as the 7 telephone number and the name of the calling party or 8 even more as will be described in greater detail. The 9 memory 29 is allowed to be programmahly stored with different personal information each of which including 11 a personal name, the preference degree of the person, 12 the preferred hours for the person to call, and the t3 telephone number of the person. ~he microprocessor 24 14 responds to the telephone number of the calling party and searches the memory 29 to obtain the related 16 personal information about the calling party. The first 17 indicating means 26 includes a plurality of lights each 18 of which has a color for representing a specific one of 19 the preference degrees. The second preference indicating means 27 including a transistor and a 21 speaker for generating different sound patterns to 22 respectively represent different preference degrees for 23 different calling paxties.
24 ~he memory 29 has a database installed therein including a plurality of potential callers' i~formation 26 each of which includes a specific caller's name, the 27 calling number of the caller, the preference degree 28 thereof, and the preferred hours for the caller to 3 ~ ~ ~
1 call. The identification information of different 2 calling parties is au-tomatically acquired from the 3 external lines 11 and stored in the memory 29.
4 Basically the identification information is the telephone number of the calling party. For some 6 exchange systems, the identification information 7 includes the telephone number and the registered 8 person~s name thereof. The preference degree and the 9 preferred hours are set by the user. The telephone numbers of the potential calling parties together with 11 the related names, the preference degree and the 12 preferred hours are inputted by the user from the key 13 pad 28 and are used to compare with the identification 14 information of any dynamic calling party, thus when a telephone number of a calling party is matched with any 16 one of the telephone numbers in the memory 29, the 17 microprocessor 24 will actuate the LCD 25 to display 18 the related information of the calling party including 19 the telephone number, the name, and the preference degree. Actually, the microprocessor 24 can also cut 21 off the ringing of the telephone, if the present call 22 is not received during the preferred hours for the -23 caller t!o call. Since the detailed circuit for cutting 24 off the ringing is well known, it is not described herein. Howeverl if none of the telephone numbers of 26 the potential calling parties matches with the 27 telephone number of the calling party, the telephone 28 number of the calling party is automatically recorded 2098~
1 in the memory 29, thus the calling party is converted to 2 be one of the potential calling parties. However, for 3 those exchange system which can send out the 4 identification information including the telephone 5 number and the registered person's name, t;he registered 6 name and the telephone number will be recorded in the 7 memory 29 and will be displayed on the LCD 25 if they 8 are not originally stored in the memory 29. The user 9 can add the relating name, the preference degree, and the preferred hours of the calling party into the 11 memory 29 together with the telephone number thereof 12 constituting a personal database ~or the calling party.
13 It is noted that the called party can variably 14 predetermine a priority to be given to any entirely new calling party to decide whether or not to receive such 16 calls. The telephone numbers of the potential calling 17 parties can also be used for automatic dialing by 18 manually operating the key pad 28 with at least one 19 representative character of a` personis name which is already stored in the memory 29 with his corresponding 21 telephone number, thus permitting the user to depress 22 at least a character instead of dialing the whole 23 telephone number. The character(s) is/are not limited 24 to the initial of the caller's name but whatever which can easily remind the user.
26 When in operation, the external lines 11 transmit 27 the identification information of the calling party, 28 the code receiver 21 receives the telephone number .: . . : .. : : ~ , . : :,, i ` ` 2~83~
1 contained in the identification information and forwards 2 the telephone number to the microprocessor 24. The 3 microprocessor 24 responds to the received telephone 4 number and searches the memory 29 for the same number and actuates the LCD 25 to show the caller's name and 6 the corresponding data base including the telephone 7 ' number and the preference degree of the caller. In 8 the mean time, the first preference indicating means 26 9 and the second preference indicating means 27 respectively illustrate the preference degree with a 11 light pattern and a sound pattern. As mentioned 12 previously, if the caller does not call during 13 preferred hours for him to call, the ringing is 14 automatically cut off.
Referring to Fig. 2, the detailed circuit of the 16 present invention comprises a first connector 11' for 17 connecting with the external telephone lines 11, a 18 second connector 12' for connecting with the telephone 19 set 12. The ringing detector 22 is composed of a photo~
coupler. The code receiver 21 and the dual tone 21 multi~requency generator 23 are arranged at the middle 22 portion of the figure. The key pad 28 comprising a 23 plurality of key switches is arranged at the top left 24 side of the figure. The microprocessor 24, the first preference indicating means 26, the second preference : -: -26 indicating means 27J the LCD 25, and the memory 29 are 27 arranged at the right side of the figure. The first -2~ preference indicating means 26 includes at least two 209~3~
1 LEDs, one is green light for illustrating the call is 2 important and another is red light for illustrating the 3 call is not important. Of course, the number of LEDs is 4 not limited to two and the light pattern for important levels is not limited to the one mentioned. A power 6 supply of the whole circuit is arranged at the bottom 7 left side of the figure. Since the power supply is well 8 known, it is not described in detail herein. The 9 calling party identifying apparatus is allowed to be installed inside or outside of a telephone set.
11 The calling party identification apparatus as 12 mentioned above is also allowed to be installed with 13 any telecommunication device such as a fax machine, a 14 computer or the like which is linked to a telephone line for screening the incoming information therefrom 16 and automatically preventing any unwelcome or strange 17 information to come in. Normally, when there is no 18 call coming in, the identification apparatus will 19 function like a clock with the LCD 25 thereof will show the time thereon. It is noted th t a timer (not shown) 21 is included in the identifying apparatus for time 22 counting. It is noted that the identifying apparatus 23 can also record all the incoming telephone number and 24 the related calling time when the user is out and allow the user to review all the telephone information 26 including the calling time, the caller~s name, the 27 telephone number, and the preference degree of the 28 caller. The light pattern of the identifylng apparatus , 201~2~35~
1 remains until another phone call comes in and changes 2 the previous pattern for the previous call. For exam-3 ple, if the green light indicates an important call and 4 the red light indicates an unimportant call, the green and red lights both remain ON if important call and 6 unimportant call come in during a time period when the 7 user is out. When the user comes in and s~ees the green 8 light and the red light both ON, he will notice that at 9 least one important call came in when he was out.
Therefore, he will review the recorded information and 11 find out the important call. If only the red light 12 remains ON, then the user can ignore the recorded 13 inormation, thus saving his time. Since the recorded 14 information and the review of the information are fulfilled by software which is very user-dependent and 16 well known thus it is not described in detail herein.
17 The identifying apparatus is also allowed to be loaded 18 with an extra software subroutine in the m1croprocessor 19 24 for responding to ~ not-answered important call ~i.e., a call having high preference degree not being 21 answered by the user or any other persons) by 22 automatically calling a pager carried by the user. The 23 pager will respond to the call from the identifying 24 apparatus and illustrate the caller' 5 information including the name, the telephone number on the pager.
26 Since the exkra software subroutine is well known, it 27 is not described herein.
28 While the present invention has been explained in 209~3~6 1 rela~ion to its preferred embodiment, it is to b~
2 understood that various modifications thereof will be 3 apparent to those skilled in the art upon reading this 4 specification. Therefore, it is to be understood that the invention disclosed herein is intended to cover all 6 such modifications as fall within the scope of the 7 ' appended claims.
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Claims (8)
1. A calling party identifying apparatus comprising a ringing detector (22) electrically connected to a pair of external telephone lines (11) for detecting a call from a calling party;
a code receiver (21) electrically connected to said pair of external telephone lines (11) for detecting identification information from said calling party via said external telephone lines (11);
a microprocessor (24) electrically connected to said ringing detector (22) and said code receiver (21) for responding to the detection of the calling and receiving the identification information of the calling party temporarily;
a memory (29) being electrically connected to said microprocessor (23) and being programmably stored with different personal information each of which includes a personal name, the preference degree of the person, the preferred hours for the person to call, and the telephone number of the person;
a key pad (28) including a plurality of key switches being electrically connected to said microprocessor (24) for inputting the personal information of a potential calling party; and an LCD (25) electrically connected to said microprocessor (24) for displaying the related personal information of the calling party after the microprocessor (24) receives the identification information of a calling party;
whereby said microprocessor (24) responds to the reception of said identification information of said calling party and searches for an equivalent telephone number from said memory (29) and displays the located personal information including the personal name, the preference degree of the person, and the telephone number of the person on said LCD (25) when the telephone number of the calling party is present in said memory (29), otherwise it merely displays the telephone number on said LCD (25).
a code receiver (21) electrically connected to said pair of external telephone lines (11) for detecting identification information from said calling party via said external telephone lines (11);
a microprocessor (24) electrically connected to said ringing detector (22) and said code receiver (21) for responding to the detection of the calling and receiving the identification information of the calling party temporarily;
a memory (29) being electrically connected to said microprocessor (23) and being programmably stored with different personal information each of which includes a personal name, the preference degree of the person, the preferred hours for the person to call, and the telephone number of the person;
a key pad (28) including a plurality of key switches being electrically connected to said microprocessor (24) for inputting the personal information of a potential calling party; and an LCD (25) electrically connected to said microprocessor (24) for displaying the related personal information of the calling party after the microprocessor (24) receives the identification information of a calling party;
whereby said microprocessor (24) responds to the reception of said identification information of said calling party and searches for an equivalent telephone number from said memory (29) and displays the located personal information including the personal name, the preference degree of the person, and the telephone number of the person on said LCD (25) when the telephone number of the calling party is present in said memory (29), otherwise it merely displays the telephone number on said LCD (25).
2. A calling party identifying apparatus as claimed in claim 1 further comprises a first preference indicating means (26) including a plurality of lights each of which is used to represent one of the preference degrees.
3. A calling party identifying apparatus as claimed in claim 1 further comprises a second preference indicating means (27) including a transistor and a speaker for responding to the preference degree and emitting a corresponding sound pattern to illustrate the preference degree of the call.
4. A calling party identifying apparatus as claimed in claim 1 further comprises a dual tone multifrequency generator (23) electrically connected between the external lines (11) and the microprocessor (24) for sending out multifrequency signals representing a corresponding character for a corresponding telephone number already stored in said memory (29), therefore a user can dial. out by said character instead of said number.
5. A calling party identifying apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said ringing detector (22) is a photo-coupler.
6. A calling party identifying apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory (29) is a programmable memory.
7. A calling party identifying apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said microprocessor (24) is allowed to cut off the ringing of a phone call, if said call is received out of the preferred hours.
8. A calling party identifying apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said microprocessor (24) is operable to call a pager right after a high preference degree call is not answered by any person so the intended recipient would not miss any high preference degree call.
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