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Category:Spanish economic historiansThere has been conventionally known an information communication system in which an automatic answering machine is connected to a telephone network in the form of a public switching network so as to provide an automatic answering service. This kind of automatic answering machine comprises a function for providing the conventional service to the telephone, and a function for providing a service for use in the automatic answering machine.
The above-mentioned automatic answering machine receives the call from a caller, plays an announcement sound when answering the call, and connects the call to a telephone network.
Further, the automatic answering machine receives the message from the caller, and stores the message in a storage. When receiving the next call, the automatic answering machine reproduces the message stored in the storage, and plays the reproduced message to the caller.
The conventional automatic answering machine described above is connected to a public telephone network, and is connected with the information communication network on a point-to-point basis.
The user of the automatic answering machine enters a code of the telephone number to which the automatic answering machine is to be connected through a key board of the automatic answering machine. After the code is entered, the automatic answering machine is connected to the telephone network through the public telephone network. Thereafter, the automatic answering machine is reset by a timer.
In this way, the conventional automatic answering machine is connected to a specific telephone network through a public telephone network.
There is a private telephone network system. The private telephone network system is constructed for a specific address. When the call is received from the private telephone network, the call is connected to a specific terminal device such as a personal computer, a facsimile machine, or a telephone set.
In the private telephone network system, the function is not provided to automatically answer the call. Instead, the call is connected to the terminal device provided for the specific address. Therefore, when an event of an answering machine is generated, the caller cannot automatically receive the call.
For example, if an answering machine is connected to a telephone set, the terminal device such as the telephone set can automatically receive the call by the answering machine. If the automatic answering machine is not provided, it is impossible to automatically receive the call.
Further, the conventional automatic answering machine is connected to the public telephone network, and is connected to the information communication network on a point-to-point basis. Therefore, the conventional automatic be359ba680
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