ANSWERPHONE STATE INFORMING SYSTEM, AND ANSWERPHONE STATE INFORMING METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a system for automatically making the confirmation of a message recorded by a respondent inform to a sender recording the message to an answerphone service or the like installed to a portable telephone, a household telephone and a communication network, and to reduce the economical and time burdens of the sender and the respondent. SOLUTION: A device A (100) for the portable telephone and an answerphone (containing an answerphone service) having a message recording function has a message conservation control section (10), a transmission control section (20), a sender-information storage section (30), an information-place storage section (40) and a message storage section (50). The device A (100) further has an information-condition storage section (60), a respondent-state storage section (70) and a message-reproduction control section (80). The device A (100) contains a means for making a respondent-state information displaying the presence of the confirmation of the message inform to an information place (the sender may be permitted) on the basis of the communication-place information of the sender-information storage section (30) or the information-place storage section (40). COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT