AUTOMATIC ANSWERING TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT AND ITS CALL INCOMING ANSWERING METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To instantly answer to a caller excepting for a specific caller by giving information on the presence/absence of a recorded business by the number of the sending time of a calling sound only concerning an incoming call from the specific caller by an automatic answering telephone equipment. SOLUTION: At the time of recognizing that a telephone number coinciding with a telephone number detected by a call originating number detecting part 5 exists in a telephone number storing part 3 and that no business is recorded in the automatic telephone equipment by referring to an automatic telephone control part 7, a main control part 1 makes a calling sound detecting part 6 to detect a prescribed number of calling sounds, then closes a telephone line 9 and makes the part 7 send an answering message. At the time of recognizing that a business recorded in the automatic telephone equipment exists or that a telephone number matching the telephone number detected by a call originating number detecting part 5 does not exist in the part 3 though no business exists, the part 1 instantly closes the line 9 and makes the part 7 send the answering message to continue recording a business.