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Abstract

A telephone answering system with paging function is adapted to transmit a prerecorded outgoing message to a calling party through a closed loop of telephone lines established upon reception or a telephone calling signal, and record an incoming message from the calling party after the outgoing message is transmitted. The system operates to receive a signal representative of the caller's telephone number sent from the calling party through the telephone lines to store the same signal in a memory, and then automatically and temporarily release the closed loop, and thereafter reestablish the closed loop for calling a preset telephone number of a paging center. Further, the system transmits the stored signal representing the caller's telephone number to the paging center through the telephone lines upon reception of an answer from the center.

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