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Abstract

A multi-user personal message transmitting and receiving system utilizing a conventional facsimile machine, a conventional facsimile machine having line connections to the input/output port of a computer, a conventional paperless facsimile machine with memory for document storage, a MODEM equipped computer, or a conventional answering machine with mass memory for message storage. A dual tone multi-frequency decoder (DTMF receiver) is connected to the telephone network of the machine or computer utilized and a voice synthesizer is connected to the telephone network advising the caller on the telephone line concerning the personal information codes of the users of the system or advising the caller to enter the personal information code of the particular user prior to transmitting the message. A coding system is built into the central processing unit of the machine or computer utilized for setting and storing the individual user personal information codes and corresponding personal confidential codes and recognizing the incoming code preceding an incoming message. When the incoming code is recognized as one of the stored personal information codes, the coding system controls the automatic reception and storage of the incoming message in the respective code area of the memory which can be retrieved by the respective user by entering the respective personal confidential code.

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