Communications control system

Claim 1

A TELEPHONE RECEIVER COMPRISING INPUT LINES, CONTROL MEANS OPERABLE TO DISCONNECT SIAD RECEIVER FROM POSSIBLE INCOMING RINGING SIGNALS OCCURING ON SAID INPUT LINES, RECORDER MEANS OPERABLE TO REPETIVELY PRODUCE A PRE-RECORDED MESSAGE, SAID RECORDER MEANS BEING NORMALLY DISCONNECTED FROM SAID INPUT LINES, MEANS IN SAID CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO AT LEAST ONE OF SAID RINGING SIGNALS FOR CONNECTING SAID RECORDER MEANS TO SAID INPUT LINES TO TRANSMIT SAID REPETITIVE PRE-RECORDED MESSAGE BACK TOWARD THE SOURCE OF SAID RINGING SIGNALS, MEANS FOR AUTOMATICALLY TERMINATING SAID TRANSMISSION AFTER A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF REPETITIONS OF SAID MESSAGE HAVE OCCURRED, MEANS FOR COUNTING THE NUMBER OF RINGING SIGNALS WHICH ARE INTERCEPTED AT SAID CONTROL MEANS, AND SWITHCHING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO OCCURRENCE OF A PREDETERMINED PLURALIYT OF SUCCESSIVE SUCH RINGING SIGNALS FOR CONNECTING SUBSEQUENT RINGING SIGNALS TO SAID RECEIVER, SAID PREDETERMINED PLURALITY OF RINGING SIGNALS BEING AT LEAST EQUAL IN NUMBER TO SAID PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF MESSAGE REPETITIONS.