Telephone answering device, and method for telephone answering by acquiring procedure files stating various answering functions realized by telephone answering device thereof

摘要

There are obtained various telephone answering procedures by stating telephone answering procedures by a markup language, and by acquiring the telephone answering procedures via a communication network. A telephone answering device which executes an answering process in respect to a telephone connected via a telephone communication network, and comprises a communication portion for connecting with an appropriate WWW server through the communication network under the command of a central controlling portion, a recording portion for acquiring and recording an HTML document described with the telephone answering procedures in the markup language from the WWW server connected in the communication portion, a decoding portion for reading out the telephone answering procedures HTML document from the recording portion, and decoding a series of execution commands of the telephone answering procedures, and a telephone controlling portion for executing the answering operation to the telephone according to the execution command of the decoded telephone answering procedures when a call is received from the portable telephone.