Telephone system with emergency override for caller to bypass telephone answering device and cause phone of called party to ring

摘要

A telephone system allowing a caller whose call is intercepted by a telephone answering machine (TAD) to hear an alternate outgoing message from the TAD with instructions allowing the caller, who feels his/her call is an emergency, to override the TAD and cause the user's phone to ring anyway. This invention being applicable to wired and cellular phones and to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and cable system phones.