Abstract: An answering system of the present invention, connected to a public line or a private line, is capable of recording and reproducing audio and/or visual data, and is adopted, for example, in a telephone and a mobile communication terminal. The present answering system includes confirming units for confirming whether a message sent to a receiver by the unspecified caller with an arbitrary ID has been processed by the receiver, when the unspecified caller accesses again with the arbitrary ID.

Abstract: An intelligent terminal device capable of displaying message information to be transmitted/received by using a font having a predetermined size depending upon the amount of the information and of changing fonts having different sizes in response to a command. A message is received by a receiving unit, demodulating unit and data detecting unit, and is stored in a register unit after being passed through a CPU. The amount of information is measured in a character number count unit, where a reference data corresponding to the amount of the information is fed to a display control unit by a comparator. The display control unit selects font from a font storing unit in accordance with the reference data and causes the display unit to display the message stored in the register unit in the selected font. Fonts used for display may be intentionally changed by a user actuating up and down keys of the key pad.