Abstract: A Call Screening service assists a subscriber to the service to screen incoming calls. In response to an incoming call, the subscriber is given a special ring. When the subscriber answers the call, a caller who has placed the call is identified to the subscriber without connecting the subscriber to the caller. This is accomplished by prompting the caller to speak through the phone into a recording machine. The recording of the caller's name is played to the subscriber, who then has the option, still without being connected to the caller, to accept the call, refuse the call, or enable the caller to leave a recorded message for later access by the subscriber. This function is accomplished by pressing a key on a telephone keypad or by uttering a command. A special caller list can be created enabling preferred callers to reach the subscriber without being screened, and a refusal list can be generated for automatically blocking calls from disfavored callers.

Abstract: An apparatus for setting the height of a desk chair for a person has a base adapted to stand on the floor, a guide fixed to and extending vertically up from the base, a support vertically slidable in the guide, and a clamp that can arrest the suport in the guide at any of a multiplicity of vertically offset positions therealong. A rigid arm extends horizontally from the support and has an outer end displaceable between a horizontal position nested in the arm and a vertical position depending straight down from the arm outer end and having a lower end 1in to 2in below the outer end of the arm in the vertical position.

Abstract: A device for securing a catheter or like instrument to a patient comprises a first portion having an adhesive surface for securing that portion to the skin of a patient. A second portion is hingedly connected to the first portion and is adapted to fold thereover. The second portion has an adhesive surface to provide securement to the first portion when folded thereover. A slot and a hole are preferably associated with the first and second portions, respectively, for operably positioning the second portion around a catheter, which has been previously connected to the patient, so that the catheter extends through the plane formed by the second portion. This arrangement thereby facilitates the securement of the catheter in place on the patient.A method of securing a previously connected catheter or like instrument to a patient includes securing a device substantially as described above to a patient.