Abstract: A telephone intercept device interposed between a telephone company network and telecommunications equipment in a consumer unit. The telephone intercept device monitors outgoing telephone numbers and disconnects the telecommunications equipment from the telephone company network, when necessary to redirect the telephone call to a different telephone number. An electrically-controlled switching circuit disconnects the equipment from the network. A first circuit determines off-hook condition to latch power for the device from the telephone company network. A second circuit mimics an off-hook state to the telephone company to allow the device to dial out the substitute number. A memory contains the target telephone numbers for redirection, as well as the associated redirected telephone number. The intercept device may also be used to communicate to remote monitoring stations the occurrence of an event associated with the consumer unit. A method for intercepting telephone numbers is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting a copy of an original document from a first location to a second location by means of transmitting an electronic image of said document and printing the same at the second location, verifying the accuracy of the transmitted image, validating the transmitted and printed copy and destroying the original document at the first location, and scanning, verifying, printing, comparing accuracy and validation of the transmitted copy.

Abstract: A method and apparatus by which an original document in one location may be transmitted by image transmission, facsimile, or the like, to another location, verified as to accuracy, certified as a replacement for the original, and the original then destroyed so that the verified copy becomes, in legal effect, the only original of the document; wherein this is accomplished by placing the original in an enclosed, locked, tamper proof environment from which it is transmitted by image transmission, facsimile, or the like, to a different location in which the copy is maintained in a locked and tamper proof environment; the copy is compared by electronic or optical scanning, or other such arrangement, to the original to verify accuracy; when verified, the copy is coded so as to indicate the only useable, as though the only, original copy of its type and simultaneously the original is automatically destroyed or voided in its locked environment.