Abstract: When a business message, sent from a caller's phone, is recorded in the recording/playback section, the main control section makes a judgement as to whether or not any phone number that coincides with the caller's phone number contained in caller's information received by the caller information receiving section has been recorded in a storage section. If the judgment shows that there is a coincided phone number, it provides a special display in which, for example, the back light or LED of the display section is allowed to flicker, for example, at intervals of 4 Hz, or the illumination color of the back light or the LED is changed, or a message, such as “a business message from Mr. O O”, is displayed. Thus, the answer phone makes it possible for the user to positively recognize whether or not a business message from a desired caller has been recorded promptly.

Abstract: A facsimile apparatus includes a facsimile communication control unit, a terminal number comparing unit connected to said facsimile communication control unit, and a terminal number memory connected to the terminal number comparing unit. The terminal number of a facsimile apparatus of the other party is stored in the terminal number memory. When signals are received by the facsimile apparatus, the terminal number of the other party transmitted in accordance with a protocol is detected by the facsimile communication control unit, and the terminal number comparing unit compares the detected number and the terminal number stored in the terminal number memory. When both numbers match with each other, the received information is printed, stored in a prescribed memory area or subjected to other processing dependent on the number and the associated process stored in the terminal number memory.