SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORWARDING MESSAGES
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1. A device comprising:
- a voice message recorder configured to record a voice message in response to an unavailability of a first party; and
a voice message segmentor configured to segment the recorded voice message into voice-message segments, the voice-message segments having a size that does not meet a threshold capacity of a voice buffer, each segment of the voice messages being recursively recorded and transmitted until the entire voice message is recorded and transmitted.
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Abstract
A system and method for forwarding voice messages is presented. One embodiment of the system comprises a voice message recorder configured to record a voice message, and a call controller configured to attach the recorded voice message to an electronic message and forward the electronic message to a predetermined forwarding address. One embodiment of the method can be broadly summarized as receiving a voice message from a caller in response to a pre-recorded voice prompt, recording the received voice message, and preparing and delivering an electronic message with the voice message attached to the electronic message.
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1. A device comprising:
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a voice message recorder configured to record a voice message in response to an unavailability of a first party; and a voice message segmentor configured to segment the recorded voice message into voice-message segments, the voice-message segments having a size that does not meet a threshold capacity of a voice buffer, each segment of the voice messages being recursively recorded and transmitted until the entire voice message is recorded and transmitted. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for forwarding messages, comprising:
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determining an unavailability of a first party for an internet telephony session; recording a voice message; preparing an electronic message including the voice message; segmenting the voice message into voice-message segments, each of the voice-message segments having a size that does not meet a threshold capacity of a voice buffer, each segment of the voice message being recursively recorded and transmitted until the entire voice message has been recorded and transmitted; and delivering the prepared electronic message to a predetermined forwarding address. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computer readable storage medium encoded with a computer program with logic, comprising:
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logic determining an unavailability of a first party for an internet telephony session; logic receiving a voice message from a first caller; and logic segmenting the voice message into voice-message segments, each of the voice-message segments having a size that does not meet a threshold capacity of a voice buffer, each segment of the voice message being recursively recorded and transmitted until the entire voice message has been recorded and transmitted. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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