SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION VOICEMAIL MONITORING

• US 20090025028A1
• Filed: 07/20/2007
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: DeLorme, David, Cassanova, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US11/780,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20090025028A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/104 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00

Abstract

Systems, methods and computer products for Internet Protocol Television voicemail monitoring. Exemplary embodiments include a method for providing voicemail to an Internet-Protocol-enabled device, the method including receiving a communication that a voicemail to a called party is currently being deposited in a voicemail infrastructure, mapping the called party number to an Internet Protocol-enabled device address of the called party, sending an indication to the Internet Protocol-enabled device and sending the voicemail to the Internet Protocol-enabled device address corresponding to the called party number in response to a communication requesting to monitor the voicemail.

Claims

1. A method for providing voicemail to an Internet-Protocol-enabled device, the method comprising;

receiving a first communication that a voicemail to a called party is currently being deposited in a voicemail infrastructure;

mapping a called party number associated with the called party to an Internet Protocol-enabled device address of the called party;

sending a first indication to the Internet Protocol-enabled device; and

sending the voicemail to the Internet Protocol-enabled, device address corresponding to the called party number in response to a communication requesting to monitor the voicemail

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising sending another indication to the Internet Protocol-enabled device in response to receiving a second communication that the voicemail to the called party has been deposited in the voicemail infrastructure.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising sending another indication to the Internet Protocol-enabled device requesting a command to bridge a calling party call device to a called party call device associated with the Internet Protocol-enabled device.

4. The method as claimed, in claim 3 further comprising:

bridging the calling party and called party call devices in response to a communication requesting that the calling party and called part devices be bridged; and

breaking down a connection between the calling party call device and the voicemail infrastructure.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising initiating an encoding session to translate the voicemail for reception on the Internet Protocol-enabled device.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the Internet Protocol-enabled device address includes at least one of a uniform resource locator and an Internet address.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the Internet Protocol-enabled device address corresponds to a set top box.

8. A system for providing voicemail to an Internet Protocol-enabled device, the system, comprising:

a computer processing device; and

a voicemail monitoring services application executing on the computer processing device, the voicemail monitoring services application;

receiving a first communication that a voicemail to a called party is currently being deposited in a voicemail infrastructure;

mapping a called party number associated with the called party to an Internet Protocol-enabled device address of the called party;

sending a first indication to the Internet Protocol-enabled device; and

sending the voicemail to the Internet Protocol-enabled device address corresponding to the called party number in response to a communication requesting to monitor the voicemail.

9. The system as claimed in claim 8 wherein the voicemail monitoring services application sends a second indication to the Internet Protocol-enabled device in response to receiving a second communication that the voicemail to the called party has been, deposited in the voicemail infrastructure.

10. The system as claimed in claim 9 wherein the voicemail monitoring services application receives a communication request from a calling device over a voice network, the communication request Including a calling party identification information of the caller device and the called party number of a called device associated with the communication request.

11. The system as claimed in claim 10 wherein the voicemail monitoring services application sends a third indication to the Interact Protocol-enabled device requesting a command to bridge a calling party call device to the called party call device associated with the Internet Protocol-enabled device.

12. The system as claimed in claim 8 wherein the voicemail monitoring services application initiates an encoding session to translate the voicemail for reception on the Interact Protocol-enabled device.

13. The system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the Internet Protocol-enabled device address includes at least one of a uniform resource locator and an Internet address.

14. The system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the Internet Protocol-enabled device address corresponds to a set top box.

15. A computer program product for providing voicemail services to an Internet Protocol-enabled device, the computer program product including instructions for causing a computer to implement a method, the method comprising:

receiving a first communication that a voicemail to a called party is currently being deposited in a voicemail infrastructure;

mapping a called party number associated with the called party to an Internet Protocol-enabled device address of the called party;

sending a first indication to the internet Protocol-enabled device; and

sending the voicemail to the Internet Protocol-enabled device address corresponding to the called party number in response to a communication requesting to monitor the voicemail.

16. The computer program product as claimed in claim 15 wherein the method further comprises sending a second Indication to the Internet Protocol-enabled device in response to receiving a second communication that the voicemail to the called party has been deposited in the voicemail infrastructure.

17. The computer program product as claimed in claim 16 wherein the method further comprises sending a third indication to the Internet Protocol-enabled device requesting a command to bridge a calling party call device to a called party call device associated with the Internet Protocol-enabled device.

18. The computer program product as claimed in claim 17 wherein the method further comprises:

bridging the calling party and called party call devices in response to a communication requesting that the calling party and called part devices be bridged; and

breaking down a connection between the calling party call device and the voicemail infrastructure.

19. The computer program product, as claimed in claim 15 wherein the method further comprises initiating an encoding session to translate the voicemail for reception on the Internet Protocol-enabled device.

20. The computer program product as claimed in claim 15, wherein the Internet Protocol-enabled device address includes at least one of a uniform resource locator and an Internet address.