SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED VOICEMAILS

• US 20090279676A1
• Filed: 03/20/2008
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nicholas Zazza
• Original Assignee: Nicholas Zazza
• Inventors: Zazza, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US12/052,669
• Publication Number:
  US 20090279676A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/88.170
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/39 using speech synthesis speech synthesis per se G10L13/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4509 Unified messaging with single point of access to voicemail and other mail or messaging systems unified messaging in packet switching networks H04L51/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53366 Message disposing or creating aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/003 Click to dial services

Abstract

A computer implemented method of sending a voicemail, the method comprising the steps of: providing a first user having a first user ID associated with a first phone number; accepting an voicemail request from the first user containing at least one email address; receiving in a computer based system the voicemail request and the computer based system places a telephone call to the first phone number; playing an advertisement to the first user; recording a voicemail from the first user; and emailing an email containing at least one word of transcribed text from the voicemail to the email address.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of sending a voicemail through a web page input, said method comprising the steps of:

providing a first user having a first user ID associated with a first phone number;

accepting an voicemail request from said first user containing at least one email address;

receiving in a computer based system said voicemail request and said computer based system places a telephone call to said first phone number;

playing an advertisement to said first user;

recording a voicemail from said first user; and

emailing an email containing at least one word of transcribed text from said voicemail to said email address.

2. A method as in claim 1, wherein said step of playing an

advertisement is played on at least one of said first user'"'"'s cell phone, said first user'"'"'s computer and said first user'"'"'s hand held device.

3. A method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of:

Emailing a copy of said voicemail to said first user'"'"'s email address.

4. A method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of:

rating said voicemail.

5. A method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of:

Attaching a sound file to said email, said sound file being a recording of said voicemail.

6. A method as in claim 5, wherein said sound file is selected from the group consisting of:

wav, mp3, aiff and au.

7. A computer implemented method of sending a voicemail through a web page input, said method comprising the steps of:

providing a first user having a first user ID associated with a first phone number;

initiating short messaging service (SMS) to at least one system server;

accepting a voicemail request from said first user containing at least one destination email address;

receiving in said at least one system server said voicemail request and saving said voicemail request in a call queue;

calling said first phone by said at least one system server;

playing an advertisement to said first user;

recording a voicemail from said first user; and

transcribing the content of said voicemail to text to provide a transcribed message;

emailing said destination email address said transcribed message.

8. A method as in claim 7, wherein said step of playing an advertisement is played on at least one of said first user'"'"'s cell phone, said first user'"'"'s computer and said first user'"'"'s hand held device.

9. A method as in claim 7, further comprising the step of:

Emailing a copy of said voicemail to said first user'"'"'s email address.

10. A method as in claim 7, further comprising the step of:

rating said voicemail.

11. A method as in claim 7, further comprising the step of:

Attaching a sound file to said email, said sound file being a recording of said voicemail.

12. A method as in claim 7, wherein said sound file is selected from the group consisting of:

wav, mp3, aiff and au.

13. A system for sending a voicemail through a web page input, said system comprising:

at least one initiating phone apparatus;

at least one master database;

at least one server farm;

at least one text server farm;

a web page;

at least one queue monitoring farm;

at least one communications server;

at least one voicemail storage server; and

wherein a first user having a first telephone number inputs a voicemail request into at least a portion of said webpage including a destination email address, said at least one text server farm determines at least one available server in said at least one server farm, said available server accepts said voicemail request and determines from said master database said first user'"'"'s plan and determines the advertisement status, said voicemail request and said advertisement status is placed in said queue monitoring farm, said at least one server farm calls said first telephone number, said at least one communications server plays an advertisement according to said advertisement status, upon completion of said advertisement said at least one server farm accepts and records a voice recording from said first user, said voice recording is transcribed by said communications server to provide a transcribed voicemail and said transcribed voicemail is sent by email to said destination email address.

14. A system as in claim 13, wherein said advertisement status is selected from the group consisting of:

free, free and international, paid, paid and international.

15. A system as in claim 13, further comprising:

A toolbar for accepting said voicemail request, wherein one of said at least one load balancer determines an available server.

16. A system as in claim 13, further comprising:

At least one load balancer wherein said first user sends a voicemail request

via said telephone apparatus and said one of said at least one load balancer determines an available server.

17. A system as in claim 13, further comprising:

a scripting server for providing messages to users.