Integrated Visual Voicemail Communications

• US 20110143722A1
• Filed: 12/10/2009
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shaw, Venson M., Rahsaz, Gholam-Reza
• Granted Patent: US 9,363,380 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/413
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53333 Message receiving aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/06 Transport layer protocols, e.g. TCP [Transport Control Protocol] over wireless transmission control protocol/Internet protocol [TCP/IP] or user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16

Abstract

A single visual voicemail communications session is established and used to provide various content to a visual voicemail client on a wireless device. Rather than requiring the establishment of multiple communications session in order to obtain messaging, multimedia, and other content types associated with a voicemail at a wireless device, all such content is obtained or accessed by a voicemail server and transmitted to the wireless device. The wireless device can provide visual voicemail client data to a voicemail server, enabling the voicemail server to modify content as needed so that it is compatible with the wireless device.

Claims

1. A method of utilizing a visual voicemail communications session, the method comprising:

obtaining content associated with a voicemail at a voicemail server;

establishing a single communications session at a visual voicemail server with a wireless device; and

transmitting the content from the visual voicemail server to the wireless device via the single communications session.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the single communications session comprises activating a packet data protocol context.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the single communications session comprises establishing a transmission control protocol session.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving visual voicemail client data at the voicemail server from the wireless device via the single communications session.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising manipulating the content at the visual voicemail server based on the visual voicemail client data.

6. A method of utilizing a visual voicemail communications session, the method comprising:

obtaining data associated with a voicemail at a voicemail server, wherein the data comprises an indicator of content associated with the voicemail;

establishing a single communications session at a visual voicemail server with a wireless device;

transmitting the data from the visual voicemail server to the wireless device via the single communications session;

receiving a request for the content at the visual voicemail server via the single communications session;

obtaining the content at the visual voicemail server; and

transmitting the content from the visual voicemail server via the single communications session.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein establishing the single communications session comprises activating a packet data protocol context.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein establishing the single communications session comprises establishing a transmission control protocol session.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising receiving visual voicemail client data at the visual voicemail server from the wireless device via the single communications session.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising manipulating the content at the visual voicemail server based on the visual voicemail client data.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the content comprises messaging content, and wherein obtaining the content at the visual voicemail server comprises requesting the content from a messaging server.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein the content comprises multimedia content, and wherein obtaining the content at the visual voicemail server comprises requesting the content from a multimedia content server.

13. A wireless device configured to utilize a visual voicemail communications session, the wireless device comprising:

a transceiver configured to;

transmit a request for the establishment of a single communications session between a visual voicemail server and the wireless device;

receive visual voicemail data from the visual voicemail server via the single communications session; and

transmit visual voicemail client data via the single communications session; and

a processor configured to;

execute a visual voicemail client application; and

generate visual voicemail client data.

14. The wireless device of claim 13, wherein the visual voicemail data comprises at least one indicator of content associated with a voicemail.

15. The wireless device of claim 14, wherein the transceiver is further configured to:

transmit a request for the content via the single communications session; and

receive the content via the single communications session; and

wherein the processor is further configured to;

detect a user selection of the content and, responsive to the detecting, instruct the transceiver to transmit the request for the content.

16. The wireless device of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to provide the content to an application configured on the wireless device.

17. The wireless device of claim 13, wherein the visual voicemail data comprises content associated with a voicemail.

18. The wireless device of claim 17, wherein the processor is further configured to provide the content to an application configured on the wireless device.

19. The wireless device of claim 13, wherein the transceiver is further configured to receive a notification of an available voicemail.

20. The wireless device of claim 19, wherein the processor configured to execute the visual voicemail client application comprises the processor configured to detect the notification of the available voicemail and, responsive to the detecting, execute the visual voicemail client application.