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Message waiting alerting method

  • US 4,582,959 A
  • Filed: 06/05/1984
  • Issued: 04/15/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/05/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of providing automatic message waiting alerting for principals of stations served by a telephone system, in which the system contains arrangements for allowing the generation of messages intended for ones of the stations by other ones of the stations, message waiting indicators associated with each of the stations and a database, said method comprising the steps ofstoring messages, including identities of the stations for which the messages are intended, in the database in response to generation of the messages,activating the message waiting indicators associated with the stations for which messages are stored,marking a said message in the database as accessed in response to an accessed signal by an authorized party during a message retrieval operation for a principal one of the stations,searching the database at the end of the retrieval operation, andextinguishing the message waiting indicator associated with said one principal station in response to the last-mentioned searching step if all messages in the database intended for said one station are marked as accessed.

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