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Automated voice mail/answering machine greeting system

  • US 5,832,062 A
  • Filed: 07/28/1997
  • Issued: 11/03/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/19/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for providing an automated greeting for a voice mail or answering machine system, comprising the following steps:

  • (a) retrievably storing greeting text, including identification of each user providing said greeting text, and relevant date and relevant time information associated with each said greeting text;

    (b) upon detection of an incoming call from a telephone directed to said user, determining incoming date and incoming time of said call;

    (c) comparing said incoming date and incoming time of said call with stored greeting text for said user to identify any said stored greeting text whose associated said relevant date is identical to said incoming date of said call and to further identify any said stored greeting text whose relevant date is identical to said incoming date and whose associated said relevant time defines a time window within which said incoming time of said call occurs;

    (d) retrieving any said stored greeting text identified in step (c) as having identity of said relevant date and said incoming date, and having said incoming time occurring within a window defined by said relevant time, text so identified being termed as step (c) identified greeting text, and converting any said step (c) identified greeting text to voice, wherein any of a chosen list of words in said step (c) identified greeting text may be deleted; and

    (e) audibly coupling to said telephone text that was converted in step (d) to voice;

    wherein unless said call is answered by a human, a caller hears on said telephone text converted at step (e) as relevant to said date and time as said automated greeting.

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