Electronic forms voice messaging apparatus and method
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1. A voice messaging apparatus, comprising:
- means for storing a plurality of discrete outgoing message components;
means, responsive to an incoming call, for serially broadcasting said plurality of stored outgoing message components;
means for recording an incoming message component after each of said broadcast outgoing message components; and
means that permits a user to select an order in which said recorded incoming message components are output from said recording means during incoming message retrieval.
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Abstract
Apparatus and method for electronic form voice messaging. Logic is provided for generating a plurality of user specified outgoing and playback message components. Incoming message components that are responsive to the outgoing message components are combined in a user defined manner with the playback message components to form an output playback message. A user may specify a plurality of playback formats. Computer based and answering machine based embodiments are disclosed. A graphic user interface is taught in conjunction with the computer based implementation.
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1. A voice messaging apparatus, comprising:
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means for storing a plurality of discrete outgoing message components; means, responsive to an incoming call, for serially broadcasting said plurality of stored outgoing message components; means for recording an incoming message component after each of said broadcast outgoing message components; and means that permits a user to select an order in which said recorded incoming message components are output from said recording means during incoming message retrieval. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A voice messaging apparatus, comprising:
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means for storing a plurality of discrete outgoing message components; means, responsive to an incoming call, for serially broadcasting each of said plurality of stored outgoing message components; means for recording an incoming message component after each of said broadcast outgoing message components; means for storing a plurality of playback message components; and means for combining said incoming message components and said playback message components in a user specified manner to produce an output playback message. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of voice message processing, comprising the steps of:
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storing a plurality of discrete outgoing message components; serially broadcasting said plurality of stored outgoing message components in response to an incoming call; recording an incoming message component after each of said broadcast outgoing message components; and causing said incoming message components to be played back in an order specified by a user. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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