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Integrated multimedia messaging system

  • US 5,951,638 A
  • Filed: 03/21/1997
  • Issued: 09/14/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/21/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for use on a digital network for coordinating messages received in both a first messaging system which receives and stores messages in a first format and a second heterogeneous messaging system which receives and stores messages in a second format, the apparatus comprising:

  • a synchronizer connected to the network;

    a first standard interface connecting the synchronizer to the first messaging system to allow the synchronizer to control the first messaging system;

    a second standard interface connecting the synchronizer to the second messaging system to allow the synchronizer to control the second messaging system;

    a first mechanism in the synchronizer for examining the second messaging system and for insuring that information is stored in the first messaging system corresponding to messages stored in second messaging system; and

    a second mechanism in the synchronizer cooperating with the first mechanism for deleting messages stored in the second messaging system corresponding to the information stored in the first messaging system.

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