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Delivery of urgent messages by integrated forced delivery and voice mailbox

  • US 6,215,859 B1
  • Filed: 10/02/1997
  • Issued: 04/10/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/02/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of delivering a voice-mail message, comprising the steps of:

  • recording a voice-mail message for a recipient of the message including the step of recording a voice-mail message for a plurality of recipients;

    determining whether the voice-mail message has an urgent status including the step of determining whether the voice-mail message has an urgent status for at least one of the plurality of recipients; and

    generating a call to the message recipient for delivering the message, including the steps of;

    generating a call to each respective message recipient for which the message has an urgent status immediately after a telephone line for the recipient becomes not busy when the telephone line for the message recipient is busy, and generating a call to each respective message recipient for which the message has an urgent status based on a predetermined schedule when the call generated to the message recipient is unanswered.

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