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Telecommunications custom calling services using voice mail

  • US 6,243,374 B1
  • Filed: 03/13/1997
  • Issued: 06/05/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A communications system comprising in combination:

  • a) first and second switched telecommunications networks having trunked together switching systems connected by local links to subscriber stations and having a switching control data network for effecting selective connection of said subscriber stations through said switching systems;

    b) said first and second switched telecommunications networks each having a central voice messaging system, said messaging systems each having storage for digitized voice messages;

    c) a routing database connected to the Internet and having stored therein routing information for effecting selective connection of calls placed to called subscriber stations pursuant to preselected options of said called subscriber stations;

    d) at least one of said switching systems having control parameters set therein, wherein the initiation of a signal for connection between a caller at one of said subscriber stations to one of said called subscriber stations causes data signaling between at least one of said switched telecommunications networks and said routing database through the Internet, resulting in retrieval of routing instructions corresponding to a stored preselected option from said routing database and in connection between said caller and one of said central voice messaging systems pursuant to said routing instructions, whereby said caller stores a message in said one central voice messaging system for subsequent delivery to said called subscriber station.

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