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Message transfer system

  • US 6,396,908 B1
  • Filed: 11/02/1998
  • Issued: 05/28/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/03/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of transferring a message from a calling party connected to a calling entity comprising a local telephone switch and a local voice mail system, to a called entity comprising a remote telephone switch and a remote voice mail system, said local and remote telephone switches being connected by a communications network such that common channel inter office signalling between the local and remote telephone switches is unsupported, and said local and remote voice message systems being connected by a data network, said method comprising the steps of:

  • initiating a call to a called party at the called entity over a communications channel from the local telephone switch to the remote telephone switch in the communications network;

    identifying that the called party is not available;

    sending information from the remote voice mail system to the local voice mail system over the data network to indicate that the called party is not available; and

    recording the message at the local voice mail system of the calling entity and after recording transmitting the message as a data message via a data channel in the data network for reception by the remote voice mail system.

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