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Method and apparatus for screening computer-telephony calls

  • US 6,496,501 B1
  • Filed: 12/29/1997
  • Issued: 12/17/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for screening a computer telephony call having audible communication from a calling party to a called party, the called party having a computer capable of receiving the call, comprising:

  • (a) receiving a data stream comprising the computer telephony call from the calling party at a voice messaging service platform within a data-network;

    (b) recording the audible communication of the computer telephony call at the voice messaging service platform; and

    (c) transmitting, prior to connecting the call between the called party and the calling party, the audible communication of the computer telephony call from the voice messaging service platform to the computer of the called party so that the called party can listen to the audible communication of the call substantially simultaneously to the recording of the communication of the call at the voice messaging service platform.

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