Notification system for multimedia messaging systems
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1. A multimedia messaging system, comprising:
- a mailbox adapted to receive and store one or more messages;
a message transmittal unit responsive to said mailbox receiving said one or more messages to enable one or more notification messages in a plurality of media formats to be generated, said one or more notification messages indicative of whether said mailbox can store any more calls; and
a user alert table to store the one or more locations where the said one or more notification message are to be sent;
wherein said message transmittal unit Is adapted to generate said one or more notification messages indicative of whether said mailbox can store any more calls in a plurality of media formats serially to the one or more locations if a user does not pick up at a previous one of said one or more locations.
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Abstract
A system and method within a multimedia messaging system for automatically enabling the system to notify a user that his or her mailbox is full and therefore no longer accepting messages for storage. The system includes one or more mailboxes to receive and store messages from callers, a capacity calculator to determine whether the messages stored in the mailbox exceed the allotted amount of storage space and a message transmittal unit to enable one or more notification alerts to be generated in response to the capacity calculator determining that the mailbox is full.
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5 Claims
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1. A multimedia messaging system, comprising:
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a mailbox adapted to receive and store one or more messages;
a message transmittal unit responsive to said mailbox receiving said one or more messages to enable one or more notification messages in a plurality of media formats to be generated, said one or more notification messages indicative of whether said mailbox can store any more calls; and
a user alert table to store the one or more locations where the said one or more notification message are to be sent;
wherein said message transmittal unit Is adapted to generate said one or more notification messages indicative of whether said mailbox can store any more calls in a plurality of media formats serially to the one or more locations if a user does not pick up at a previous one of said one or more locations. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
5.The system of claim 4 wherein said contact information includes one or more voice telephone numbers. -
5. The system of claim 1 wherein said contact information includes one or more pager numbers.
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