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Advanced voicemail features without carrier voicemail support

  • US 8,498,625 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2011
  • Issued: 07/30/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for enabling voicemail features locally at a phone coupled to a carrier network, comprising:

  • receiving at the phone a phone call from a caller;

    in response to receiving the phone call from the caller, determining whether the caller is an identifiable or known caller;

    intercepting at the phone the received phone call, wherein the intercepting occurs before the phone call is directed to the carrier voicemail system;

    automatically, without user intervention, sending a prerecorded message from the mobile phone to the caller after a configurable time-delay has elapsed;

    automatically, without user intervention, recording an incoming audio message from the caller;

    transcribing the recorded audio message, the transcribing includinggenerating, using the recorded audio message, a text transcription and text metadata relating to one or more playback features at the phone;

    annotating the recorded audio message with the text transcription and text metadata, wherein at least a portion of the audio message is associated with the text transcription and text metadata; and

    storing the recorded audio message annotated with the text transcription and the text metadata at a local data store of the phone, independent of the carrier voicemail system, wherein the recorded audio message is available to an application with voicemail functionality executable by the phone.

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