Visual voicemail management
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving, by a first telecommunications terminal from a voicemail management system;
(i) a first plurality of voicemail indicia associated with voicemails stored on a first voicemail platform, and(ii) a second plurality of voicemail indicia associated with voicemails stored on a second voicemail platform; and
displaying, by the first telecommunications terminal, the first plurality of voicemail indicia and the second plurality of voicemail indicia interleaved in a chronological order,wherein the voicemail management system interleaves the first plurality of voicemail indicia and the second plurality of voicemail indicia into the chronological order that is displayed by the first telecommunications terminal.
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Abstract
A voicemail message management system and method are provided. A list of voicemail messages is displayed on a screen such as a cellular telephone screen. Indicators specify whether messages are new, urgent, saved, not yet heard, and the like. Other attributes can also be displayed, including for example indications as to source of a message, message duration, date/time, caller, urgent or private, and the like. These indicators provide guidance to the user for selecting which messages he or she would like to hear at a given time. The user can listen to messages, delete them, move them, categorize them, and perform other operations in any order the user chooses.
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1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a first telecommunications terminal from a voicemail management system; (i) a first plurality of voicemail indicia associated with voicemails stored on a first voicemail platform, and (ii) a second plurality of voicemail indicia associated with voicemails stored on a second voicemail platform; and displaying, by the first telecommunications terminal, the first plurality of voicemail indicia and the second plurality of voicemail indicia interleaved in a chronological order, wherein the voicemail management system interleaves the first plurality of voicemail indicia and the second plurality of voicemail indicia into the chronological order that is displayed by the first telecommunications terminal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method comprising:
receiving by a voicemail management system; (i) a first plurality of voicemail indicia associated with voicemails stored on a first voicemail platform, and (ii) a second plurality of voicemail indicia associated with voicemails stored on a second voicemail platform; and interleaving, by the voicemail management system, the first plurality of voicemail indicia and the second plurality of voicemail indicia into a list of indicia that are in chronological order; and transmitting, by the voicemail management system, the list of indicia to a first telecommunications terminal. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A voicemail management system comprising:
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a server having a connection to a local area network, wherein the connection enables the server to communicate with a first voicemail platform and a second voicemail platform, and wherein the server is operative to; receive a first plurality of voicemail indicia associated with voicemails stored on the first voicemail platform, and a second plurality of voicemail indicia associated with voicemails stored on the second voicemail platform; interleave the first plurality of voicemail indicia and the second plurality of voicemail indicia into a list of indicia in a chronological order that is to be displayed by a first telecommunications terminal; and transmit the list in the chronological order to the first telecommunications terminal. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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