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Method and apparatus for selecting and playing a voice mail message

  • US 5,568,540 A
  • Filed: 04/14/1995
  • Issued: 10/22/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/13/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method, in a telephone switching system with a voice mail box for a ,called party with an extension connected to the system via a first communications link, which extension includes a multi-item textual display, for the system to select and transmit to the called party a voice mail message left by a caller, via a second communications link, while the called party is using the first communications link, comprising:

  • a. receiving a plurality of calls, each from a caller, directed to the called party'"'"'s extension and connecting each caller to the called party'"'"'s voice mail box,b. receiving a data set of voice sounds from each caller, separately recording each data set of voice sounds in the mail box,c. displaying on the called party'"'"'s extension'"'"'s display a list comprised of a plurality of items, each item comprised of a string of characters, one string of characters for each of the plurality of voice sound data sets recorded in the called party'"'"'s voice mail box,d. receiving at the called party'"'"'s extension a selection by a user of one of the plurality of displayed strings of characters, ande. transmitting the data set of voice sounds corresponding to the selected string of characters to the called party'"'"'s extension, while the called party is using the first communications link, via the second communications link.

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