Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
379880120 | Indication or notification of message | 63 |
20080205602 | Recipient-Controlled Remote E-Mail Alerting and Delivery - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide message notification systems and methods. Briefly described, one embodiment of a message notification method can be broadly summarized by the following: receiving a new message at a first inbox of a recipient; determining existence of at least one trigger for determining if a notification is to be sent for a newly received message at the first inbox; and sending a notification alerting the recipient of the arrival of the new message at the first inbox, the notification being sent to a second inbox of the recipient that is different than the first inbox. Other methods and systems are also provided. | 08-28-2008 |
20080205603 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing voicemail routing information in a network that provides customized voicemail services - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing voicemail routing information in a network that provides customized voicemail services are disclosed. According to one method, a voicemail routing query is received at an advanced voicemail routing node, where the query includes at least one parameter associated with a voicemail transaction. Based on at least one query parameter, voicemail routing information may be determined that identifies a voicemail server and a voicemail service from among a plurality of voicemail servers, where at least some of the voicemail servers provide different services. A voicemail routing query response may then be generated including the determined voicemail routing information. | 08-28-2008 |
20080292069 | IP HANDSET-BASED VOICE MAIL NOTIFICATION - A system and method that notifies the receipt of a voicemail message at an IP telephone using one or more of instant messaging and short message service. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides an IP telephone that prepares a notification regarding the receipt of a voicemail message. In one embodiment, the IP telephone queries the availability of an instant messaging client via an instant messaging presence server, and forwards the notification to the instant messaging presence server if the instant messaging client is available. In another embodiment, the IP telephone sends the notification to a short message service client via a short message service gateway. In still another embodiment, the IP telephone sends the notification to both instant messaging client and short message service clients. | 11-27-2008 |
20080304634 | Voice Mail Notification Using Instant Messaging - A system and method that notifies a voice mailbox subscriber of the receipt of a message at a voicemail server using instant messaging. A preferred embodiment of the invention includes an enhanced notification server that receives a notification of the message from the voicemail server, queries the availability of an instant messaging client via an instant messaging presence server, and forwards the notification to the instant messaging client via the instant messaging presence server if the instant messaging client is available. In preferred embodiments, provisions are made to forward the message to the subscriber via instant messaging. | 12-11-2008 |
20080310602 | MESSAGING WITH A LOCKED COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device supports leaving a message using a communication device input interface when the device is in a locked state. The communication device may be a network telephone having a display interface and a user input interface. The communication device may be configured to transition to a locked state, store a message based on input received at the locked communication device, and present the message to an intended recipient. The message may be presented to the intended recipient upon unlocking the device (e.g., stored locally and presented when the phone is unlocked), presented to the intended recipient in accordance with communication settings (e.g., delivered to an email account, cell phone, etc.), or otherwise delivered. | 12-18-2008 |
20090003541 | NETWORK-HOSTED SERVER, A METHOD OF MONITORING A CALL CONNECTED THERETO AND A NETWORK-HOSTED VOICEMAIL SERVER - The present invention provides a network-hosted server, a method of monitoring a call connected to a network-hosted server and a network-hosted voicemail server associated with a called party. In one embodiment, the network hosted server includes: (1) a call-alerter configured to provide an indication to a called party when a call between a calling party and the network-hosted server is established and (2) a call monitor coupled to the call-alerter and configured to establish a one-way connection of the call between the server and the called party to allow the called party to monitor the call in progress. | 01-01-2009 |
20090022286 | MESSAGING ADVISE IN PRESENCE-AWARE NETWORKS - A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations:
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20090022287 | MESSAGING ADVISE IN PRESENCE-AWARE NETWORKS - A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations:
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20090022288 | MESSAGING ADVISE IN PRESENCE-AWARE NETWORKS - A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations: | 01-22-2009 |
20090022289 | MESSAGING ADVISE IN PRESENCE-AWARE NETWORKS - A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations:
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20090028303 | MESSAGING ADVISE IN PRESENCE-AWARE NETWORKS - A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations:
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20090041211 | Wireless and Wireline Messaging Services - Automatic access to a secondary or alternate voicemail box while operating or using a first or primary voicemail box is provided. One touch access to an alternate voicemail box from a wireless telephone device is further provided, and access to a given voicemail box from a number of trusted telephone devices is provided without requiring users of the trusted devices to authenticate into the voicemail box (e.g., provide a password). | 02-12-2009 |
20090122966 | Controlling Voice Mail Systems From Instant Messaging Clients - A method of controlling a voice mail system with an instant messaging client is disclosed. For example, the illustrative embodiment enables a user of a instant messaging client to forward a voice mail message to one or more people listed in the instant messaging client's buddy list. Furthermore, the instant messaging client also enables the user to annotate the voice mail message and to send the voice mail commentary alone with the voice mail message to one or more people listed in the instant messaging client's buddy list. | 05-14-2009 |
20090147930 | MULTIMEDIA SPAM DETERMINATION USING SPEECH CONVERSION - Determining unwanted multimedia message originated from a multimedia call. An interface receives a multimedia message from a telecommunication service operator, and multimedia message is stored on a storage area. A unified communication system manages communication message delivery to at least one of the following access points for the recipient, and the unified communication system includes a processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions for identifying a voice portion from content of the received multimedia message. An anti-spam engine is applied to analyze a textual representation of the identified voice portion, and a confidence ranking of the representation is generated in response to the analyzed representation. It is determined whether the multimedia message is an unwanted multimedia message as a function of the confidence ranking and the analyzed representation. | 06-11-2009 |
20090185668 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPATCHING AN ALERT MESSAGE IN A NETWORK - This method for dispatching an alert message in a telecommunications network comprises a step (E | 07-23-2009 |
20090238345 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE SILENCING OF TELEPHONE RINGING - A system and method for a selective ring silencer that prevents people from having to listen to the telephone ring on and on with nuisance calls. The ringer silencer can be: (1) discretely constructed from a telephone, (2) part of a telecommunication device, or (3) part of a central telephone network construction. A receiver demodulates an incoming call. Control logic reads at least a portion of the called identification (CID) data and determines an action based on the reading. A switch in communication with the control logic is actuated to a first state that allows the communication data to be output from the ring silencer, and a second state that blocks the communication data from being output from the ring silencer to a user's communication device. The control logic blocks toll-free area codes originated calls from ringing a user's telephone, optionally forwarding the call to a voice mail module. | 09-24-2009 |
20090245483 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR NOTIFYING MISSED CALL OR UNREAD E-MAIL - An information processing terminal device includes a state monitoring unit that monitors whether or not there exits an unread e-mail or a missed call, a light order control unit that makes an emitting unit emit a color corresponding to each sender in a given order when the unread e-mail or the missed call is detected, where a light order control unit determines a light order of the colors according to a receiving order of the unread e-mail or an incoming order of the missed call. | 10-01-2009 |
20100002851 | METHOD AND EQUIPMENTS FOR ESTABLISHING TELECOMMUNICATION - The present invention relates to a method for establishing telecommunication between at least a first and a second users within a telecommunication network comprising the following steps: | 01-07-2010 |
20100080362 | Unified Greeting Service for Telecommunications Events - A technique is disclosed that enables a telecommunications user to initially enter a greeting message in a single media format such as either voice or text. Subsequently, this greeting message is used by a server in response to any communication event that arrives for the user, such as a voice call or an email message, regardless of the media format of the arriving communication event. When the server receives arrival notifications of various communication events, it generates a customized greeting message in response to that event and in the same media format as the event itself. In other words, the server represents a previously-prepared outgoing voice or text message i) as a voice message in response to an incoming voice call and ii) as a textual message in response to an email, SMS text message, or instant message. | 04-01-2010 |
20100086109 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for Interactive Voice Notification and Product Registration - An automated product registration system registers a product in response to an incoming telephone call. Outbound telephonic notifications are sent based on user responses during the product registration. The notification can be a product recall alert, information about a complementary product and/or new feature the user showed interest in, and/or an option to extend warranty coverage. The system can transfer the user to a live agent when the user requests more information. | 04-08-2010 |
20100091955 | Notification System - A method for providing a notification includes receiving a notification request at a central location. The notification request includes an audible message, a notification time, and a destination. The audible message is stored at the central location and associated with the notification time and destination. A current time is determined and compared with the determined notification time. The method further includes connecting a telephone call to the destination based on the determination and transmitting the stored audible message to the destination during the telephone call based on the connection. | 04-15-2010 |
20100091956 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ENHANCED CALL SCREENING - This disclosure details the implementation of methods, systems and computer program products for enhanced call screening (hereinafter, “ECS”). ECS systems implement a live call screening application whereby users may hear voicemail messages in real time as they are being recorded, decide whether or not they wish to talk to the caller leaving the message, and engage the caller in two-way communications by indicating interest in doing so. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: receiving a voicemail recording phase indicator, wherein the voicemail recording phase indicator indicates initiation of a recording phase for an incoming voice message by a voicemail server; establishing a communicative connection between the voicemail server and a call recipient device in response to the voicemail recording phase indicator; instructing transmission of a data stream from the voicemail server to the call recipient device via the communicative connection, the data stream comprising the incoming voice message in real-time recording progress. | 04-15-2010 |
20100158211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VISUAL VOICEMAIL INTERFACE - A system and method for receiving information for voicemail. A call is received from a caller. A voicemail message from the caller is recorded. A caller identifier is received from the caller in response to recording the voicemail message. The caller identifier is associated with one or more profiles. The voicemail message is filed utilizing the associated profile in response to receiving the caller identifier. | 06-24-2010 |
20100246783 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING A CALLING PARTY TO LEAVE A VOICE MESSAGE FOR A CALLED PARTY IN RESPONSE TO A COMMAND PROVIDED BY THE CALLING PARTY - A method for allowing a calling party to leave a message for a called party. The method comprises: receiving a command provided by the calling party and indicative of a desire of the calling party to leave a message for the called party; obtaining message destination information associated with the called party; receiving a voice message provided by the calling party; generating an electronic message representative of the voice message; and causing transmission of the electronic message based on the message destination information. An apparatus for implementing the method is also provided. | 09-30-2010 |
20100278320 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERRUPTING AN ACTIVE TELEPHONY SESSION TO DELIVER INFORMATION TO A SUBSCRIBER - A method and apparatus for delivering information to a subscriber involved in an active telephony session is provided. A message originating from a sender and directed to the subscriber is received. Information related to the message is delivered to the subscriber by interrupting the active telephony session involving the subscriber. | 11-04-2010 |
20100322393 | VOICEMAIL NOTIFICATION SERVER LOAD BALANCING - A device receives, from a management server, an optimal number of threads, generates a dynamic thread based on the optimal number of threads, and retrieves, from a message store, a message based on the dynamic thread and when the message store is not empty. The device receives a binding from a voicemail server associated with a voicemail user, generates a notification based on the retrieved message and based on the binding, and provides the notification to a user device associated with the voicemail user. | 12-23-2010 |
20110110503 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MESSAGE NOTIFICATION VIA RSS FEED - Methods of receiving audio transmissions over a telecommunication connection, extracting information about the transmissions, and publishing the information to an RSS feed are described and claimed. Systems and software using the methods are also described and claimed. | 05-12-2011 |
20110135070 | SYNCHRONIZING VOICEMAIL AMONG MULTIPLE CLIENT ACCESS POINTS - A set of servers connect to a group of voicemail systems and to a group of client access points. The set of servers may receive a request to perform a transaction relating to a voicemail mailbox of a particular voicemail system; cause the transaction to be performed with regard to the voicemail mailbox of the particular voicemail system; and receive a notification that the transaction was performed with regard to the voicemail mailbox of the particular voicemail system. The set of servers may perform synchronization processes to synchronize the client access points with regard to the transaction that was performed with regard to the voicemail mailbox of the particular voicemail system, where each of the client access points contains a same view of the voicemail mailbox as a result of the synchronization processes. | 06-09-2011 |
20110142209 | PRESENCE-BASED MESSAGE WAITING INDICATOR AND MISSED CALLS - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for using a presence-based network to provide call notification information. According to one embodiment, a method of providing information related to a communication can comprise receiving a publication of one or more presence attributes. The one or more presence attributes can comprise at least one attribute indicating call notification information. A presence profile can be associated with an entity. For example, the entity can comprises a recipient of the communication. The presence profile can be updated based on the received presence attributes. The attribute indicating call notification information can be provided to one or more subscribers to the presence information such as the entity associated with the presence profile, another party to the communication, another authorized principal, etc. | 06-16-2011 |
20110194676 | Personalized Alert Information Available by Telephonic Device - Techniques for notifying a customer of a financial institution about an alert message over a communication device are disclosed. Upon contacting an alert message center of the financial institution, the customer is presented with a notification of alert messages and may choose what action to take with respect to each alert message. The customer may respond to those issues that the customer deems important enough to warrant immediate attention without having to also sort through numerous other issues that the customer does not wish to address at the time. The alert message center collects and sorts alert messages for presentation to the customer according to various customer preferences that are updated and stored by the alert message center. | 08-11-2011 |
20110222673 | INDICATORS FOR VOICEMAILS - Methods and systems to examine, in one embodiment, content of a voicemail to determine whether the voicemail is message-less. An indicator that indicates the voicemail is message-less can be presented in response to determining that the voicemail is message-less. A method in an embodiment can be performed on either a client system or on a voicemail server. In another embodiment, a method can determine whether a length of the content of a voicemail is less than a period of time and can display an indicator that the voicemail has either no content or is very short. | 09-15-2011 |
20110255672 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Notifications - Methods, systems, and products provide voicemail notifications. A first notification is received that indicates a caller has recorded a voicemail. In response to the first notification, the caller's communication log is updated to indicate that the voicemail was recorded. A second notification is received that indicates the recipient retrieved the voicemail. In response to the second notification, the caller's communication log is updated to indicate that the voicemail has been played. When the recipient listens to the voicemail, the communication log thus informs the caller. | 10-20-2011 |
20110261933 | Intelligent Interactive Automated Notification System - A method and system are disclosed for intelligently notifying first parties via automated telephone calls regarding an absence by second parties at an event with minimal burden on a third party who manages attendance issues for the event. In a preferred embodiment, the event is a school session, the second parties are students who are supposed to attend the school session, the first parties are guardians for the students, and the third party is a school employee who handles attendance issues. Differentiated notifications are provided to first parties based on whether the first parties receive the notifications in person or in absentia. The first parties are also provided with opportunities for responding to the notifications while avoiding direct interactions with the third party. | 10-27-2011 |
20110261934 | BROADCASTING VOICEMAIL REPLIES - A messaging device may include a memory configured to store a first message from a first caller and intended for a called party and to store information identifying a group that includes a number of broadcast parties that include the first caller. The messaging device may include a processor configured to receive a reply message from the called party and to broadcast the reply message to at least a subset of the group. | 10-27-2011 |
20110299668 | Access mediation with presence aware call purpose announcements - A system and method for providing a context aware call purpose announcement is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a telephone call from a calling party to a called party on a digital telephony network. An operational state of the called party's telephone is identified. The calling party is enabled to create a custom message for the called party when the operational state of the called party's telephone is identified as busy. The custom message is delivered to the called party through the digital telephony network to enable the called party to determine whether to receive the telephone call from the calling party. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299669 | System and Method for Email Notification - Email subscribers are notified of the receipt of new email messages when they are not at their computers via voice or page. An email notification server polls the email server corresponding to the subscriber's email account for the presence of new email messages. New email messages are obtained. Header information is extracted. If new email notification is by voicemail, the extracted header information is converted from text to voice. A voicemail message containing the extracted header information is saved on the voicemail system corresponding to the subscriber for whom the email message was intended. The email notification server can also send a page to notify the subscriber of the presence of new email. | 12-08-2011 |
20120134480 | CONTEXTUAL CONVERSATION PROCESSING IN TELECOMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS - A method for generating a ring tone for a given caller based on a prior conversation with that caller. A portion of a conversation with a given caller is recorded and stored in memory as a ring tone. When a subsequent call is received from the same caller, identified by caller ID, the ring tone is played, alerting the user to the incoming call as well as the context of their prior communication. In alternative embodiments of the invention, a prior textual or video conversation is used as the basis for a ring tone, and/or the ‘ring tone’ is delivered by other than audio means. The invention is capable of implementation in telecommunications systems such as cellular, local exchange, and VOIP, and in combination with other forms of internet-based telecommunication. | 05-31-2012 |
20120148033 | PROPAGATING USER STATUS INFORMATION ACROSS COMPUTING RESOURCES - The subject matter of this disclosure can be implemented in, among other things, a device that includes processors, means for receiving a voicemail greeting template having a default portion and a placeholder portion, wherein the default portion is included in voicemail greetings generated based on the voicemail greeting template, and a user status propagation module executable by the one or more processors. In these examples, the user status propagation module receives status information for a user or a device, wherein the status information includes a state of the user or a state of the device, and replaces the placeholder portion of the voicemail greeting template with the received status information to generate a personalized voicemail greeting of the user that includes the default portion and the received status information, wherein output of the personalized voicemail greeting is initiated in response to an incoming phone call. | 06-14-2012 |
20120163566 | CALL SCREENING FOR VOICEMAIL - Allowing a user of a communication device to have real-time control as a voicemail is being generated is provided. An incoming call to a communication device may be sent to voicemail; however, rather than waiting for the message to be deposited into the voicemail system followed by subsequent retrieval, a user of the called communication device/called party may have an option to listen to the message as it is being created and stored. During the process of listening in on the message being deposited in the voicemail system, the user/called party may have options in real-time to take the call, ignore the call, listen to the call, and the like. Alternatively, the user/called party may take the call (answer) as the voicemail is being deposited without listening in on the voicemail as it is being deposited. | 06-28-2012 |
20120207288 | PROVIDING MISSED CALL AND MESSAGE INFORMATION - Information associated with messages and/or missed calls is provided to a subscriber. Calls received but not answered by the subscriber may be monitored. Each monitored call is classified as one of a missed call and a message. The monitored calls may be summarized based on a customizable rule set to create a summary. The summary is provided to the subscriber via, for example, a voice notification. | 08-16-2012 |
20120237008 | Message Routing and Determining a Message Recipient in a Unified Messaging System - A sender is identified based at least in part on originator identification information associated with an incoming communication. A message recipient is then determined based at least in part on the identified sender and one or more databases associated with message recipients by comparing the originator identification information to one or more entries in the one or more databases. The incoming communication is routed to the determined message recipient of a shared mailbox of a unified messaging system. An intended recipient is identified among the owners of the shared unified messaging mailbox owners. Only the determined message recipient is notified of the deposited message, based on the dynamic information derived from each deposited message. | 09-20-2012 |
20120300914 | METHOD OF PROVIDING MESSAGE INFORMATION, INCLUDING CALL SUBJECT INFORMATION, TO A RECIPIENT OF A TELEPHONE CALL - A methodology wherein a voice service client application on one or more phones and a voice service server perform a call set-up process through a mix of an external data channel and a normal voice channel that enables call subject information to be effectively provided by a calling party to a called party so that it can be displayed along with other caller ID information. | 11-29-2012 |
20130010937 | Updating Voicemail With Selective Establishment of PDP Contexts and Data Sessions - A method for updating voicemail data at least partially stored at a device can include obtaining a command to update the voicemail data at a device. The device can activate a data session through which voicemail data can be downloaded to the device. In some embodiments, the device can automatically activate a data session upon the occurrence of a trigger event, for example, upon the receipt of a message waiting indicator, or upon powering on the device. In other embodiments, the device can wait for a user action or command to download voicemail data. The action or command can be received at the device after a trigger event, or at any other time. Exemplary devices and communications networks for implementing these and other embodiments are disclosed. | 01-10-2013 |
20130051538 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE MESSAGES TO TELEVISION USERS - Methods and apparatus to provide messages to television users are disclosed. An example method includes determining an identifier associated with a television device in response to detecting a request for a list of voicemail message information, querying a database to determine a voicemail mailbox associated with the identifier, initiating a terminal session in accordance with a remote desktop protocol for the television device, and sending the list of voicemail message information to the television device via the terminal session | 02-28-2013 |
20130083905 | Method for Announcing a Calling Party From a Communication Device - A system and method are disclosed for announcing a calling party from a communication device. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a call processing system can have a controller for processing calls in a communication system. The controller can be programmed to detect an incoming call initiated by a third party communication device over a first voice channel, transmit to a communication device over a control channel a notification signal associated with the incoming call, detect a connection made by the communication device to a second voice channel, transmit to the communication device over the second voice channel audio signals that identify a calling party, and link the first and second voice channels upon detecting over the control channel a call acceptance action by the communication device. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 04-04-2013 |
20130114802 | Voice Message Exchange - Disclosed is a voice message exchange system and method for improving communication between an inmate and a third party by enabling the inmate to leave a message when a call is not answered and further allowing the third party who receives the message to reply with a message to the inmate. Additionally, outside parties that meet the institution's requirements can leave messages for inmates at any time. The present invention can be used as an add-on to legacy inmate call management systems or incorporated internally into an inmate call management system. The system also provides monitoring, controlling, recording, and billing means. | 05-09-2013 |
20130129059 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUICK NOTE MESSAGING - The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for quick note messaging. In one embodiment, a call from a calling party to the communication device is intercepted by a network system. The network system is configured to receive a calling party selection to record a quick note message for a user of the communication device prior to connecting the call. The network system monitors for at least one of a termination of the call by the calling party or a time-out threshold. The network system indicates at the communication device if a quick note message has been received. If the calling party selection to record a quick note message is not received, then the network system is configured to handle call processing normally. | 05-23-2013 |
20130156167 | Voicemail Proxy Server - Methods and systems directed to retrieving voicemails from a voice mailbox server. In particular embodiments, a mailbox server may receive a notification from the voice mailbox server and connect to the voice mailbox server providing the credentials of a client device, and pull new voicemails for storage at the mailbox server. In particular embodiments, mailbox server periodically polls voice mailbox server for new voicemail messages. In particular embodiments, a client device polls or receives notification of new voicemails, and transmits a downloaded message to the mailbox server. | 06-20-2013 |
20130243168 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CALLS - A system and apparatus for managing calls to voice mail is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a voicemail system having a controller element that receives a call redirected away from a targeted communication device without providing the targeted communication device notice of the call responsive to a voicemail redirection request supplied by signaling information associated with the call. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 09-19-2013 |
20140029735 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A VOICEMAIL, RING OR ALERT BEHAVIOR OF A TELEPHONE BASED ON DAY AND TIME - A method and apparatus can be used to determine a voicemail, ring and/or alert behavior of a telephone based on day, time and date. By matching the current day and time against a default set or a user input set of ring/alert behaviors, a telephone can be instructed to ring, not ring, refuse a call, flash a light, vibrate or go directly to one of several voicemail messages upon the event of an incoming call. This allows users to program the phone to not disturb them during inconvenient times, such as a baby's nap time, meal time, or the like. In can also prevent early morning and late evening calls while potentially informing the caller that they should call at a more reasonable hour in the future. | 01-30-2014 |
20140079196 | Visual Voicemail Method for Managing Deleted Messages - A method for managing visual voicemail messages includes displaying a list of voicemail messages on a telecommunications handset, receiving user commands for operating on the voicemail messages including a delete message command and in response to a delete message command, marking a voicemail message for deletion with a delete timestamp and moving the voicemail message to a Deleted Messages folder. A Deleted Message Age Indicator function processes to control permanent deletion of voicemail messages in the Deleted Messages folder based on delete timestamps and a global Delete Time value in cooperation with a visual voicemail platform. | 03-20-2014 |
20140153704 | Systems and Methods for Using Caller Data to Electronically Disseminate A Message - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for using caller data to electronically disseminate a message. In one aspect, a method involves (i) a phone switch receiving a phone call and corresponding caller data, (ii) the phone switch sending to a record manager, the caller data, (iii) the record manager receiving the sent caller data, and (iv) responsive to the record manager receiving the sent caller data, the record manager (a) retrieving from a data storage, a school identifier corresponding to the received caller data, and (b) causing a notification system to electronically disseminate a message, wherein the message indicates that an updated operational-status of a school identified by the retrieved school identifier is expected soon. | 06-05-2014 |
20140169537 | NOTIFICATION TO A COMUNICATION DEVICE THAT A VOICE MAIL RECORDING IS IN PROGRESS - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a notification to a communication device indicating that a voice mail recording from a calling party is in progress. One embodiment comprises a voice mail entity of a communication network. The voice mail entity initiates a recording of a voice mail message from a calling party for a communication device, and provides an alert to the communication device indicating that the recording of the voice mail message is in progress. In another embodiment, the voice mail entity receives a request from the communication device to communicate with the calling party, determines if the recording is in progress, and forwards a call from voice mail entity to the communication device based on a determination that the recording is in progress. | 06-19-2014 |
20140198903 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE SILENCING OF TELEPHONE RINGING - A system and method for a selective ring silencer that prevents people from having to listen to the telephone ring on and on with nuisance calls. The ringer silencer can be: (1) discretely constructed from a telephone, (2) part of a telecommunication device, or (3) part of a central telephone network construction. A receiver demodulates an incoming call. Control logic reads at least a portion of the called identification (CID) data and determines an action based on the reading. A switch in communication with the control logic is actuated to a first state that allows the communication data to be output from the ring silencer, and a second state that blocks the communication data from being output from the ring silencer to a user's communication device. The control logic blocks toll-free area codes originated calls from ringing a user's telephone, optionally forwarding the call to a voice mail module. | 07-17-2014 |
20140270115 | Electronic Message Aggregation and Sharing System and Apparatus - In one aspect of the invention, a communications device is described to include novel software for aggregating voice and other messages from various communications media and presenting the user with a display of same, ordered by medium, date of receipt, source etc. The software also comprises a user-friendly man-machine interface for forwarding the messages from one medium to another, including making such messages available to members of social websites. In a second aspect of the invention, a server computer is described, including software to receive, organize and store said messages in digital form, with the participation of the user's communication device in one mode and automatically without the participation of the user's device in another mode. The server comprises software that generates links to selected stored messages that the user can post on the Web. When such a link is opened by a web browser, the selected message is made available to the browser and the opportunity to display revenue-generating advertisements to all who access the message is simultaneously created. | 09-18-2014 |
20140294164 | MANAGING VISUAL VOICEMAIL FROM MULTIPLE DEVICES - A network device may include a memory to store a database including voicemail message information associated with a voicemail mailbox, a transmitter, and a receiver. The transmitter may send a notification to each of a plurality of communication devices, the notification including an indication of a number of new voicemail messages in the voicemail mailbox, an indication of a total number of voicemail messages in the voicemail mailbox, and an identifier of a most recent voicemail message in the voicemail mailbox, where each of the plurality of communication devices uses the notification signal to determine whether to request a list of voicemail messages. The receiver may receive, from one of the communication devices in response to the notification, a request for the list of voicemail messages associated with voicemail message information stored in the database. The transmitter may sends, to the one of the plurality of communications devices, the list of voicemail messages. | 10-02-2014 |
20140314218 | RECEIPT AND NOTIFICATION OF MESSASGES WITH IMAGE DATA - A method and system is provided for receiving a message containing image data and sending a message to notify of the receipt of the message. The system may have a plurality of access devices which are coupled to each other over a network such as the Internet. These access devices may include computers, workstations, and the like. Upon receipt of a message containing image data, such as facsimile data, a notification of the message may be sent to a recipient, such as a message in the form of an email message or a paging message. The system may be configured based on the specifications of the caller and/or the recipient. | 10-23-2014 |
20140334615 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for Conveying Presence Information Via Voice Mail - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for conveying availability information of a calling party to a called party. A PBX serving the telephones of the calling and called parties is connected to a presence server. In an embodiment of the invention, the presence server is also connected to a computer and/or other information device (such as a personal data assistant or telephone) of the calling party. After the calling party has left a voice mail message for the called party, the called party will subsequently retrieve the message. In an embodiment of the invention, the PBX then queries the presence server as to the availability of the calling party. The presence server senses whether the calling party has indicated his or her presence; if so, it is inferred that the calling party is probably present and available for a return call. If the presence server detects no such indication by the calling party, it is inferred that the calling party is likely to be absent. The presence server responds to the query of the PBX by indicating the calling party's likely availability (or absence) to the PBX. Based on this information, the PBX modifies the voice mail message to include a statement that the calling party is either available or unavailable. | 11-13-2014 |
20140348309 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING A MESSAGE - Systems, methods and devices are provided for communicating a message prior to enabling communication over a communication link between user devices. In one aspect, a method is provided for communicating a message prior to enabling communication over a communication link between a user device and a second user device. The method includes receiving a request to initiate the communication link from the second user device, causing a notification of the request to initiate the communication link to be generated at the user device, receiving an acknowledgement from a user of the user device that the notification has been received, causing a message to be communicated to the user of the user device, receiving a user initiated acknowledgement from the user of the user device that the message has completed, and enabling communication between the users of the user device and second user device upon receipt of the user initiated acknowledgement. | 11-27-2014 |
20150023483 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL MESSAGING - A method and apparatus of providing virtual messaging is provided. The method comprises examining status information associated with a plurality of servers for notifying call recipients of messages using at least one messaging protocol, wherein each of the plurality of servers operates independently, identifying an available server of the plurality of servers, based on the status information, for handling a message and directing an incoming call to the available server, wherein the available server stores the message until communication of the message to at least one call recipient, wherein the available server communicates at least one notification message associated with the message to at least one telephone number of the at least one call recipient, wherein the at least one notification message comprises a telephone number associated with the call origination device and a message link number for communicating with the available server. | 01-22-2015 |
20150326711 | CONNECTING TO A RETURN CALL - For connecting to a return call, a calling electronic device identifies a return call from a called number during communication with a voice messaging system associated with the called number. In addition, the calling electronic device connects to the return call. | 11-12-2015 |
20160088159 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TELECOMMUNICATION - Disclosed is a method for telecommunication using a system in which individual journal entries and/or voice mail messages for each user are stored. Each time a user initiates or receives a call the system verifies whether specific journal entries and/or voice mail messages are stored for the respective user and the system presents in case of said specific entries or messages an output to the user to inform the user that said specific entries or messages have been verified or found. | 03-24-2016 |
20160150088 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Notifications - A voicemail notification indicates a caller has recorded a voicemail. The voicemail notification may be sent to any destination, such as a caller's device. The voicemail notification may be displayed in a communication log to visually indicate that the voicemail was recorded. A different notification may be sent and displayed to indicate the recipient retrieved the voicemail. | 05-26-2016 |