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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175233 | Distributed cache system An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types,... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7443961 | Provisioning unified messaging system services In a particular embodiment, a method includes providing a messaging service using a messaging system. The messaging system includes a centralized Internet Protocol switching network, an Internet access subsystem, a voice access subsystem, a mail subsystem and a stor... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7349532 | Picture and video message center system A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342917 | Multimedia personalized call management (MPCM) The present invention provides methods and systems for managing a call based on multimedia data. According to one embodiment, the invention provides a method for managing a call. The method includes receiving first data related to a call sent by a calling party to a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7310416 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A system for adding or updating contact data in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown. Contact data associated with actual or potential communicants may be entered into a database in the wireless comm... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305076 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system A wireless information communication system and method, such as a paging network, that provides caller identification information transmitted from the public switched telephone network to a pager, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a portable computing device, or per... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292681 | Technique and an apparatus for producing postcards having an audio message for playback by recipient A system having a postcard having a thickness not to exceed 5.5 mm while containing an audio message for playback and a power supply, the system also having a base recording unit for recording a message to the postcard when the postcard is inserted into the base rec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286658 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A method for use in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown in which Caller ID data originating from the public switched telephone network or other caller identifying data is received in a paging signal... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7266186 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system Contact data in a phonebook database for a personal communication device are remotely updateable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a wireless radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are inpu... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257210 | Picture phone with caller id Pictures are transmitted to a wireless picture phone with caller ID from a message originator and used by the message recipient to identify who is to sending the picture. In one embodiment the pictures are sent to a message center along with the caller ID of the mes... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254223 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251318 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems An apparatus and method provide a database in a pager that contains menus that may be displayed on a pager display. A paging service sends a page including an identification, retrieves a menu from the pager database and displays the menu. The pager responds to the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7209551 | Provisioning unified messaging system services In a particular embodiment, a method of assigning identifications for unified messaging system subscribers is provided. The method includes assigning a unique temporary identity to a subscriber of a unified messaging service and upon the subscriber's first access to... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7065182 | Voice mail message repositioning device A voice message repositioning process is provided for a voice message system that stores voice messages for a user of the system and provides feedback to the user of the progress of repositioning the playback of a voice message. A voice message is repositioned upon ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7010288 | System and method for providing an automatic response to a telephone call Disclosed embodiments include a system and method for providing an automatic response to a telephone call. The automatic response module may be integral to a wireless phone or may be added afterwards, such as with a plug-in module, or may be provided by a third part... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003083 | Selectable audio and mixed background sound for voice messaging system Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by selectably mixing one or more sound files with a telephone caller's voice message, either as background for that message or embedded within the message. Or, the mixing may occur within a t... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003319 | Data carrier system A cellular telephone (102) in a vehicle includes a data carrier system comprising a first semi-permanent Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) (200) selectively couplable to the cellular telephone (102) and a second SIM (300) selectively coupl... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999752 | Portable telephone and music reproducing method A portable telephone having music playback functions has a first storage for storing music data of plural musical tunes and a second storage (namely, a cache memory) for storing at least one musical tune to be reproduced. A musical tune that may be likely to be repr... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6993324 | Systems and methods for audio reminder messages Systems and methods use mobile telephones as input devices for recording audio messages on a server. A user inputs a first feature code into the mobile telephone and the feature code is sent to a mobile switching center (MSC). The MSC maps the feature code to a serv... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6954517 | Multiple service announcement method A method for providing multiple calling service announcements on a single circuit card within a telephone network. The method reduces the number of stored speech files necessary to generate announcements regarding a calling service such as Automatic Call Back or Enh... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6912271 | Personalized recorded message via message delivery system Message delivery system primarily for answering machines which provides a realistic sounding recorded message containing an individualized personal greeting which can be delivered onto one or more answering machines. This automated method of delivering a recorded pe... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6757366 | Voice messaging system having removable digital voice message memory A voice messaging system includes an externally accessible interface for accepting a removable digital memory card for storage of received voice messages. The removable digital memory card may be removed from the voice messaging system to archive previously recorded... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754547 | Data reproduction circuit and voice recording reproduction apparatus comprising the circuit A voice recording-reproduction apparatus including a microphone, speaker, voice recording-reproduction circuit, recording medium, key input device and control circuit. The circuit is adapted to prepare a plurality of folders on the recording medium and to perform a ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6483901 | Non-volatile memory platform for digital answering systems A memory management method for a digital answering system having a non-volatile memory, e.g., flash memory, for storing files of audio messages. In accordance with the method, a first portion of the memory is dedicated for the storage of file information,... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6442246 | Multiple service announcement method A method for providing multiple calling service announcements on a single circuit card within a telephone network. The method reduces the number of stored speech files necessary to generate announcements regarding a calling service such as Automatic Call ... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6377794 | Communication apparatus notifying calling information to called party A communication apparatus includes an antenna, a TDMA/TDD processing unit, a radio unit provided between the antenna and the TDMA/TDD processing unit for data transfer, a telephone directory memory that stores a plurality of telephone numbers divided into... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6356626 | Point to point voice message processor, method and recording/playback device A voice message processor is disclosed for producing remote voice recordings in a decentralized, non-networked environment. Connections are provided for a communication link capable of transmitting and receiving calls over a public communication network, ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6275569 | Circular memory addressing option for audio messages In a digital voice messaging system, a circular message storage selection is added to allow the digital voice messaging system to automatically overwrite previously-stored, e.g., the oldest messages in voice memory as necessary for storage of the newest v... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6259773 | Telephone apparatus with recording and reproduction functions A telephone apparatus is disclosed which includes a communication circuit (10) including a microphone (15) and a speaker (14) for providing communication between an operator and a network and outputting sound data from the sound receiving unit and the net... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6233320 | Method and apparatus for recording and playing back a conversation using a digital wireless phone A wireless telephone with record and playback capability is disclosed. The telephone has an operation module, which transmits near-end signals and receives far-end signals, and a record module which writes transmission packets formed from the near-end sig... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6215860 | Elastic buffer for data storage with speech data A digital answering machine, electronic voice mail system, or any other voice messaging system integrating both non-speech data such as caller ID information or graphical or pictorial images together with associated speech data in common memory such that ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6201857 | Combination telephone and voice-mail transceiver A telephone control unit 12 allows the calling party to optionally select either a standard telephone call or a voice-mail transmission. If a voice-mail message is selected, the system allows the user to dictate the message which is then analog-to-digital... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6125175 | Method and apparatus for inserting background sound in a telephone call A system inserts one or more background sounds in a telephone call between a calling party and a called party. The system includes a network node coupled to a first telephone used by the calling party and a second telephone used by the called party. The n... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6085281 | Method and a device for performing a flash EEPROM An initiating processing unit is normally occupied during the programming of flash EEPROMs. The time of occupation becomes ever longer with increasing age and degree of utilization of the flash EEPROMs. Here, the processing unit uses an initiatable interr... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6075844 | Messaging system with remote messaging recording device where the message is routed based on the spoken name of the recipient A messaging system with a remote message recording device is provided. To compose and send a message to an intended recipient, the sending party remotely records a spoken message on a recording device. When recording the message, the sending party adds a ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6064877 | Portable radio terminal If a user attempts to provide a protection attribute to a new message while the number of old messages which have a protection attribute and are retained is equal to the maximum number of protected messages, a portable radio terminal, such as a pager syst... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6035018 | Access, selection, and downloading of a pre-recorded outgoing greeting message for a voice messaging system from an external source A telephone voice messaging system and method for accessing, selecting, and downloading a pre-recorded outgoing voice message from an external source. The pre-recorded outgoing greeting messages may be downloaded in digital format using a modem, or in aud... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6029063 | Voice scratchpad implemented with wireless telephone A voice scratchpad implemented in a wireless telephone allows the user to record important information gathered during a phone conversation. The wireless telephone includes signal processing means and memory means for recording at least one message or mem... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6011832 | Multiple service announcement system and method A method for providing multiple calling service announcements on a single circuit card within a telephone network. The method reduces the number of stored speech files necessary to generate announcements regarding a calling service such as Automatic Call ... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5963617 | Method for transferring registered speech message from automatic telephone answering system at a reserved time A method for transferring a speech message registered by a user from an automatic telephone answering system at a reserved time wherein the reserved time and speech message are registered along with a telephone number so that the registered speech message... | 10/05/1999 |
