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US 2003/0119487 A1Published application
Method and appparatus for providing a wireless communication device with local audio signal storage
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorKelan C. Silvester
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Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a cell phone is integrated with an answering machine. Messages received by the answering machine may be locally stored in a nonvolatile memory region for later retrieval by a user. In addition, for one embodiment, a message may be remotely retrieved by the user by calling the cell phone. For one embodiment, the incoming call may be screened by the user.
Claims18
A system comprising:
- a cell phone;
- an answering machine integrated with the cell phone;
- and
- a nonvolatile memory region to store an audio signal of an incoming call answered by the answering machine.
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A method comprising:
- providing a cell phone with an integrated answering machine;
- and
- enabling a user of the cell phone to screen an incoming call.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- an antenna;
- and
- a memory region including instructions that, if executed by the processor, cause the system to receive an incoming call via the antenna, answer the call with a prerecorded greeting, and store an audio signal of the incoming call in the memory region.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.