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US 2003/0152203 A1Published application
Message accessing
OwnerAdam L. Berger, Vincent Brozinventors
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Abstract
A request to retrieve a message directed to the user receiving from a user at an electronic device. The message has one of at least two different presentation modes by which it may be revealed to the user at the electronic device. The message is retrieved using one of at least two different communication networks depending on a presentation mode by which the message may be revealed.
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A method comprising
- enabling a user of a wireless phone to make successive selections of messages from a list of messages displayed on the phone, the list including both voice messages and text messages, the selections including voice messages and text messages in any arbitrary order, and
- without requiring any different action by the user, switching back and forth between responding to selections of voice messages by audibly playing back the messages to the user and responding to selections of text messages by displaying at least portions of the messages.
A method comprising
- in response to a user selecting a voice message identified on a display of a wireless phone, automatically initiating a call to a voice message system on which the voice message is stored, having the voice message system authenticate the call, and receiving an audibly played back version of the voice message from the voice message system.
A method comprising
- at a wireless phone, enabling a user to invoke links associated with voice messages and non-voice messages to be retrieved, the links being displayed to the user, and
- at the wireless phone, switching automatically between responding to invocation of a voice message link by dialing a telephone number associated with the link, and responding to invocation of a non-voice message link in a manner other than dialing a telephone number.
A method comprising
- at a wireless phone, in response to selection by a user of a voice message to be retrieved, dialing a string that includes a phone number of a voice message system and digits that are sufficient to enable the voice message system server to identify the user and the selected message.
A method comprising
- at a wireless phone, receiving data that (a) identifies a remotely stored message belonging to a user of the phone and (b) includes information that (i) associates the message with the user and (ii) is encoded to restrict unauthorized access by others, and
- in response to a request by the user for retrieval of the message, returning the encoded information to a server for use in authentication.
A method comprising
- receiving from a user at an electronic device a request to retrieve a message directed to the user, the message having one of at least two different presentation modes by which it may be revealed to the user at the electronic device, and
- retrieving the message using one of at least two different communication networks depending on a presentation mode by which the message may be revealed.
A method comprising
- informing a user of an electronic device of messages that are available for retrieval, each of the messages having one of at least two different presentation modes by which it may be revealed to the user at the electronic device, and
- receiving from the user a selection of one of the messages to be retrieved, the selection being made in a manner that is unrelated the presentation mode by which it may be revealed,
- revealing the message to the user in its presentation mode,
- receiving from the user a selection of another one of the messages to be retrieved, the selection being made in a manner that is unrelated the presentation mode by which the other message may be revealed, and
- revealing the other message to the user in its presentation mode.
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A method comprising
- providing to an electronic device, information that is configured to enable the electronic device:
- to retrieve messages using at least two different communication networks depending on a presentation mode by which each of the messages may be revealed, the electronic device being enabled to a request for a message, and
- to enable a user to select messages in a manner that is unrelated to the presentation mode by which the messages may be revealed.
A method comprising
- enabling a user of an electronic device to make a selection of a message to be retrieved from a message server,
- in response to the selection, issuing a string of characters that includes
- a phone number that is associated with the message and is capable of causing the electronic device to execute a phone call to the server, and
- a character string that identifies the user and enables the server to authenticate the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.