Product, method and system for enhanced voicemail management
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorRuthie D. Lyle
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Abstract
The invention discloses enhanced voicemail system management through user-defined “access rules” that can be modified by a telephone account owner to provide permission and/or set a time duration for recording a message left by an incoming caller.
Claims12
A system comprised of voice communication components configured to allow a voicemail user to control access for recording a message by executing at least the following modifiable instructions:
- (a). permission rules configured for selecting one or more incoming calls authorized to leave messages;
- or
- (b). duration rules configured to set a time limit for recording a message left in an authorized call;
- wherein individual incoming calls are handled automatically by the voicemail system according to the rules set by the user.
A method of using a system comprised of voice communication components configured to allow a voicemail user to control access for recording a message by carrying out at least the following steps for executing the following modifiable instructions:
- (a). configuring permission rules for selecting one or more incoming calls authorized to leave messages;
- or
- (b). configuring duration rules to set a time limit for recording a message left in an authorized call;
- wherein individual incoming calls are handled automatically by the voicemail system according to the rules set by the user.
A voice communication product comprised of components configured to allow a voicemail user to control access for recording a message by executing at least the following modifiable instructions:
- (a). permission rules configured for selecting one or more incoming calls authorized to leave messages;
- or
- (b). duration rules configured to set a time limit for recording a message left in an authorized call;
- wherein individual incoming calls are handled automatically by the voicemail system according to the rules set by the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.