Internet telephony system with automated call answering
AssigneeMCI Communications Corporation
InventorTimothy Culver
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Abstract
A system and method for automatically answering a call from a calling party to a called party that originates via the Internet, includes and involves a data storage system and processor that is coupled to the data storage system. The processor is operative to initiate an automated call answering service in response to an Internet telephony call from the calling party which is intended to be received by the called party, to receive a message from the calling party via the Internet in accordance with the automated call answering service, and to store the message in the data storage system for processing by the processor in accordance with the automated call answering service.
Claims2
A system for automatically answering a call from a calling party to a called party that originates via the Internet, comprising:
- a data storage system;
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- a processor coupled to said data storage system, said processor operative to receive, during said call, a message from said calling party via the Internet, and to store said message in said data storage system for retrieval by said called party via the Internet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.