Delivery Of Visual Voice Mail
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorVenson M. Shaw
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Abstract
Delivery of a text message and/or voice mail message may include identifying a recipient of the message, receiving a notification indicative of one of the subscriber's availability, the subscriber's presence and the subscriber's location, recording the message, selectively converting a voice mail message to a text message based on the notification, and delivering either the text message or the voice mail message to a device of the recipient based on the notification. The text message and/or voice mail message may be delivered via a map, wherein selection of a location on the map may retrieve the text message and/or voice mail message.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- determining that a sender has generated a voice mail message;
- generating a first map including an indicator of a geographic location associated with the voice mail message;
- and
- providing the first map to a first recipient, wherein, in response to selecting, by the first recipient, the indicator, a first message is retrieved, wherein the message is based on the voice mail message.
A method comprising:
- transcribing a voice mail message;
- identifying a plurality of recipients associated with the voice mail message;
- for each of the plurality of recipients, determining a preferred message mode;
- based on a respective preferred message mode associated with each of the plurality of recipients, providing to the respective recipient at least one of the transcribed voice mail message or audio associated with the voice mail message.
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising computer readable instructions that cause the processor executing the instructions to effectuate operations comprising:
- determining that a sender has generated a voice mail message;
- generating a map including an indicator of a geographic location associated with the voice mail message;
- and
- providing the map to a recipient, wherein, in response to selecting, by the recipient, the first map location, the voice mail message is retrieved.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.