Integrated Visual Voicemail Communications
AssigneeAT&T Mobility II LLC
InventorsVenson M. Shaw, Gholam-Reza Rahsaz
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Abstract
A single visual voicemail communications session is established and used to provide various content to a visual voicemail client on a wireless device. Rather than requiring the establishment of multiple communications session in order to obtain messaging, multimedia, and other content types associated with a voicemail at a wireless device, all such content is obtained or accessed by a voicemail server and transmitted to the wireless device. The wireless device can provide visual voicemail client data to a voicemail server, enabling the voicemail server to modify content as needed so that it is compatible with the wireless device.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- determining that a visual voicemail for a wireless device is available to a server, the visual voicemail including a first content and an indicator of a location of a second content;
- obtaining, at the server, the second content from the location;
- facilitating establishment of a single transmission control protocol session between the server and the wireless device;
- and
- formatting the first content and the second content for transmission to the wireless device via the single transmission protocol session.
A computer-readable storage medium that is not a propagating signal, the computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that cause a processor executing the instructions to effectuate operations, the operations comprising:
- determining that a visual voicemail for a wireless device is available to a server, the visual voicemail including a first content and an indicator of a location of a second content;
- causing the server to obtain the second content from the location;
- facilitating establishment of a single transmission control protocol session between the server and the wireless device;
- and
- formatting the first content and the second content for transmission via the single transmission protocol session.
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions that cause the processor to effectuate operations, the operations comprising:
- determining that a visual voicemail for a wireless device is available, the visual voicemail including a first content and an indicator of a location of a second content;
- obtaining the second content from the location;
- facilitating establishment of a single transmission control protocol session between the server and the wireless device;
- and
- formatting, by the server, the first content and the second content for transmission via the single transmission protocol session.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.