Direct voicemail call service
OwnerZhihong Guo, Shi Jiaoinventors
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Methods, systems, computer programs, and computer-readable media to provide users with a direct-call-to-voicemail service are described. A direct-call-to-voicemail system includes a caller's user equipment, a proxy server, and a voicemail server for recording voice messages for a callee. The caller's user equipment sends the proxy server a call set-up request comprising information indicating a request by the caller to record a voicemail directly on the voicemail server serving the callee. The proxy server, responsive to discriminating the information indicating a request for direct recording of a voice message, retrieves callee status information, and, responsive to discriminating direct-voicemail authorization data in the retrieved callee status information, sets up a communication session between the caller's user equipment and the voicemail server, to enable recording of the voice message.
A computer-implemented method to directly record a voice message, said method being implemented by a proxy server, the method comprising:
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A proxy server configured to enable direct recording of voicemail messages, the proxy server comprising:
User equipment to enable direct recording of a voice message for a callee, the user equipment comprising a processing unit configured to:
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