Voice message recovery system and method
AssigneeDictaphone Corporation
InventorsSimon L. Howes, Regina J. Kuhnen
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Abstract
This invention relates to a communication system and method wherein messages are transmitted and stored in voice mail boxes. The system and method provide the ability on the part of an author to recover a message before access to the message by a recipient. This allows the author to recoup a message in case the message is sent accidentally to the wrong recipient or the message has been sent to a recipient who no longer has access to the message.
Claims5
A voice processing system comprising:
- means for generating a voice message,
- voice mailbox means having a pending section and an accessible section in communication with said voice message generating means,
- means for storing a voice message in said pending section,
- means for logging onto said voice mailbox and transferring a voice message in said pending section to said accessible section,
- means for deleting a message in said pending section through said voice message generating means if said voice message had not been transferred to said accessible section.
A voice processing system for a plurality of subscribers, comprising:
- a) a dictation station,
- b) a message analyzer in communication with said dictation station,
- c) a voice message store in communication with said message analyzer,
- d) a message controller in communication with said voice message store,
- e) a subscriber voice message store having a voice mailbox with a pending section and an accessible section, and
- f) means for transferring a voice message in said pending section to said accessible section.
In a method of voice processing using a voice message delivery system having a plurality of voice mailboxes, the steps comprising:
- a) creating a recipient's pending section in each of said voice mailboxes,
- b) generating a voice message,
- c) identifying the sender of the voice message,
- d) identifying the recipient of the voice message,
- e) storing the voice message in a recipient's pending section of a voice mailbox,
- f) allowing the sender to retrieve a voice message from the recipient's pending section,
- g) transferring a voice message from the recipient's pending section to an accessible section of the recipient's voice mailbox upon the recipient accessing his voice mailbox, and
- h) denying access of a voice message to the sender after transfer of the voice message to the recipient's accessible section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.