Method for trimming and/or replacing a portion of a received voice message

A method with performance by a user of a wireless voice messaging unit having a solid-state memory with incoming messages stored therein, the method comprising steps of:

• determining whether a stored incoming message needs to be replayed;
• if the stored incoming message does not need to be replayed, creating a replacement message shorter in length than the stored incoming message and including information contained in the stored message;
• if the stored incoming message needs to be replayed, replaying the stored incoming message for audition by the user of the wireless voice messaging unit;
• creating the replacement message shorter in length than the stored incoming message that was replayed and including information contained in the stored message;
• recording the replacement message by storing the replacement message in the solid-state memory;
• replaying the recorded replacement message from the solid-state memory:
• determining whether the replayed replacement message is acceptable;
• and
• upon determining an acceptable replacement message replacing the stored message with the replacement message in the solid-state memory.

Apparatus for storing messages in a wireless voice messaging unit, the apparatus comprising:

• means for receiving an incoming message;
• a solid-state semiconductor memory for storing the received incoming message therein;
• means connected to said memory for reading out a stored message from said memory and reproducing the incoming message for audition by a user of the wireless voice messaging unit;
• switch means for marking in said memory a trimming beginning point and a trimming ending point of the stored message and forming a trimmed message as a portion of the stored message;
• and
• means connected to said memory and said switch means for replacing in said memory said stored message by said trimmed message.