Internet/intranet user interface to a multimedia messaging system
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsGordon R. Brunson, Robert M. Klein
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Abstract
An Internet/intranet-based arrangement for interaction between a messaging system and a message originator and delivery of the message originator's message to a mailbox of the messaging system uses TCP/IP communications applications such as HTTP, Telnet, FTP, or Chat as information-transfer and message delivery mechanisms, creating an Internet/intranet-based text, binary, video, and/or multimedia file message-delivery analogue to the call-answer message-creation capability of telephony-based messaging systems.
Claims11
A method of messaging in a communications system comprising a user terminal and a messaging system interconnected by an Internet/intranet, comprising the steps of:
- sending a request identifying a subscriber of the messaging system from the user terminal via the Internet/intranet to the messaging system;
- in response to receipt of the request at the messaging system, sending subscriber information corresponding to the identified subscriber from the messaging system via the Internet/intranet to the terminal;
- in response to receipt of the sent subscriber information at the terminal, presenting the sent subscriber information to a user of the terminal;
- in response to the user providing message information at the terminal, sending the message information from the terminal via the Internet/intranet to the messaging system;
- in response to receipt of the sent message information at the messaging system, composing the message information into a message of the messaging system;
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- storing the message in the messaging system in a mailbox of the identified subscriber.
A method of messaging in a communications system comprising a user terminal that includes a Web browser and a multimedia messaging system, both interfaced to and interconnected by an Internet/intranet, comprising the steps of:
- in response to a prompt from a user of the terminal, the Web browser sending from the terminal a request addressed to an Internet/intranet address of the messaging system and identifying by at least one of name and telephone number a subscriber of the messaging system, and including an Internet/intranet address of the terminal;
- In response to receipt of the request at the messaging system, determining a subscriber identifier of the subscriber within the messaging system;
- in response to a determination of the subscriber identifier, retrieving stored subscriber information associated with the subscriber identifier from the messaging system;
- in response to the retrieval, composing a Web home page for the subscriber from the retrieved subscriber information, the Web home page including a return address of the messaging system, the subscriber identifier of the subscriber, and space for message information from the user;
- in response to the composing, sending the subscriber's Web page addressed to the Internet/intranet address of the terminal;
- in response to receipt of the subscriber's Web page at the terminal, the Web browser presenting the subscriber's Web page to the user;
- in response to receiving message information from the user in said space in the Web page and a prompt from the user, the Web browser sending from the terminal the message information, subscriber identifier of the subscriber, and the Internet/intranet address of the terminal, addressed to the return address of the messaging system;
- in response to receipt of the message information at the messaging system, formatting the messaging information into a message of the messaging system;
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- in response to receipt of the subscriber identifier of the subscriber at the messaging system, storing the message in a mailbox of the subscriber in the messaging system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.