Enhanced scheduled messaging system
AssigneeBellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
InventorKelly Jenkins
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Abstract
Systems and techniques for communicating by receiving data and instructions from a sender, the instructions including at least a delivery time of a scheduled voicemail message intended for a recipient and contact information associated with the recipient; generating a scheduled voicemail message according to the data and instructions received from the sender; storing the scheduled voicemail message; and processing the scheduled voicemail message according to the data and instructions received from the sender.
Claims27
A communications method, comprising:
- receiving data and instructions from a sender, the instructions including at least a delivery time of a scheduled voicemail message intended for a recipient and contact information associated with the recipient;
- generating a scheduled voicemail message according to the data and instructions received from the sender;
- storing the scheduled voicemail message;
- processing the scheduled voicemail message according to the data and instructions received from the sender;
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- sending a reminder to the sender as the scheduled delivery time for a particular scheduled voicemail message approaches.
A communications system, comprising a network apparatus configured to:
- receive data and instructions from a sender, the instructions including at least a delivery time of a scheduled voicemail message intended fur a recipient and contact information associated with the recipient;
- generate a scheduled voicemail message according to the data and instructions received from the sender;
- store the scheduled voicemail message;
- process the scheduled voicemail message according to the data and instructions received from the sender to store the voicemail message in an area of the voice mailbox of the recipient that is designated for scheduled voicemail messages and to provide a notification to the recipient at the time the voicemail message is scheduled for delivery;
- receive a request from the recipient to render the voicemail in response to the recipient receiving the notification;
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- deliver the voicemail message from the designated area of the voice mailbox of the recipient to the recipient upon receiving the request from the recipient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.