Voice mail apparatus and method of processing voice mail

A voice mail apparatus comprising:

• a memory to store received digitized voice in a voice mail sent from a sender, and wherein the memory further stores at least one voice response message of a recipient of the voice mail;
• an identifier to identify a proper sender number attached to the voice mail that contains the digitized voice, the sender number corresponding to the sender that has sent the digitized voice;
• an e-mail transmitter to send an e-mail from the recipient to the sender;
• a table that provides a correspondence between a plurality of e-mail addresses and a plurality of proper sender numbers, respectively;
• and
• a control unit configured to control operation of the voice mail apparatus,
• wherein the digitized voice is stored at a particular memory address that is assigned to the sender within the memory, based on the identification of the sender number as performed by the identifier,
• wherein the table is accessed to allow a recipient of the digitized voice to send an e-mail response to the corresponding e-mail address of the sender,
• wherein the control unit obtains the at least one voice response message of the recipient from the memory, attaches the at least one voice response message to an e-mail to be sent to the corresponding e-mail address of the sender, and provides the e-mail to the e-mail transmitter to be output to the sender,
• wherein the e-mail is capable of being opened by the sender so that the sender can review the at least one voice response message of the recipient, by the sender opening the e-mail attachment and reviewing the at least one voice response message, and
• wherein the sender number corresponds to a telephone set of the sender.

A method of processing voice mail comprising the steps of:

• storing in a memory, at least one voice response message from a recipient;
• storing, in the memory, a digitized voice sent from a sender to the recipient;
• identifying the sender of the digitized voice upon obtaining the digitized voice from the memory, the identifying being performed based on a sender number corresponding to the sender that is attached to the digitized voice;
• storing, based on the sender number, the digital voice at a particular memory address within the memory, the particular memory address being assigned to the sender;
• performing retrieval of a table to find an e-mail address of the sender so as to allow a recipient of the digitized voice to respond to the sender, the retrieval being based on the sender number;
• and
• obtaining the at least one voice reply message from the memory and attaching the at least one voice reply message to an e-mail to be sent to the e-mail address of the sender,
• wherein the table provides a correspondence between a plurality of e-mail addresses and a plurality of sender numbers,
• wherein the e-mail is capable of being opened by the sender so that the sender can review the at least one voice response message of the recipient, by the sender opening the e-mail attachment and reviewing the at least one voice response message, and
• wherein the sender number corresponds to a telephone set of the sender.

A method of processing voice mail comprising the steps of:

• storing in a memory, at least one voice response message from a recipient;
• storing, in the memory, a digitized voice sent from a sender to the recipient;
• identifying the sender of the digitized voice upon obtaining the digitized voice from the memory, the identifying being performed based on a proper number corresponding to the sender that is attached to the digitized voice;
• storing, based on the proper number, the digital voice at a particular memory address within the memory, the particular memory address being assigned to the sender;
• performing retrieval of a table to find an e-mail address corresponding to the proper number so as to allow a recipient of the digitized voice to respond to the sender, the retrieval being based on the sender number;
• and
• obtaining the at least one voice reply message from the memory and attaching the at least one voice reply message to an e-mail to be sent to the e-mail address of the sender,
• wherein the table provides a correspondence between a plurality of e-mail addresses and a plurality of proper numbers,
• wherein the e-mail is capable of being opened by the sender so that the sender can review the at least one voice response message of the recipient, by the sender opening the e-mail attachment and reviewing the at least one voice response message, and
• wherein the sender number corresponds to a telephone set of the sender.