Voicemail with data content
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorsWinston Wang, Adam Holt
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Abstract
Techniques for attaching content to a voicemail are described. Content may be attached to a voicemail by storing the content and the voicemail in a common container or envelope, embedding the content at a location within the voicemail, tagging the content with an identifier identifying the voicemail, tagging the voicemail with a tag identifying the content and a location of the content on a network, or otherwise associating the content with the voicemail. A representation of the content to be attached to the voicemail may be visually displayed on a user interface of an originating telecommunications device before attaching the content to the voicemail.
Claims15
One or more tangible computer-readable media stored with instructions that, when executed by a processor of a recipient device, perform acts comprising:
- receiving a voicemail greeting associated with a voice mailbox of a user of a called device;
- presenting, on a display of the recipient device, a user interface usable to access the voice mailbox;
- presenting the voicemail greeting on the recipient device;
- and
- visually displaying content attached to the voicemail greeting on the user interface.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a recipient device, a voicemail greeting associated with a voice mailbox of a user of a called device;
- presenting, by the recipient device, on a display of the recipient device, a user interface usable to access the voice mailbox;
- presenting, by the recipient device, the voicemail greeting on the recipient device;
- and
- visually displaying, by the recipient device, content attached to the voicemail greeting on the user interface.
A recipient device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a plurality of computing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the recipient device to perform operations including:
- receiving a voicemail greeting associated with a voice mailbox of a user of a called device,
- presenting, on a display of the recipient device, a user interface usable to access the voice mailbox,
- presenting the voicemail greeting on the recipient device, and
- visually displaying, by the recipient device, content attached to the voicemail greeting on the user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.