Systems and methods for providing live voicemail to a mobile handset
AssigneeCellco Partnership
InventorDavid W. Young
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Abstract
The exemplary live voicemail functionality offers a user of a mobile station the ability to listen to a voicemail message, as the message is being recorded in a voicemail platform. The mobile communication network serving the user directs an incoming call intended for the mobile station to the voicemail platform, which records the audio for the incoming message. The network infrastructure also duplicates the audio and directs the duplicate audio to the mobile station for monitoring of the incoming message by the user, as the platform is recording the voicemail message.
Claims20
An article of manufacture, comprising:
- at least one non-transitory machine readable medium;
- and
- programming embodied in the at least one medium,
- wherein execution of the programming by a processor of each of one or more elements of a mobile communication network configures the network to implement functions, including functions to:
- (a) receive an incoming call for a destination mobile station accessible for communication through the mobile communications network;
- (b) duplicate audio of the incoming call such that the audio of the incoming call and the duplicate audio form two copies of the audio of the incoming call;
- and
- (c) direct one of the copies of the audio of the incoming call to a voicemail platform;
- and
- (d) while directing one of the copies of the audio of the incoming call to the voicemail platform, direct another of the copies of the audio of the incoming call through the mobile communication network to the destination mobile station, to enable audible output of the another the copies of the audio of the incoming call from the destination mobile station as the one of the copies of the audio of the incoming call is being recorded at the voicemail platform.
A system, comprising:
- a wireless mobile communication network configured to receive an incoming call intended for a called mobile station;
- and
- a media gateway coupled to or implemented in the wireless mobile communication network, the media gateway being configured to:
- duplicate audio of the incoming call, such that the audio of the incoming call and the duplicate audio form two copies of the audio of the incoming call;,
- direct one of the copies of as the audio of the incoming call to the voicemail platform for recording, and
- while directing the one of the copies of the audio of the incoming call to the voicemail platform, route another of the copies of the audio of the incoming call through the wireless mobile communication network to the called mobile station for live audible output from the called mobile station as the one of the copies of the audio of the incoming call is being recorded at the voicemail platform.
A method, comprising steps of:
- receiving an incoming call to a destination mobile station through a mobile communications network;
- duplicating audio of the incoming call such that the audio of the incoming call and the duplicate audio form two copies of the audio of the incoming call;
- directing one of the copies of the audio of the incoming call to a voicemail platform;
- and
- while directing the one of the copies of the audio of the incoming call to the voicemail platform, transmitting another of the copies of the audio of the incoming call through the mobile communication network to the destination mobile station, as a one-way transmission without the ability to induce any audio communication from the mobile station to the call origination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.