US Patent No: 6,233,318

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System for accessing multimedia mailboxes and messages over the internet and via telephone

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Abstract

A unified messaging system that provides a multimedia mailbox. The system allows a subscriber to access stored multimedia messages, such as voicemail messages, facsimile messages, combined voice and facsimile messages and video messages, not only through a public switched telephone network using a telephone but also over a data network, such as the Internet or an intranet, using a personal computer. The system provides voicemail access over the telephone network, indicating message number, etc. with the ability to play messages to the telephone user as desired. For text type messages, such as facsimile and e-mail, the system converts the text into speech and plays the speech to the telephone user. The system allows a personal computer user to obtain the data network access using an Internet browser. The browser is used to access a home page of the system and get information about the messages stored, and is used to download (get) and play the messages at the personal computer via data streaming in the case of a voice or video messages or view the messages in the case of text type messages, such as facsimile and e-mail. The user can also perform the other typical messaging functions over the data network connection that are provided for telephone access, such as viewing a message list, saving and deleting messages, group list administration and other administration tasks.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
COMVERSE, INC.WAKEFIELD, MA58

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Picard, Donald F Cambridge, MA 6 911
Root, Thomas Lyman Andover, MA 1 374
Schlueter, Jeffrey John Wakefield, MA 1 374
Weare, Gerald William Sherborn, MA 1 374

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7,266,586 Method and apparatus for maintaining a unified view of multiple mailboxes 4 2005
 
AT&T BLS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INC. (1)
7,286,653 Saving information from information retrieval systems 6 2004
 
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INC. (1)
7,466,804 Method and system for call, facsimile and electronic message forwarding 1 2005
 
AT&T KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P. (1)
8,130,425 Methods and apparatus to route fax calls in an internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) network 2 2007
 
CALUMET KEWEENAW LLC (1)
7,010,574 System and method for managing multimedia messaging platforms 1 2002
 
CATALYST WEB SERVICES, LLC (1)
7,484,213 Agent architecture employed within an integrated message, document and communication system 12 2004
 
CINGULAR WIRELESS II, LLC (1)
7,609,686 Mass multimedia messaging 5 2004
 
CORE WIRELESS LICENSING S.A.R.L (1)
8,150,989 Multimedia messaging method and system 0 2002
 
COSAT, INC. (1)
6,704,775 Facsimile image information managing system and method 11 1999
 
CREDIT SUISSE, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH (1)
6,751,297 Method and system for multimedia network based data acquisition, recording and distribution 53 2000
 
ERICSSON INC. (1)
6,795,541 Method, apparatus and system for completing a call when a called party has not answered the call 6 2002
 
FACEBOOK, INC. (1)
7,359,493 Bulk voicemail 13 2003
 
FOUNDRY NETWORKS, LLC (1)
8,040,877 Voice over IP architecture 0 2006
 
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD. (1)
7,251,316 Methods and systems for enabling conversations about task-centric physical objects 0 2002
 
GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORPORATION (1)
7,062,544 Provisioning of locally-generated prompts from a central source 8 2000
 
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P. (1)
6,873,687 Method and apparatus for capturing and retrieving voice messages 4 2001
 
INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENCE, INC. (1)
6,944,272 Method and system for administering multiple messages over a public switched telephone network 7 2002
 
INTERWOVEN, INC. (1)
6,928,149 Method and apparatus for a user controlled voicemail management system 5 1999
 
IPSOBOX, S.A. DE C.V. (1)
7,660,403 Multi-networking communication system and method 0 2006
 
JETQUE (1)
6,781,962 Apparatus and method for voice message control 50 2002
 
KINERA, INC. (1)
6,603,837 Method and system to provide a global integrated messaging services distributed network with personalized international roaming 25 2001
 
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V. (1)
6,625,441 Telephony system with a key for accessing multiple answering machines or mailboxes 0 1999
 
KRUCIK, GEORGE (1)
7,457,281 System and method for transmitting voice messages through the internet 0 2003
 
LESAVICH HIGH-TECH LAW GROUP, P.C. (1)
7,852,831 Method and system for providing private virtual secure Voice over Internet Protocol communications 13 2005
 
LG ELECTRONICS INC. (1)
7,617,282 Apparatus for converting e-mail data into audio data and method therefor 2 2003
 
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION (1)
6,404,859 Voice enabled system for remote access of information 12 1999
 
MC, INC. (1)
6,879,680 Method of and system for extending internet telephony over virtual private network direct access lines 8 2002
 
MCI, INC. (1)
7,010,103 Methods for providing prepaid telephony service via an internet protocol network system 1 2002
 
MIST SILICON LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (1)
6,792,085 System and method for unified messaging with message replication and synchronization 47 1999
 
MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC (1)
6,788,929 Email message confirmation by audio email tags 6 2002
 
NOKIA CORPORATION (1)
6,956,832 Method for delivering messages in a wireless communications system using the same protocol for all types of messages 25 1999
 
NOKIA MOBILE PHONES LTD. (1)
7,395,313 Method and system for controlling multiple remote mailboxes simultaneously connected to a plurality of PDP connections of a GPRS system 2 2001
 
OBJECT VIDEO, INC. (1)
8,121,626 Method and systems for short message forwarding services 4 2007
 
ONLINE CONNECTIVITY INC. (1)
7,526,538 System using server to provide mobile computer accessing to a different network without reconfiguring the mobile computer 20 2005
 
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (1)
6,661,877 System and method for providing access to a unified message store logically storing computer telephony messages 18 2001
 
ORACLE OTC SUBSIDIARY LLC (1)
7,203,188 Voice-controlled data/information display for internet telephony and integrated voice and data communications using telephones and computing devices 5 2002
 
PADCOM HOLDINGS, INC. (1)
7,602,782 Apparatus and method for intelligent routing of data between a remote device and a host system 12 2007
 
PALMSOURCE, INC. (1)
6,993,561 Method and apparatus for maintaining a unified view of multiple mailboxes 7 2002
 
PANASONIC SYSTEM NETWORKS CO., LTD. (1)
8,149,436 Network facsimile apparatus 0 2005
 
QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC. (1)
6,606,648 Method for handling accesses to a mailbox 4 1999
 
RICHARD J. HELFERICH (1)
7,003,304 Paging transceivers and methods for selectively retrieving messages 10 2000
 
RICOH COMPANY, LTD. (1)
6,784,899 Systems and methods for providing rich multimedia messages to remote users using telephones and facsimile machines 26 2000
 
ROCKSTAR BIDCO, LP (1)
6,868,140 Telephony call control using a data network and a graphical user interface and exchanging datagrams between parties to a telephone call 31 1998
 
ROCKSTAR CONSORTIUM US LP (1)
6,888,927 Graphical message notification 138 1998
 
ROCKWELL ELECTRONIC COMMERCE TECHNOLOGIES (1)
7,373,387 Session to track actual e-mail handling time 1 2004
 
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (1)
7,885,187 System and method for providing unified messaging system service using voice over internet protocol 0 2004
 
SBC TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES, INC. (1)
6,879,668 System and method for communicating with an out of service telephone number 8 2002
 
SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA, INC. (1)
7,159,230 Emergency alert system 19 2003
 
SECUREACH SYSTEMS, LLC (1)
8,184,781 Method and system for communicating information 0 2007
 
SHOUTMAIL.COM (1)
6,907,112 Method and system for voice messaging 42 1999
 
SIEMENS ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATIONS GMBH & CO. KG (1)
7,492,872 Method for giving notification of a message to a subscriber 13 2000
 
SOLUTION INC. (1)
7,007,080 System for reconfiguring and registering a new IP address for a computer to access a different network without user intervention 61 2000
 
SONY ELECTRONICS INC. (1)
7,039,761 Methodology for performing caching procedures in an electronic network 0 2003
 
SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY L.P. (1)
7,142,648 System for securing messages recorded in an IP telephony network 11 2003
 
SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. (1)
7,065,574 Messaging system using pairs of message gates in a distributed computing environment 15 2000
 
TEKLA PEHR LLC (1)
7,773,585 Internet protocol telephony voice/video message deposit and retrieval 1 2006
 
TELEWARE, INC. (1)
6,671,356 Multi-media communication management system with subscriber messaging integration services 36 2002
 
TENCENT (BVI) LIMITED (1)
7,512,407 Instant messaging system and method 8 2001
 
TOSHIBA AMERICA INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC. (1)
6,563,912 System and method for providing integrated messaging 51 1999
 
TSAI, MARY Y. Y. (1)
7,979,787 Method and apparatus for linking designated portions of a received document image with an electronic address 0 2006
 
UNITED CONNECTIONS, INC. (1)
7,369,648 Apparatus and method for PBX-integrated unified messaging services on a switched backbone 11 2000
 
VALUE-ADDED COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (1)
7,742,581 Electronic messaging exchange 0 2004
 
VAPORSTREAM INCORPORATED (1)
8,291,026 Reduced traceability electronic message system and method for sending header information before message content 0 2009
 
VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC. (1)
8,155,282 Self-provisioning, notification, retrieval, and submission of visual voice mail 2 2008
 
VIRTUAPLUS LIMITED (1)
6,721,398 Unified messaging system 19 1999
 
VITRIA TECHNOLOGY, INC. (1)
6,901,447 Event driven communication system 9 2002
 
VOZ MOBILE CLOUD LTD. (1)
6,765,996 Audio file transmission method 14 2001
 
WEBLEY SYSTEMS, INC. (1)
7,516,190 Personal voice-based information retrieval system 3 2001
 
WORLDWIDE SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CORP. (1)
7,088,801 Single telephone number access to multiple communications services 1 1999
 
YODLEE.COM, INC. (1)
8,244,635 System and method for syndicated collection, aggregation and delivery of personal data 0 2001
 
OTHER [CHECK PATENT PROFILE FOR ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION] (7)
6,724,867 Method and apparatus for automatic message transfer from a remote messaging system to a local communication device 22 1999
6,842,779 Agent accessory tool cooperating with integrated application on WEB server by HTTP protocol 20 1999
8,448,059 Apparatus and method for providing browser audio control for voice enabled web applications 0 1999
6,704,305 Integrated device for integrating the internet with the public switched telephone network 14 2002
8,407,294 Unified messaging system using web based application server for management of messages using standardized servers 0 2005
8,369,497 Enhanced voicemail system and method 0 2008
8,001,274 Mobile device network accessory supporting content integration between accessory data and internet content 1 2009