Telephonic communications – Audio message storage – retrieval – or synthesis – Multilingual system or operation
Patent
1997-08-20
1998-11-10
Tsang, Fan S.
Telephonic communications
Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis
Multilingual system or operation
379142, 379196, 379245, H04M 157, H04J 312
Patent
active
058355723
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for providing customized, billing-controlled call bridging services through a bridging node which includes a node interface for connection through incoming and outgoing telephone trunks to a carrier switch of a public switched network, an audio peripheral for recording, playing, and analyzing audio signals, and a node controller for controlling operation of the node interface and the audio peripheral.
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Austin Kevin Lee
Billingsley, III Samuel F.
Richardson, Jr. Charles Thomson
Tsang Fan S.
United States Advanced Network, Inc.
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