Telephonic communications – Audio message storage – retrieval – or synthesis – Multilingual system or operation
Patent
1993-03-19
1996-01-09
Hofsass, Jeffery A.
Telephonic communications
Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis
Multilingual system or operation
379 67, 379100, 358402, H04M 164
Patent
active
054835801
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and methods are provided for non-simultaneously creating and storing in electronic format a composite voice/data message having a recorded voice message portion and a facsimile transmittal portion. The method provides for creating a voice message and sending a time-wise separated facsimile transmittal to a voice message/data storage system, and then associating the separate voice message and facsimile transmittal portions to form a composite voice/data message. The methods include a message identification scheme wherein a message identification number is assigned to the first-received message portion, and the caller is prompted to provide that message identification number in connection with the later-received message portion. Apparatus to accomplish these methods steps is also provided.
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Brandman Yigal
Koerschen Charlotte
Lin Frank C. H.
Olson Peter D.
Soroosh Shahryar
Hofsass Jeffery A.
Octel Communications Corporation
Pisano Nicola A.
Weaver Scott L.
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