Telephonic communications – Audio message storage – retrieval – or synthesis
Patent
1994-01-18
1995-02-28
Brown, Thomas W.
Telephonic communications
Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis
379 89, 379212, 379232, H04M 350
Patent
active
053944607
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a highly reliable network of interconnected voice processing modules. The voice processing modules are interconnected by a high speed FDDI network so that information can be transferred between the modules at high speed. All of the incoming lines for all the interconnected modules are connected in a single hunt group. Each user's profile is stored in two modules and each module includes a directory that shows were each user's profile is stored. When a call arrives at a particular module, the directory is first checked to insure that the desired user does have a mailbox somewhere on the network and to determine where the particular user's profile is located. The user's profile is obtained via the FDDI network from one of the modules where it is located. The profile will show where the associated greeting is stored. The greeting is obtained via the FDDI bus (if it is not on the system which received the call) and the greeting is played. If the caller leaves a message, it is stored on the system which received the call. The user's profile is updated to show that a message was stored and to show where the message is stored. The updated user's profile is then returned to the two systems where it was originally stored.
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Kendall Burton N.
Olson Peter D.
Brown Thomas W.
Galbi Elmer
Octel Communications Corporation
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