Arrangement for automated delivery of voice-mail messages for software processes
US5646981A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 10, 1995 |
| Grant date | Jul 8, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 10, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M2203/2016
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A program-implemented arrangement (26) executing on a computer (22) facilitates use of a voice messaging system (VMS 12) by other application programs (25) by interacting with the application program interface (API) of the VMS on behalf of the application programs. In response to an application program writing a message identifier and a destination identifier to a pipe (37), a daemon process (34) of the arrangement retrieves the identified message from its database (33) and causes the VMS to deliver it to the identified destination. Messages to populate the database are generated via the conventional VMS message-creation facility and are brought into the database by a message-retrieval process (32) of the arrangement.
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