Interactive voice message retrieval
US7738637B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 24, 2004 |
| Grant date | Jun 15, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 14, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M3/53333
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for exchanging voice messages that may be employed in an answering machine, in wired or wireless telephone, or in an voice messaging system. An incoming voice message from a message source is received and recorded, parsed into segments, and the parsed message is played back to a listener, pausing between each of the parsed segments to accept and record a spoken response from the listener. A reply message is returned to the original message source that includes each such spoken response along with a snippet extracted from the particular segment responded to in the original message. The listener may also interrupt the playback of the voice message at any time to record a response.
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