Avaya Technology LLC

David R Rhee

Robert E Cochran

Frederick H Meyer

John M Madden

Arthur J Wilton

A method for more effectively accessing message attachments that is particularly applicable in a telephone voicemail or e-mail system. The system provides users with the ability to selectively process attachments to a main or originating message and to designate messages as able to be forwarded only once and/or be reviewed only once. Among other benefits, the time required for handling attachments and/or for listening to attachments is reduced. Various embodiments of the invention include the use of telephone keypad input control, push-button, voice recognition and computer control.

Method for administering message attachments

A port card employable in a cell switch including a host computer having a processor and a bus for interconnecting a plurality of port cards and a method of switching cells in the cell switch. The port card includes: (1) bus master circuitry for gaining control of the bus to allow the port card to place cells to be switched in the cell switch on the bus and (2) interface circuitry, coupled to the local memory and the bus master circuitry, that places the cells on the bus when the bus master circuitry has gained control of the bus, the cells communicated directly from the interface circuitry to another port card in the cell switch via the bus. The processor (or, more generally, the host computer) is relieved of having to participate directly in switching the cells.

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Metuchen, NJ, United States of America

David R Rhee