Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc.

Siemens Communications, Inc.

Manisha Sahasrabudhe

Nidhi Narang

Radha Iyer

Satish Singh

Diem Nguyen

Some embodiments provide transmission of a request to access a voice message mailbox to a voice mailbox provider, transmission of caller information to the voice mailbox provider, and reception of a voice message associated with the caller information from the voice mailbox provider. According to various embodiments, the caller information may be associated with a selected contact, with a caller who initiated a missed voice call, and/or with a particular voice message mailbox.

System and method to facilitate voice message retrieval

Some embodiments provide reception of a call from a calling party to a called party, acquisition of a voice message form the calling party to the called party, reception from the calling party a selection of an email message sent to the called party, and association of the voice message with the email message.

Association of email message with voice message

A system and method for broadcasting a message to multiple contacts in a list of contacts provided by an electronic mail application and furnishing presence information for contacts in the list of contacts provided by the electronic mail application includes an interface for adding functionality to an electronic mail application which supports instance messaging (IM). The interface interfaces with a distributed presence enabled communication platform for providing presence information regarding contact availability. The electronic mail application utilizes the interface for displaying the contact presence information and broadcasting a message to multiple contacts in the list of contacts.

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Manisha Sahasrabudhe