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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1988
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1986
David R Axberg, Carrollton, TX (US);
MessagePhone, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for receiving and delivering voice messages responds to the inability of a caller to complete a call from a calling station to a called station to automatically cause the calling station to default to a voice message center. If the caller desires to leave a voice message to be delivered to the called station, the caller is prompted to store the voice message. Thereafter, the voice message center initiates an outdial routine which makes a predetermined number of attempts to deliver the voice message to the called station at predetermined time intervals. In the preferred embodiment, the method is incorporated in a multiple user station telephone system in either a 'shared tenant services' or 'on-campus' configuration.