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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Terry D Jennings, Westminster, CO (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ; G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 88 ; 379 67 ; 379 89 ; 36441901 ; 36441904 ; 36441908 ; 434156 ; 434185 ; 434308 ; 381 43 ; 381 51 ; 395-286 ;
Abstract
Announcements from a voice messaging system that either prompt a user for action or provide information to a user are constructed independent of the language in which the announcement is provided to the user. In particular, each announcement is treated as a 'semantic expression' having an announcement identifier. This announcement identifier is mapped into a plurality of rules, each rule providing instructions on how to construct the announcement for a particular language. The rules can recursively call other rules to provide additional flexibility in constructing a particular announcement.