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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. 21, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Scott A Jones, Prides Crossing, MA (US);
Assignee:
Boston Technology, Inc., Wakefield, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ; H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 74 ; 379 67 ; 379 88 ; 379 89 ;
Abstract
A voice mail message system detects the length of each message and provides an indication of the length to a user together with other message information when messages are requested. The indication of message length may be a qualitative one in which the number of short, medium and long messages is indicated to the user. In addition, if a user interrupts a message as it is being played back, the user is informed of the remaining length of the message.