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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Boris Dmitrievich Lubachevsky, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T, Middletown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 89 ; 379112 ; 379202 ; 379204 ;
Abstract
A service establishes conference mailboxes (CMB) for specified durations of time upon request by a user. The CMB service permits a CMB to be accessed by any number of other users authorized by the requesting user. The CMB service also advantageously conferences together authorized users accessing a CMB concurrently. The CMB is advantageously implemented by a CMB control system comprising a processor and memory which CMB control system is connected to a communications network.