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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1997
Lawrence Leon Porter, Hampshire, GB;
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of providing a voice mail service is disclosed using a voice processing system having a communications link to one or more voice mail systems. A voice message for a subscriber to said one or more voice mail systems is received at said voice processing system, which prompts a determination as to the voice mail system on which said subscriber has a voice mailbox. The voice message is the transmitted to the voice mail system on which said subscriber has a voice mailbox. In the preferred embodiment, the communications link forms part of the Internet, and received messages are processed independently by two separate voice processing systems to provide redundancy.