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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:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bruce Lowell Hanson, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/22 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/22 ;
Abstract
A system of delivering a message to a voice messaging system, coupled to a telephone extension, calls a telephone number received from a database. Subsequently, the call is monitored for speech energy and for a continuous silence interval after speech has been detected. Finally, a message is played to a voice messaging system after the continuous interval of silence expires.