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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:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kamala D. Urs, Bartlett, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 ; H04Q 7/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 ; H04Q 7/38 ;
Abstract
Caller-related information, such as a telephone number, in a voice mail message intended for a communication unit ( ) is extracted from the voice mail message and converted into an alpha-numeric string by a converter device ( ). The alpha-numeric string is conveyed by a messaging device ( ) to the communication unit and stored in the communication unit. Using the stored caller-related information, a user of the communication unit is able to repeatedly initiate a call to the caller identified by the caller-related information without having to access a voice mail device or enter the caller-related information manually.