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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1998
Aaron James Bobick, Calgary, CA;
Brian Lawrence Buckler, Calgary, CA;
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for storing a voice message. The method includes the steps of storing a coded representation of the voice message in a block of memory associated with the voice message and sized to correspond to the size of the coded representation, retrieving the coded representation to play the voice message to a user, compressing the coded representation to produce a compressed representation of the voice message, the compressed representation having a lesser size than the coded representation, after the coded representation has been retrieved, and storing the compressed representation of the message in the block of memory in place of the coded representation.