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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1998
Jocelyn Cloutier, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Allen E. Milewski, Red Bank, NJ (US);
David Millen, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and system to generate a unique code for a message and then allows easy and direct access to the content of that specific message. The unique code is transmitted in a message alert, which may be implemented for a variety of media. In particular, according to one embodiment, the present invention provides a method and system for enhanced messaging services incorporating the capability of alerting a message service subscriber to the receipt of high priority messages according to a defined set of filter criteria. The present invention is highly flexible and can be designed to work with any type of electronic message including e-mail, voice mail, facsimile etc. Furthermore, the enhanced messaging services are transparent to the typical messaging services in use today so that subscribers are not required to change messaging services or learn a new system.