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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2001
Stephen C. O'Neal, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Jiang, Danville, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented control center for permitting a subscriber of a plurality of communication services of a unified mess aging system to customize communication options pertaining to the plurality of communication services. The communication options include parameters associated with individual ones of the plurality of the communication services and routings among the plurality of communication services. The plurality of communication services comprise a voice telephone service through a telephony-centric network and an e-mail service through a data-centric network. The communication options are accessible via display terminals coupled to the data-centric network and via telephones coupled to the telephony-centric network.