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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2000
Paul M. Brennan, Toronto, CA;
John C. Myers, Toronto, CA;
Robert A. Williamson, Aurora, CA;
Anne Grosman, Willowdale, CA;
Pieter Groen, Toronto, CA;
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Abstract
When a caller calls a call busy called station, the caller may request that a message be provided to the called station while the caller waits. In such instance, the called station receives the message while busy with the other call. The message may be speech indications provided by the caller which are received by the called station at a volume normally associated with a whisper. The speech indications may be recorded from the caller and the caller given an opportunity to edit same before they are sent. The message may also be a text message where the called station supports text or has an associated text-based telephone appliance.