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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. 08, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2000
Paulus George Maria De Bot, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
In a communication system a communication device ( ) is present for receiving a wideband broadcast signal from a headend. For providing a return channel to enable interactive TV services, the communication device ( ) is connected to a telephone network. In order to be able to also provide a voice mail services storage unit ( ) is present in the communication device ( ) for storing voice messages received from the telephone network, a retrieval unit for retrieving the stored voice messages from the storage unit ( ) and a supply unit for supplying the retrieved voice messages to an audio output of the communication device for playback. In an embodiment of the invention, the communication device ( ) is integrated in a TV set ( ).
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