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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:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1998
Applicants:
Brian Cruickshank, Oakville, CA;
Paul Michael Brennan, Toronto, CA;
John Eric Lumsden, Toronto, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M001/64 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides a method, apparatus and system for providing an addressee of a stored message with a graphical notification associated with a source of the stored message. In general terms, a communications device of the addressee is presented with the graphical notification in the form of an information signal which relates the stored message to at least one graphical image associated with the source of the stored message.
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