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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2002
Mariana Benitez Palaez, Naperville, IL (US);
Anne Yin-fee Lee, Naperville, IL (US);
Stinson Samuel Mathai, Wheaton, IL (US);
Mariana Benitez Palaez, Naperville, IL (US);
Anne Yin-Fee Lee, Naperville, IL (US);
Stinson Samuel Mathai, Wheaton, IL (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In a multimedia communications system (), a multimedia-based answering system () lowers the amount of air interface bandwidth used to send multimedia mail messages. When a called party is unavailable, a user of a user terminal () is given an option to send a multimedia mail message for the unavailable called party (). If the user wants to send a multimedia mail message, the bandwidth requirements for the call are renegotiated to reduce bandwidth for sending the multimedia mail message (). The multimedia mail message is then transmitted over-the-air to a multimedia mail system (), where the multimedia mail message is buffered, transcoded (if necessary) and stored until the called party retrieves it ().