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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2005
Applicants:

Alan D. Gatzke, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);

Aaron J. Belcher, Shoreline, WA (US);

Kevin L. Chestnut, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Alan D. Gatzke, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);

Aaron J. Belcher, Shoreline, WA (US);

Kevin L. Chestnut, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method for communicating information to a user includes transmitting a plurality of indicator messages to a communication device associated with a particular user, each indicator message associated with an audio message for the user. The method also includes receiving, from the communication device, information indicating an order for two or more of the audio messages. Additionally, the method includes transmitting the audio messages to the communication device in the order indicated by the information indicating the order.


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