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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2008
Omer Boyaci, Ahmetpasa, TR;
Lynne Shapiro Brotman, Westfield, NJ (US);
Parameshwaran Krishnan, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Michael J. Sammon, Watchung, NJ (US);
Shalini Yajnik, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Omer Boyaci, Ahmetpasa, TR;
Lynne Shapiro Brotman, Westfield, NJ (US);
Parameshwaran Krishnan, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Michael J. Sammon, Watchung, NJ (US);
Shalini Yajnik, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are disclosed that enable a terminal such as a computer-based softphone to retrieve and handle, transparently for its user, the voicemail that has been left by calling parties who called the user's cell-phone number. Furthermore, the softphone is able to integrate the presentation to its user of the voicemail associated with the cell phone with the voicemail that has been left by calling parties who called the softphone itself. The softphone features both i) a personal area network interface that is used to communicate directly with the cell phone and ii) a local area network interface that is used to retrieve the cell-phone voicemail from a voicemail system. Once the softphone is paired with the cell phone, the softphone is able to retrieve signals directly from the cell phone and, based on those signals, retrieves the voicemail from the cell phone's voicemail system.