Gerald W Weare

US Patent:

62333186, May 15, 2001

Filed:

Nov 5, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/743793

Inventors:

Donald F. Picard - Medford MA
Thomas Lyman Root - Andover MA
Jeffrey John Schlueter - Wakefield MA
Gerald William Weare - Sherborn MA

Assignee:

Comverse Network Systems, Inc. - Wakefield MA

International Classification:

H04M 3533

US Classification:

379 8817

Abstract:

A unified messaging system that provides a multimedia mailbox. The system allows a subscriber to access stored multimedia messages, such as voicemail messages, facsimile messages, combined voice and facsimile messages and video messages, not only through a public switched telephone network using a telephone but also over a data network, such as the Internet or an intranet, using a personal computer. The system provides voicemail access over the telephone network, indicating message number, etc. with the ability to play messages to the telephone user as desired. For text type messages, such as facsimile and e-mail, the system converts the text into speech and plays the speech to the telephone user. The system allows a personal computer user to obtain the data network access using an Internet browser. The browser is used to access a home page of the system and get information about the messages stored, and is used to download (get) and play the messages at the personal computer via data streaming in the case of a voice or video messages or view the messages in the case of text type messages, such as facsimile and e-mail.

US Patent:

59094834, Jun 1, 1999

Filed:

Sep 9, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/709672

Inventors:

Gerald W. Weare - Sherborn MA
Evelyn J. Tate - Sudbury MA

Assignee:

Comverse Network Systems, Inc. - Wakefield MA

International Classification:

H04M 164

US Classification:

379 8818

Abstract:

In a processing system distributed over a large geographic area, data are transferred from one system to another by a combination of as needed basis and a continually executing background utility. To transfer voice mailboxes and voicemail processing to a newly installed or under-utilized system, a communication network is established between at least one source system and a destination system. The migration function is activated on the destination system by specifying one or more migration ranges of mailboxes. When a call is received for one of the mailboxes in the migration range(s), if the destination system does not have the mailbox information in its database, a query is sent to the source system to retrieve the mailbox information which is stored at the destination system. Messages are retrieved from the source system by the destination system using remote play capabilities. The background migration utility sequences through mailboxes in the specified migration range(s) and transfers all mailbox information which has not yet been transferred by queries.