Visual Voicemail Method for Managing Deleted Messages

Patent №

US 8,917,824

Granted

2014-12-23

Filed 2012

Owner

AT&T MOBILITY II LLC

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13688501

A method for managing visual voicemail messages includes displaying a list of voicemail messages on a telecommunications handset, receiving user commands for operating on the voicemail messages including a delete message command and in response to a delete message command, marking a voicemail message for deletion with a delete timestamp and moving the voicemail message to a Deleted Messages folder. A Deleted Message Age Indicator function processes to control permanent deletion of voicemail messages in the Deleted Messages folder based on delete timestamps and a global Delete Time value in cooperation with a visual voicemail platform.

SpeechH04M 3/53366H04M 1/72433H04M 1/72469H04M 3/533H04M 3/53333H04M 3/537H04N 7/147H04M 2201/14+2 more

AI classification

Speech0.97
Evolutionary computation0.10
Knowledge representation0.04
AI hardware0.03
Natural language0.02
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

AT&T MOBILITY II LLC

assignment · 293720297

Assignors

ZUBAS, MICHAEL ROBERT, RAINER, BRIAN, SIGMUND, WILLIAM J.

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