Electronic messaging system with multiple personal greetings
CA 2034419 A1 · Owner: Fink, Laurence I. · Inventors: Fink, Laurence I.; Lothrop, John R.; Overmyer, Ricky L.
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An electronic messaging system allows a system subscriber to record a plurality of "customized" personal greetings which are played in response to incoming calls to the messaging system. Each of these greetings is placed in a message "pool" and a message system subscriber can specify the greeting that is to be played for each of a variety of call types. Each call type serves to differentiate between incoming communications based on one or more predetermined characteristics. Such call types, for example may differentiate between incoming, communications which are answered due to the called party not answering or the, called party being busy, or the call is received after normal working hours …
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- Filed January 17, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 17, 2011.
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