Voicemail system component employment of internet protocol network to store or access one or more voicemail messages on one or more storage devices

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Turning to FIG.
1, an apparatus 100 in one example comprises one or more voicemail system components that employ an internet protocol network to store or access one or more voicemail messages on one or more storage devices.
The one or more voicemail system components are coupled with the one or more storage devices through the internet protocol network.
A portion of a component of the apparatus 100 in one example comprises all of the component, and in another example comprises a subportion of the component, where the subportion of the component comprises less than all of the component.
Referring further to FIGS.
1 and 8, the apparatus 100 in one example employs at least one computer-readable signal-bearing medium.
One example of a computer-readable signal-bearing medium for the apparatus 100 comprises an instance of a recordable data storage medium 102 such as one or more of a magnetic, electrical, optical, biological, and atomic data storage medium.
In another example, a computer-readable signal-bearing medium for the apparatus 100 comprises a modulated carrier signal transmitted over a network comprising or coupled with the apparatus 100, for instance, one or more of a telephone network, a local area network ("LAN"), the internet, and a wireless network.
An exemplary component of the apparatus 100 employs and/or comprises a set and/or series of computer instructions written in or implemented with any of a number of programming languages, as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art.
Still referring to FIGS.
1 and 8, in one example, the apparatus 100 comprises one or more phones 104, one or more networks 106, one or more voicemail system ("VMS") components 110, one or more storage devices 112, and one or more node components 850.
The phone 104 in one example corresponds to a destination number ("DN") 113, for example, a telephone number.
Exemplary instances of the phone 104 comprise phones 114 and 116.
Exemplary instances of the destination number 113 comprise destination numbers 115 and 119