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Details
Inventors: Baker, La Veria; Scott, David;
Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Primary Examiner: Escalante; Ovidio
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Merchant & Gould

A method and system are provided for creating and utilizing subscriber specific memory locations or storage folders for storing incoming voicemail messages in a telecommunications system voicemail system. A subscriber to voicemail services creates subscriber or user-specific memory locations or storage folders to which callers may direct a voice message. When a caller calls the subscriber's directory number and is forwarded to the subscriber's voicemail service, the caller is given the option to save the message in one of a number of previous created voice message folders. For example, the caller may receive a prompt like "Press 1 to leave a message for Jane." If messages are inadvertently left in the wrong voice message folder, the user having authorized access to that folder may move the message to the appropriate folder. If desired, personal identification numbers (PIN) may be assigned to each voice message folder to control access to messages saved therein.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The following description of an embodiment of the present invention is made with reference to the above-described drawings where enlighten numerals refer to like parts or components throughout the several figures.
The present invention is directed to a method and system for creating and utilizing subscriber or user-specific voice message storage folders within a voicemail box of a voicemail system.
Operating Environment FIG.
1 is a block diagram illustrating components of a wireline and wireless telephone network that provides an exemplary operating environment for the present invention.
The public switched telephone network that evolved in the 1980s incorporated the advanced intelligent network (AIN).
Some of the components of the advanced intelligent network are illustrated in FIG.
1.
FIG.
1 is illustrative of at least a part of the advanced intelligent network (AIN) 100 of a typical local exchange carrier integrated with components of a wireless network 150.
The advanced intelligent network (AIN) uses the signaling system 7 (SS7) network for signal or system control message transport.
The components thereof are well known to those skilled in the art.
The operation of many of the components of the advanced intelligent network is also described in U.
S.
Pat.
No.
5,245,719 to Weisser entitled "Mediation of Open Advanced Intelligent Network Interface by Shared Execution Environment" which is incorporated herein by reference.
The SS7 communications protocol is provided in the document entitled "Bell Communications Research Specification of Signaling System 7," Document TR-NWT-000246, Issue 2 (June 1991), plus Revision 1 (December 1991), which is also incorporated herein by reference.
A plurality of central offices are provided in a typical public switched telephone network.
As shown in FIG.
1, each central office may include an electronic switch known to those skilled in the art as a service switching point (SSP).
These are indicated in FIG.
1 as SSP switches 12 and 14


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