Patents Assigned to BT Americas Inc.
  • Patent number: 9609138
    Abstract: The subject matter herein relates to voice mail systems and, more particularly, cross-media voice mail notification and delivery. Various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, software, and data structures that operate to, or facilitate, dispatching of voice mail notification messages to voice mailbox owners. In some embodiments, the notifications are sent to the voice mailbox owners in a text format, such as a short message service text message, email, or other text based service. These and other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: BT Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore Leon Griggs, Christopher Michael Waters, Dan Seyer, Peter X. Leong
  • Patent number: 9088660
    Abstract: A system includes receiving a voicemail data object at a business application system. The voicemail data object is associated with a voicemail originated from a caller, and includes a caller identifier identifying the caller that originated the voicemail. The voicemail data object is automatically associated with an entity data object of the business application system, the association being based on the caller identifier. A voicemail indicator is presented to a user of the business application system based on the association, the presentation of the voicemail indicator being in conjunction with presenting of caller identification information for the caller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: BT Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Lloyd Goldfarb, Ramani Narayan