Patent ID: 9560683
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G08C,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. In a system that includes a device with access to a network, a method of accessing a voice message on a device, the method comprising: receiving, at a device, an initial segment of a message and a reference, the reference pointing to a complete version of the message stored on a message server able to communicate with the device; locally storing at the device both the initial segment of the message and the reference pointing to the complete version of the message stored on the message server; presenting a visual representation of the message on a user interface of the device; receiving user input at the device that selects the visual representation on the device and indicates the message should be played; in response to receiving user input selecting the visual representation: wherein the length of the initial segment of the message is chosen to either: cover the latency of establishing a network connection and transmitting the rest of the voice message; or cover the latency of establishing a network connection plus the amount of time it takes to stream the remainder of the message.