Patent ID: 9628628
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of operating a voicemail system, comprising: receiving at the voicemail system an incoming call from a calling party; in which the incoming call is received at the voicemail system at a first network location; in which the incoming call is a call from the calling party directed to a called party and redirected to connect the calling party to the voicemail system at the first network location; in which the method further comprises: the voicemail system providing to the calling party a notification of a second network location; the voicemail system providing to the calling party through the second network location, access to a registration process for registering the calling party to receive a voicemail service from the voicemail system; and authenticating the calling party by recording, in the course of the incoming call received at the first network location, a received indication of the source of the incoming call; obtaining via the second network location a telephone number of the calling party; and verifying the telephone number against the received indication.