Patent ID: 6333973
Filing Date: 2001-12-25
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
An integrated message center within telecommunications equipment for consolidating messages of different types for viewing and manipulation by a user of the telecommunications equipment having a display and a processor, comprising:means for automatically receiving notification messages corresponding to pending messages of different types, the notification messages including information regarding the source of each of the pending messages and the type of each of the pending messages, wherein each of the notification messages is automatically sent to the user when one of the pending messages is initially received and wherein the notification messages are received from an interface with independent connections with different bandwidths for the different types of pending messages;means for determining a message type of the pending messages from the information corresponding to the received notification messages;means for associating a message type indicator with each of the received notification messages based on the determined message type;means for displaying on the display a portion of the received notification messages and the associated message type indicators as entries in a single selectable list;means for receiving a selection of one of the pending messages based on the entries in the single selectable list; andmeans for retrieving manipulating the selected pending message for viewing and manipulation by the user.