Patent ID: 7310412
Filing Date: 2007-12-18
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. An automated method for delivering recorded personalized information messages via an automated dialing system, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a database of first names and telephone numbers associated with the first names; (b) determining a selected group of names in the database having a greatest frequency of occurrence or the first names in the database; (c) recording individual personal greetings to the selected group of the first names having the greatest frequency of occurrence; (d) placing a call to a telephone number selected from the database and receiving a response; (e) determining when the call has been accepted at the telephone number from an answering machine wherein step (e) further includes the steps of: (f) playing the individualized personal greeting onto the accepted call on the answering machine, wherein each of the individualized personal greetings is delivered once in a nontruncated form; and (g) repeating the steps (d), (e) and (f), until at least a single pass through of all the telephone numbers in the selected group have been called.