Patent ID: 6418200
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
A messaging system comprising:a post office including a first enterprise wide address directory, said first address directory being updatable and including a directory record for each addressable entity in said messaging system, each directory record of said first address directory including addressing and other information relating to the associated addressable entity, said post office also including a mailbox for each addressable entity in said messaging system in which messages relating to the associated addressable entity are stored; a second enterprise wide address directory including a directory record for each addressable entity in said messaging system, each directory record of said second address directory including a subset of the addressing and other information relating to the associated addressable entity that is stored in the corresponding directory record of said first address directory; a telephony messaging application handling incoming telephone calls and communicating with said post office, said telephony messaging application forwarding messages to said post office for storage in mailboxes associated with addressable entities in said messaging system and retrieving messages from mailboxes in response to input commands, said telephony messaging application accessing said second address directory for addressable entity address information to enable enterprise wide messaging to be performed via said telephony messaging application; and a synchronization mechanism synchronizing the addressing and other information of each directory record in the second address directory with addressing and other information of the corresponding directory record in the first address directory, said synchronization mechanism being triggered in response to selected events and at programmable selected intervals.