Patent ID: 6393107
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
A method comprising:formulating a structured electronic message by combining a plurality of messaging elements, at least some of the messaging elements being content-related that are each associated with a portion of the content of the message and at least one of the messaging elements comprising instructions that define a structure of the message from which at least some of the content-related messaging elements can be sequentially combined for presentation to a recipient as a unified message in at least an audio format, and an address of the recipient of the message at a messaging system that stores the message and is capable of interpreting the instructions, assembling and combining at least some of the content-related messaging elements in accordance with the instructions, and sequentially presenting, the assembled and combined content-related messaging elements to the recipient as a unified message in at least an audio format when the recipient retrieves the message from storage, the messaging system being capable of receiving, storing in a recipient's mailbox, and delivering to a recipient conventional voicemail messages as well as structured electronic messages; and sending the structured electronic message to a mailbox of the recipient at the recipient's address on the messaging system.