Patent ID: 7346505
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A system for transcribing a recorded message, the system comprising: an Internet site of a service provider that receives recipient-designated assignments of numeric options to archival devices; a memory storing the recipient-designated assignments of the numeric options; a storing device for storing a recorded message for a recipient of the recorded message, for playing back the recorded message to the recipient in response to the recipient attempting access to the recorded message, for prompting the recipient to select one of the numeric options as stored in memory for the recorded message after the recorded message has been played back and in response to the recipient attempting access to the recorded message, and for receiving a selection of one of the numeric options from the recipient to transcribe the recorded message in response to the prompt and provide it to the archival device corresponding to the chosen numeric option as stored in memory; a transcription device, in communication with the storing device, for transcribing the recorded message into a computer file upon the storage device receiving the selection from the recipient to transcribe the recorded message; plurality of archival devices, in communication with the transcription device, for reading the computer file and outputting or storing a transcribed version of the recorded message upon being chosen via the selection by the recipient of the numeric option; and a service provider network interconnecting the recipient to the storing device.