Patent ID: 7949104
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. An automated two tiered method of delivering a message via a telephone dialing system to an automated recorder while monitoring for echo cancellation break signals, comprising the steps of: (a)(i) placing a telephone call to a telephone number that is associated with an answering machine, the telephone number being selected from a database of telephone numbers; (a)(ii) detecting a signal being emitted from the answering machine; (a)(iii) alternatively determining if the detected signal is either a continuous noise signal tone over a first time period or is a period of silence over a second time period, the first time period being different from the second time period; (b)(i) playing a recorded information message onto the answering machine after a third time period following the first time period of the continuous noise signal tone; (b)(ii) playing the recorded information message onto the answering machine after a fourth time period following the second time period of the period of silence; (c) monitoring the answering machine for echo cancellation break signals while simultaneously playing the recorded message; (d) repeating steps (a)(i), (a)(ii), (b)(i),(b)(ii) and (c) for less than three echo cancellation break signals; and (e) continuing to play the recorded message if there are either no echo cancellation break signals or there are at least three echo cancellation break signals, wherein the method overcomes problems with premature launching of the recorded message so that the recorded message is launched closer to the time when the answering machine begins recording, and the recorded message is delivered in a nontruncated form by the answering machine; and (f) repeating the above steps until at least a pass through of all the telephone numbers from the database have been called.