Patent ID: 7180986
Filing Date: 2007-02-20
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A distributed voicemail system comprising: a media server in communication with a telephone network, the media server adapted to invoke a voicemail service of the distributed voicemail system and adapted to render at least a first portion of a Voice eXtensible Markup Language (VXML) page; an application server in communication with the media server, the application server adapted to generate a VXML page responsive to a request from the media server and provide the VXML page to the media server, wherein a portion of the VXML page includes a tag that is embedded therein; a browser in communication with the media server and operable to render the at least a first portion of the VXML page and in response to detecting the embedded tag, invoke a voicemail-account monitorer; and a voicemail-account monitorer that once invoked, monitors at least a portion of the voicemail system responsive to the media server processing the tag.