Patent ID: 6278770
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
An operation method of a voice information service system for providing a user with voice information registered therein through a telephone network in accordance with designation of the user; said operation method comprising the steps of:registering a first time at which the voice information of a first information number begins to be provided to the user together with a telephone number of the user, a value of the first information number, and a reference passage time corresponding to a beginning point in time wherefrom the voice information of the first information number begins to be reproduced;checking whether a DTMF code which is entered by the user receiving the voice information of the first information number is one of specific DTMF codes or not;calculating an effective passage time of the voice information of the first information number when the DTMF code entered by the user is found to be one of the specific DTMF codes, by adding a time difference between a second time when the DTMF code is entered and the first time onto the reference passage time, the effective passage time being calculated based on the first time, the telephone number, the value of the first information number and the reference passage time registered for the user; anddetermining a second information number of the voice information to be reproduced instead of the voice information of the first voice information number together with a beginning point in time wherefrom the voice information of the second information number is to be reproduced for the user, according to the effective passage time, the first information number and a type of said one of the specific DTMF codes entered by the user.