Patent ID: 8077839
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for processing a telephone number embedded in a voicemail received by a user of the handheld device, the handheld device comprising a processor and a memory, the method comprising: playing back the voicemail; in response to receiving a first marker set by the user to indicate a start of a telephone number, initiating storage of an audio sample corresponding to the telephone number in the memory; terminating storage of the audio sample corresponding to the telephone number in the memory either automatically or in response to receiving a second marker set by the user to indicate an end of the telephone number; using the processor, processing the stored audio sample to extract digits corresponding to the telephone number and communicating the extracted digits to an application executing on the processor; and if a quality score corresponding to the extracted digits is within a predetermined range, then comparing the extracted digits to at least one of a set of locally stored telephone numbers and a set of network-stored telephone numbers to generate higher-confidence digits and communicating the higher-confidence digits to an application executing on the processor.