Patent ID: 8238529
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for bypassing outgoing voice mail greetings in a broadcast messaging system comprising: a processor; said processor being in operative communication with an NPANXX database, an OCN database and a voice mail short code database; said processor being configured to retrieve a telephone number to be called and to identify for the telephone number an OCN from said NPANXX database, and to identify a current carrier for the telephone number from said OCN database, and to identify a voice mail short code for the telephone number from said voice mail short code database; and said processor being further configured to associate said voice mail short code with the telephone number to be called; said processor being further in operative communication with a NPAC database, said processor being further configured to flag the telephone number to be called as a cellular telephone if the telephone number to be called is found in said NPAC database; said processor being further configured to process said NPAC identification step before processing said NPANXX identification step, said OCN identification step, said voice mail short code identification step and said voice mail short code association step; said processor being further configured to process said NPANXX identification step, said OCN identification step, said voice mail short code identification step and said voice mail short code association step only if said NPAC identification step flags the telephone number to be called is flagged as a cellular telephone; said processor being further configured to retrieve a call list from a call list database, said call list having telephone numbers to be called; said processor being further configured to retrieve a telephone number to be called from said retrieved call list; said processor being in operative communication with a communications network and being configured to call the retrieved telephone number to be called and to apply the voice mail short code associated with the telephone number called when a voice mail outgoing greeting is detected such that the broadcast message is not cut off by an outgoing voice mail greeting message.