Patent ID: 8255470

Claim:
A method for managing messages in a Unified Messaging (UM) platform, comprising: depositing a message from a sender into a UM mailbox of a recipient; determining whether the sender of the message is a UM subscriber; if the sender is a UM subscriber, depositing one of a copy of the message and a link to the message in a UM mailbox of the sender; and if the sender is not a UM subscriber: sending a recall message including a randomly generated message recall URL to the sender, receiving a message recall request associated with the message in response to a selection of the subscriber of the randomly generated message recall URL, determining if the randomly generated message recall URL is valid, if the randomly generated message recall URL is valid, deleting the message from the UM mailbox of the recipient, and if the randomly generated message recall URL is not valid, notifying the sender that the message can not be recalled.