Patent ID: 8605737

Claim:
A method for using voice messages in telecommunications connections, comprising: establishing at a gateway, which represents an interface between a first communication network and a second communication network, a connection establishment or data of a through-connected telecommunications connection routed from a calling end system via said first communication network, routing the connection establishment or data of the through-connected telecommunications connection from the gateway via at least the second communication network to a called end system, detecting in the gateway a standardized voice message concerning the telecommunications connection, which is provided to be transmitted to the calling end system, wherein the standardized voice message comprises defined values with respect to at least one of word count, word length, and spacing between individual words, and taking an action by the gateway concerning the telecommunications connection or the gateway in response to an evaluation of the standardized voice message detected in the gateway, wherein the evaluation of the standardized voice message is made with regard to its pause-sound information, with a pattern recognition being effected in that the length of the individual words and/or the length of the pauses between the individual words and/or the number of the individual words of the standardized voice message are detected.