Patent ID: 8284908

Claim:
A method performed by a plurality of servers connected to a plurality of voicemail systems and a plurality of client access points, the method comprising: receiving, by a server of the plurality of servers, notification of a state change relating to a voicemail mailbox of a particular voicemail system of the plurality of voicemail systems; and performing, by one or more servers of the plurality of servers, a plurality of synchronization processes, in parallel, to synchronize the plurality of client access points with regard to the state change, where performing one of the plurality of synchronization processes includes: determining, by one of the one or more servers, that a memory stores an identifier associated with a first client access point of the plurality of client access points, sending, by the one of the one or more servers, information, associated with the state change, to another one of the one or more servers when the memory stores the identifier associated with the first client access point, and notifying, by the other one of the one or more servers, a second client access point, of the plurality of client access points, regarding the state change, where the first client access point is different from the second client access point.