Patent ID: 8706912

Claim:
A unified messaging platform having computer-implemented content conversion based on recipient designation, the platform comprising: a user store database server operable to: receive a recipient-targeted communication from a registered user selected from the group consisting of an email, a text message, a fax, and a voice message; tag the identified recipient-targeted communication as coming from the group consisting of an email, a text message, a fax, and a voice message; associate the recipient-targeted communication with a stored contact associated with the registered user; the stored contact containing one or more available methods for receiving the recipient-targeted communication; the user store database communicatively coupled to a proxy server, the user store database containing an array of logical preferences for message format, the logical preferences defining a plurality of alternative message formats for delivery of the recipient-targeted communications based upon the tagged recipient-targeted communication; determine whether tagged recipient-targeted communication matches the one or more available methods for receiving the recipient-targeted communication; identify the array of logical preferences for message format based upon a determination the tagged recipient-targeted communication does not match the one or more available methods for receiving the recipient-targeted communication; select a converted message format based upon the array of logical preferences; the proxy server operable to: receive the tagged recipient-targeted communication and converted message format; convert the tagged recipient-targeted communication to the one or more available methods for receiving the recipient-targeted communication; send a converted recipient-targeted communication to the stored contact; a voice-gateway server containing a text-to-speech engine for automatically converting the recipient-targeted communication to an audio message format as defined by the user's logical preferences, wherein the converted message is delivered in the audio message format to the stored contact; and a customized IVR server that is functionally integrated with the database server and the voice-gateway server operable to: send an audio rendering of the preferred user selected portion of the recipient-targeted communication to the stored contact's phone, receive a caller's phone number, compare the caller's phone number to a stored list of registered phone numbers, wherein each the registered phone number is associated with a registered user, associate the caller with a registered user account, responsive to the comparison resulting in a match, request additional information, responsive to the comparison not resulting in a match, wherein the additional information includes a PIN and a corresponding password, each the PIN and the corresponding password associated to a registered user, associate the caller with the user store database, responsive to the PIN and the corresponding password correctly identifying the registered user.