Patent ID: 7042990

Claim:
A method for parametrizing a greeting message of a voice mailbox characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a first user records a greeting message at a first terminal, the greeting message is compressed at the first terminal, a multimedia message comprising the compressed greeting message is produced at the first terminal, the multimedia message comprises an instruction field to indicate that it is a greeting message, the multimedia message is sent from the first terminal to a greeting message server, a second user gets connected, through a second terminal, to a voice mail service of a voice mail server, a request is sent from the voice mail server to the greeting message server, the request comprising a called user identifier, the greeting message in a database corresponding to the called user identifier is sent, from the greeting message server and to the voice mail server, the greeting message is sent from the voice mail server and to the second terminal, the greeting message is sent out acoustically to the second terminal.