Patent ID: 8671149

Claim:
A unified messaging platform having computer-implemented content conversion based on recipient designation, the platform comprising: a user store database communicatively coupled to a proxy server, the user store database containing an array of logical preferences set by a user of the messaging platform, the logical preferences defining a singular message format for delivery of a recipient-targeted communication, wherein the logical preferences include an indication of preferred user selected portions of the recipient-targeted communication; the proxy server operable to: receive the recipient-targeted communication selected from the group consisting of an email, a text message, a fax, and a voice message; identify the recipient-targeted communication for a recipient; tag the identified recipient-targeted communication; receive the user's logical preferences; determine a preferred user selected portion in the recipient-targeted communication based upon the user's logical preferences, the preferred user selected portion being selected based on a type of information contained therein; and send only the preferred user selected portion in the recipient-targeted communication to the user; 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 user; and an IVR server functionally integrated with a 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 user'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, and associate the caller with the user store database, responsive to the PIN and the corresponding password correctly identifying the registered user.