Patent ID: 7292679

Claim:
A method of submitting a message to an addressee's telephone, comprising: when sending a message from a first caller to a first addressee in a system comprising a voice messaging server, an addressee telephone subscribing to the voice messaging server, a directory device, and a multimedia messaging server center exchanging data via a telecommunications network, the directory device comprising a database divided into a plurality of addressee storage spaces, each addressee storage space being for one subscriber of plural subscribers of the voice messaging server, each addressee storage space comprising a subscriber address book of plural callers and identification of each caller including an illustration representing each caller, a first step of depositing the message, from the first caller to the first addressee, in an inbox of the first addressee in the voice messaging server, a second step of sending, from the voice messaging server to the directory device, a request to have the directory device search a first addressee storage space for an illustration associated with the first caller, the search providing a first caller illustration; a third step of sending, from the directory device to the voice messaging server, the first caller illustration; a fourth step of sending the content of the deposited message and the first caller illustration from the voice messaging server to the multimedia messaging server center; and a fifth step of sending, from the multimedia server to a telephone of the first addressee, a multimedia message comprising the content of the deposited message, uncoverted, combined with the first caller illustration, the multimedia message configured for direct consultation on the telephone of the first addressee.