Patent ID: 8712385

Claim:
An article of manufacture, comprising: at least one non-transitory machine readable medium; and programming embodied in the at least one medium, wherein execution of the programming by a processor of each of one or more elements of a mobile communication network configures the network to implement functions, including functions to: (a) receive an incoming call for a destination mobile station accessible for communication through the mobile communications network; (b) duplicate audio of the incoming call such that the audio of the incoming call and the duplicate audio form two copies of the audio of the incoming call; and (c) direct one of the copies of the audio of the incoming call to a voicemail platform; and (d) while directing one of the copies of the audio of the incoming call to the voicemail platform, direct another of the copies of the audio of the incoming call through the mobile communication network to the destination mobile station, to enable audible output of the another the copies of the audio of the incoming call from the destination mobile station as the one of the copies of the audio of the incoming call is being recorded at the voicemail platform.