Patent ID: 6954517

Claim:
A method of providing more than one communication service on a single circuit card having a predefined plurality of audio segments, the method comprising the steps of: defining a first announcement of a first communication service said first announcement comprising a first group of audio segments selected from said plurality of audio segments; defining second announcement of a second communication service said second announcement comprising a second group of audio segments selected from said plurality of audio segments; comparing said first and second groups of audio segments to identify common audio segments from said first and second groups of audio segments and unique audio segments from said first and second group of audio segments; removing all audio segments from said plurality of audio segments on said single circuit card which are not within said unique and common subsets of audio segments; and programming said circuit card to deliver, in response to a user selection of either said first or second communication service, a complete announcement for said respective service composed from said unique and common audio segments.