Patent ID: 7177412

Claim:
A multi-media communication management system for operation with a plurality of subscriber stations, the multi-media communication management system comprising: a network communication circuit for multi-media communication with said plurality of subscriber stations; a control module for establishing a communication session with each of the subscriber stations through the network communication circuit, the control module comprising: means for receiving an indication of a plurality of recipients to receive a multicast message; means for identifying a plurality of recipient subscriber stations, each recipient subscriber station being one of the subscriber stations that is associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of recipients; means for transmitting a message to each one of the recipient subscriber stations to participate in a session group; means for multicasting a voice message to the recipient subscriber stations that are participating in said session group means for identifying a plurality of recipients that are not associated with any of the subscriber stations; and means for sending an audio file comprising the voice mail message to a plurality of e-mail address, each email address being associated with one of the plurality of recipients that are not associated with any of the subscriber stations.