Patent ID: 7274777

Claim:
A system for storing messages using multiple communication modalities, the system comprising: (A) a standard telephone system; (B) a standard legacy voicemail system; (C) a digital voicemail store configured to receive digitized messages, the digital voicemail store further being configured to store digitized messages; (D) a network access server (NAS) comprising: (D1) an NAS analog voice port communicatively coupled to the standard telephone system, the NAS analog voice port being configured to receive analog voice signals from the standard telephone system; (D2) an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter configured to digitize the analog voice signals; and (D3) an NAS digital port configured to transmit the digitized signals; and (E) a digital messaging server (DMS) comprising: (E1) a DMS digital port communicatively coupled to the NAS digital port, the DMS digital port further being communicatively coupled to the digital voicemail store, the DMS digital port being configured to receive the digitized signals from the NAS digital port, the DMS digital port further being configured to convey the digitized message to the digital voicemail store; (E2) a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter configured to convert the digitized signal into an analog message; and (E3) a DMS analog port communicatively coupled to the standard legacy voicemail system, the DMS analog voice port being configured to convey the analog message to the standard legacy voicemail system.