Patent ID: 6857008

Claim:
A method in an application server for accessing a messaging server, the method comprising: receiving, from a browser configured for dynamic control of audio operations, an HTTP request having an audio file that stores received voice signals specifying a messaging operation; identifying the messaging operation in the application server by interpreting the audio file; and outputting a function call specifying the messaging operation to the messaging server according to IP protocol, wherein the step of interpreting the audio file includes: executing a speech recognition process based on a voice command identifier specified in the HTTP request; and identifying by the speech recognition process the corresponding messaging operation and a corresponding operand from the audio file, wherein the outputting step includes selecting the function call based on the identified messaging operation, and supplying with the function call the corresponding operand, the method further comprising: receiving from the messaging server a response to the function call that specifies a stored message; and sending an HTML page to the browser for playback of a second audio file representing the stored message; wherein the step of identifying the corresponding messaging operation and the corresponding operand includes identifying a messaging folder specified by the operand; and the step of outputting the function call includes specifying the message folder within the operand with the corresponding function call, wherein the step of receiving from the messaging server a response includes receiving the stored message as one of an e-mail message and a voice mail message recorded on a stored audio file from the specified messaging folder within the messaging server, the method further comprising: selectively generating the second audio file by the application server based on determining that the stored message is an e-mail message; and selectively supplying the stored audio file as the second audio file based on determining that the stored message is the voice mail message recorded on the stored audio file.