Patent ID: 7903692

Claim:
A network switch, comprising: communications logic configured to facilitate communication with a communications device over a telecommunications network; and a first processor coupled to the communications logic, the first processor configured to perform at least the following during a telephone call to the communications device over the telecommunications network: route a recorded announcement to the communications device, wherein the recorded announcement is stored as an audio signal of a voice file which represents spoken words of the recorded announcement; route an alerting tone to the communications device, the alerting tone configured to indicate that a text message will be sent; and route the text message to the communications device, after routing the recorded announcement to the communications device, wherein the recorded announcement is audibly presented followed by presentation of the alerting tone, followed by presentation of the text message, where audible presentation of the recorded announcement is suspended for presentation of the alerting tone, wherein the audio signal comprises a Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) signal of ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) binary characters that represent the text message of the recorded announcement and that are capable of being displayed by the communications device in the form of a text message, wherein the text message for the recorded announcement is stored in its entirety with the recorded announcement or separately from it.