Patent ID: 6990514

Claim:
A method in an application server for executing a voice messaging application, the method comprising: receiving, from a browser, a first HTTP request for execution of a prescribed voice messaging application operation for a subscriber; accessing attribute information for the subscriber from an Internet Protocol (IP) based database server configured for storing subscriber attributes; accessing an IP-based messaging server for subscriber messaging information based on the accessed attribute information, each stored message on the IP-based messaging server being stored within a corresponding e-mail message as a URL encoded string with the corresponding header information so that each stored message is encoded in the URL encoded string; generating an HTML page, for execution of the prescribed voice messaging application operation and having media content and control tags, based on the first HTTP request and the subscriber messaging information; wherein the prescribed voice messaging operation specifies one of: (1) requesting storage of a first message, having been generated according to a corresponding media type having a corresponding Multipurpose Internet Media Extension (MIME) type, in the IP-based messaging server, and (2) presenting in the HTML page a second message, having been stored in the IP-based messaging server, according to a corresponding media type with the corresponding MIME type, the method further comprising: converting the corresponding message associated with the prescribed voice messaging operation between the corresponding media type and a corresponding e-mail message, having a header specifying the corresponding MIME type and having the corresponding URL encoded string as an attachment, for transfer of the corresponding message between the browser and the IP-based messaging server.