Patent ID: 7400879

Claim:
A method for conducting mobile communications, comprising: providing a communication server for a plurality of users, the server having an electronic attendant that greets users; an interface to a telecommunications network for speech communication; and an interface to a computer network; coupling the communication server to a corporate information system (CIS), the CIS including storage for corporate information including emails and servers including an email server; providing a plurality of speech terminals for a plurality of users, the speech terminals coupled to the communication server through at least one of the public telecommunications network or the private telecommunications network providing access to data in the CIS through voice or digital signals received in the communication server from the speech terminals; distributing calls to the speech terminals using the electronic attendant; asking outside users to record voicemail messages if the party being called is not reached; recording the voicemail messages in the communication server; transferring and storing all the recorded messages from the communication server to the CIS; and caching information from the CIS on the communication server, whereby the communication server does not rely on user information databases of its own.