Patent ID: 8203951

Claim:
A device, comprising: an unavailability determiner configured to determine whether a first party is unavailable for an internet telephony session; a voice message recorder configured to record a voice message in response to an unavailability of the first party; a voice message segmentor configured to segment the voice message that is recorded into voice-message segments, each of the voice-message segments having a size that does not exceed a threshold capacity of a voice buffer; an electronic message preparation logic configured to prepare electronic messages recursively for the voice-message segments, wherein each of the electronic messages corresponds to a separate one of the voice-message segments, wherein the electronic message preparation logic comprises: a caller information logic configured to determine caller information; an electronic message header logic configured to generate an electronic message header for each of the electronic messages, wherein each of the electronic messages is an email; and a voice buffer attachment logic configured to attach each of the voice-message segments to the separate one of the electronic messages, wherein the electronic message preparation logic is further configured to forward the electronic messages to a predetermined forwarding address; and a call controller configured to determine whether a proper delivery of each of the electronic messages has occurred, the call controller further configured to clear the voice buffer in response to a determination of the proper delivery of each of the electronic messages.