Patent ID: 6859526

Claim:
A computer program product for causing a communications information management system to manage communications data, the program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied in the medium that when executed by a processor causes the management system to: receive a plurality of incoming phone calls directly from the public switched telephone network, at least one of said plurality of incoming phone calls including video communications data; determine communications origination identity data for each of said plurality of phone calls using a processor; record a video message from said video communications data included with said at least one of said plurality of phone calls with a recorder locally connected to said processor; determine a time of occurrence and a duration time for each of said phone calls using said processor; create a communications record for each of said plurality of communications using said processor, said record comprising said identity data for each of said plurality of phone calls, a time of occurrence for said phone calls, a duration time for said phone calls and an indication of the existence of a recorded message for said record; display a plurality of said records on a visual display locally connected to said recorder and said processor, said visual display having a selector for selecting a particular record from any of said records regardless of record sequence; generate a selection interrupt upon selection of one of said plurality of records; and, respond to said selection interrupt corresponding to selection of said record corresponding to said at least one of said plurality of incoming calls by playing said recorded video message.