Patent ID: 7379421

Claim:
A device connected to a network, wherein the device comprises: an unavailability determiner configured to determine whether a first party is unavailable for an Internet telephony session; a voice message recorder located within the device, wherein the voice message recorder is configured to record a voice message in response to an unavailability of the first party; a message generator configured to generate an electronic message, to attach the recorded voice message to the generated electronic message, and to forward the electronic message having the attached recorded voice message to a predetermined forwarding address, a call controller configured to determine whether proper delivery of the forwarded electronic message has occurred; and a voice message segmentor configured to segment the voice message into multiple voice-message segments, wherein the size of each of the multiple voice-message segments does not exceed the threshold capacity of the voice buffer, wherein each segment of the voice message is recursively recorded and transmitted until the entire message has been recorded and transmitted.