Patent ID: 7225126

Claim:
A method for processing voicemail messages, the method comprising: transcribing a plurality of voicemail messages, only after storing a predetermined number of the plurality of voice mail messages for a certain user, to produce a plurality of voicemail message transcripts; indexing the plurality of voicemail message transcripts, each word in the plurality of voicemail message transcripts being indexed relative to an occurrence of a corresponding word in the plurality of voicemail messages; providing the plurality of voicemail message transcripts to one or more users; receiving at least one selection action from the one or more users, the at least one selection action identifying a portion of one or more of the voicemail message transcripts for delivery to one or more parties identified by the one or more users; and providing the identified portion of the one or more voicemail message transcripts to the one or more parties specified by the one or more users.