Patent ID: 8396456

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a first telecommunications terminal from a voicemail management system: (i) a first plurality of voicemail indicia associated with voicemails stored on a first voicemail platform, and (ii) a second plurality of voicemail indicia associated with voicemails stored on a second voicemail platform; displaying, by the first telecommunications terminal, the first plurality of voicemail indicia and the second plurality of voicemail indicia interleaved in a chronological order; receiving, by the first telecommunications terminal, a user input selecting a voicemail indicium from among the indicia that are displayed at the telecommunications terminal; transmitting to the voicemail management system, by the first telecommunications terminal, a signal to retrieve a voicemail message that is associated with the selected voicemail indicium; and receiving, by the first telecommunications terminal, the voicemail message from the voicemail management system, wherein the voicemail message is streamed from the voicemail management system to the first telecommunications terminal, wherein the voicemail management system interleaves the first plurality of voicemail indicia and the second plurality of voicemail indicia into the chronological order that is displayed by the first telecommunications terminal.