Patent ID: 7079630

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: one or more voicemail system components that employ an internet protocol network to store or access one or more voicemail messages on one or more storage devices, wherein the one or more voicemail system components are coupled with the one or more storage devices through the internet protocol network; wherein the one or more voicemail system components comprise a first voice mailbox and a second voice mailbox; wherein the first voice mailbox comprises an address of a location on a storage device, of the one or more storage devices; wherein the second voice mailbox comprises the address; wherein the address is employable by the one or more voicemail system components to access a voicemail message, of the one or more voicemail messages, on the storage device; the apparatus in combination with the one or more storage devices, wherein the storage device of the one or more storage devices comprises one or more linked lists that are associated with the voicemail message of the one or more voicemail messages on the storage device of the one or more storage devices; wherein the one or more linked lists comprise the address of the location on one or more of the one or more voicemail system components; wherein the location corresponds to one or more of the first voice mailbox and the second voice mailbox on the one or more of the one or more voicemail system components; and wherein the one or more of the first voice mailbox and the second voice mailbox are associated with one or more intended recipients of the voicemail message of the one or more voicemail messages; wherein the storage device of the one or more storage devices serves to delete the voicemail message of the one or more voicemail messages upon deletion of a reference to the voicemail message from each of the first voice mailbox and the second voice mailbox.