Patent ID: 7251314

Claim:
A method of forwarding voice messages from a sender to a receiver through a network comprising the steps of: recording at a first voice-mail device a phone number of a receiver and a voice message of the sender within a digital file; encapsulating, by the voicemail device, the voice message and phone number within an e-mail; forwarding the e-mail from the first voice-mail device to a first voice-mail gateway through a network and then to a second voice-mail device through another network; opening the e-mail to obtain the phone number of the receiver and the voice message; predicting near future channel capacities of the voice-mail gateway based on a queuing model and determining a time at which to deliver the voice message, after the predicting, so as to avoid time differences between the sender and the receiver; and dialing the phone number of the receiver and delivering the voice message to the receiver via a cellular telephone network at the determined time.