Patent Document ID: 8442496
Application ID: 13616198

Base Claim:
1. A method, for operating a voicemail system, comprising: receiving a call for a called party at the voicemail system, the voicemail system comprising a stored language preference for the called party; prompting a calling party to leave a message; creating the message; providing a plurality of calling-party-selected language preferences; prompting the calling party to select, from the plurality of calling-party-selected language preferences, a calling-party-selected language preference for the message; in response to prompting the calling party to select, from the plurality of calling-party-selected language preferences, the calling-party-selected language preference for the message, receiving the calling-party-selected language preference for the message; overriding the stored language preference for the called party with the calling-party-selected language preference; determining whether the message is in the calling-party-selected language preference; and in response to overriding the stored language preference with the calling-party-selected language preference, and if the message is not in the calling-party-selected preferred language identified by the language preference, translating the message into a preferred language of the calling-party-selected preferred language preference, thereby creating a translated message.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein overriding the stored language preference for the called party with the calling-party-selected language preference comprises overriding the stored language preference for the called party with the calling-party-selected language preference in response to a trigger initiated by the calling party to perform the override.