Patent Document ID: 8098800
Application ID: 11969074

Base Claim:
1. A bulletin board messaging system service, comprising: enabling a caller to indicate a selected bulletin board from a plurality of bulletin boards associated with a subscriber telephone number; enabling the caller to indicate a selected public message option from a group consisting of a recording public message option and a listening to public messages option; enabling the caller to indicate, upon providing an applicable personal identification number, a selected private message option from a group consisting of a recording private message option and a listening to private messages option; and responsive to the caller successfully indicating the selected public message option: recording a voice message of the caller; storing the voice message in a tangible storage medium; and associating the voice message stored in the tangible storage medium with the selected bulletin board.

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Claim 2:
2. The service of claim 1 , wherein a personal identification number applicable to the recording private message option differs from a personal identification number applicable to the listening to private messages option.