Patent Document ID: 8565389
Application ID: 12814884

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a network device, a voicemail message; receiving, by the network device, a request from a mobile device to retrieve the voicemail message; requesting, by the network device, a status of a network resource associated with the mobile device, the requesting of the status occurring after receiving the request to retrieve the voicemail message from the mobile device, the network resource comprising at least one of: a router, a switch, a network tower, or a landline; receiving, by the network device, an indication of the status of the network resource; and providing, by the network device, instructions to transcribe, from audio to text, a voicemail message based on the received status of the network resource.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting a voicemail to text descriptor with a visual voicemail message, the voicemail to text descriptor indicating whether the voicemail should be subsequently transcribed when a subscriber level filed is set from off to on.