Personal media storage and retrieval for visual voice mail

摘要

A personal media storage system within a visual voicemail system may be implemented. A visual voicemail server may receive and store multimedia content on a personal media storage system and associate such content with a voicemail. A visual voicemail server may obtain such content if provided with location data for the content rather than the actual content. A visual voicemail client on a wireless device may transmit a request for content to the visual voicemail server, which may retrieve the content and send to the visual voicemail client using the communications link between the visual voicemail client and the visual voicemail server. The visual voicemail client may render the content within the client.

主权项

1. A visual voicemail system comprising:
a memory comprising executable instructions; and a processor coupled to the memory that, when executing the instructions, effectuates operations comprising:
receiving multimedia content location data for indirectly provided multimedia content associated with a visual voicemail message;determining a user preference has been set for obtaining, without additional input from the user, indirectly provided multimedia content associated with visual voicemail messages;responsive to determining the user preference for obtaining, without additional input from the user, indirectly provided multimedia content associated with visual voicemail messages has been set, automatically obtaining the indirectly provided multimedia content associated with the visual voicemail message from a remote device based on the multimedia content location data;transmitting the indirectly provided multimedia content associated with the visual voicemail message to a personal media storage system;receiving a request for the indirectly provided multimedia content associated with the visual voicemail message from a visual voicemail client on a recipient device;retrieving the indirectly provided multimedia content associated with the visual voicemail message from the personal media storage system; andtransmitting the indirectly provided multimedia content associated with the visual voicemail message to the visual voicemail client on the recipient device.