摘要 |
A method and apparatus for retrieving voicemail messages transmitted in packet networks such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, the customer subscribes to a voicemail service and enables a customer premise equipment to access the endpoint device used to receive email containing the audio files from the voicemail service. The customer equipment accesses the emails, retrieves the attached audio files for the voice messages and transfers the messages to a recording device with capability to play all the messages at the same time, e.g., in a continuous or consecutive manner as in an answering machine with a single user input. |