| 摘要 |
A video server 7 for use in a telecommunications network having an audio service 5 is described. The video server is operable to provide a user of the telecommunications network with video content and also to provide the user with audio content retrieved by the video server from the audio service. The audio service may, for example, be a voice mail service. Thus a user wishing to access their voice mailbox to retrieve voice mail messages may use their video phone to establish a video call with the video server, and the video server may then establish a voice call to the voice mail service to retrieve audio content, e.g. stored messages or announcements by the voice mail audio service. The video server may then route / relay the audio content from the audio service to the user along with video content generated by the video server, or received by the video server from another source, such as a video stream or a storage medium. The video content provided in conjunction with the audio content may be provided simultaneously with the audio content or at a different time. The video server may provide a videophone user with single point of access for retrieving videomail and voicemail messages via a visual user interface and the video server may obtain up to date information about received voicemails via short message service (SMS) alerts (fig.3) or via a data connection (9, fig.2) to the voicemail server. |
