| 摘要 |
<p>A telephone system (10) with extension telephones (e.g., 12) and voice mail features allows an extension owner to monitor a message at is is being left in voice mail. The monitoring method may be implemented in a system with a simple extension telephone or with an extension including a second communication channel (48, 32) to a display screen (20). If the monitoring begins later than the time when the caller began leaving the message, monitoring may commence at a midpoint of the message, or, with a delay, from the beginning of the message, playing back at a rate faster than real time to catch up with real time. For extensions with a display screen (20), each call received by the system for the extension creates an entry in a call log for the extension and, for each such entry where a message was left, the called party may play back the message by selecting on the screen the call log entry for that call.</p> |
