CALLING PARTY MESSAGE RESPONSE METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

CALLING PARTY MESSAGE RESPONSE METHOD AND APPARATUS A telephone user may rapidly lose whatever good humour and patience with which he or she may have approached their day, after placing a few telephone calls, only to be exposed to several lengthy voice message service dissertations before having been able to deposit a simple message. As a remedy, the telephone user is provided with a calling party automated response feature, which permits a calling party to initiate a delivery of their own pre-recorded message, and then hang up. The calling party automated response feature monitors the called party's voice message solicitation and at the appropriate moment transmits a voice message having been previously deposited by the calling party for this purpose. Apparatus for providing the feature may be centrally located or be co-located with the calling party's telephone set.