Voicemail Server Custom Greeting Personalization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Voicemail systems provide generic greetings when retrieving messages, failing to personalize the caller identification based on user-defined contacts, which does not preserve user individuality or custom settings.
Innovation Solution
A method and system where a voicemail server uses a user's address book to identify and announce a custom name associated with the caller's identifier, transforming the generic greeting into a personalized one, allowing users to configure custom greetings for known and unknown callers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a generic voicemail greeting is used, then the system operation is simple and fast, but the user individuality and custom settings are not preserved
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by storing user-defined custom names and identifiers in an address book before voicemail retrieval. When a voicemail is left, the system pre-associates the caller's identifier with their custom name, so that during retrieval, the personalized greeting can be immediately generated without complex real-time processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an address book as an intermediary component that stores the mapping between caller identifiers and user-defined custom names. This intermediary layer decouples the complexity of personalization logic from the voicemail retrieval process, allowing the system to maintain simplicity while providing adaptability.
2Loss of information
If caller identification is personalized using user-defined contacts, then user individuality is preserved, but the system requires additional processing and data management
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs the identification work in advance by storing custom names and their associated identifiers in an address book. When a voicemail is retrieved, the system simply looks up the pre-stored identifier rather than performing complex real-time analysis, thus maintaining high identification accuracy while minimizing processing time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a simplified copy of the caller's information (custom name) from the original identifier, storing it in advance in the address book. This copy allows for rapid retrieval and presentation during voicemail playback without requiring access to the full original data structure, reducing processing time while preserving identification accuracy.
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AI summary
Ways of presenting a custom greeting to a user who retrieves a voicemail that was left by a caller are disclosed. In one embodiment, a voicemail server facilitates storing a voicemail in connection with an identifier that is associated with a calling device that was used by a caller in an attempt to call the user. A user-specific name is automatically retrieved based on the identifier. This name can be retrieved from the user's mobile device or from a remote address book. When the user retrieves his or her messages, the voicemail server presents a custom announcement introducing the message, where the custom announcement is based on the name retrieved.