Voicemail Message Parser Discards Non-Message Portions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile voicemail systems require significant connectivity time and storage or server changes to allow local storage of voice messages, making them inefficient for frequent access and storage.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device with a network interface, message parser, and storage device that discards non-message portions of voicemail access sessions, such as silent prompts, and transcodes message portions for local storage, reducing airtime usage and server modifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If the mobile device locally stores the entire voicemail session, then the user can access messages without significant connectivity time, but the mobile device requires a substantial amount of storage
Solution Approach 1:
The voicemail session is divided into two segments: message portions (actual voice messages) and non-message portions (prompts, navigation instructions). Only the message portions are downloaded to the mobile device for local storage, while non-message portions remain on the server. This segmentation allows the device to store only essential content, reducing storage requirements while maintaining quick access to actual messages.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts and separates the valuable message content from the entire voicemail session, downloading only the extracted message portions to the mobile device. The non-essential prompt portions are left on the server and not downloaded, thereby reducing the storage burden on the mobile device while preserving the core functionality of message access.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the voicemail server retains all message data for later listening, then the user can access messages multiple times, but the user spends significant airtime minutes connecting to the server
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary downloading of message portions to the mobile device during the initial voicemail session. By preparing and storing the message content in advance on the device, the system eliminates the need for repeated connectivity to access the same messages, thereby reducing airtime consumption while maintaining flexible access.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a local copy of the message portions on the mobile device, stored in a message database. This copy allows the user to access messages multiple times without requiring repeated connections to the server, significantly reducing airtime usage while preserving message accessibility and flexibility.
3Ease of operation
If the system downloads and stores all voicemail data locally, then the user has full message access, but the mobile device requires substantial storage capacity
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the voicemail data into message portions and non-message portions, downloading only the message portions to the mobile device. This selective downloading maintains ease of message retrieval while minimizing the storage capacity required on the device.
Solution Approach 2:
The system discards (does not download) the non-message portions such as prompts and navigation instructions, while recovering and storing only the essential message portions locally. This approach maintains full message access convenience while reducing the storage burden on the mobile device.
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AI summary
Methods and devices to retrieve voice messages are disclosed. An example device includes a network interface to access a voicemail server via a network, a message parser to remove a non-message portion of a voicemail access session from a voicemail access session, and a storage device to store the message portion of the voicemail access session.