Method and apparatus for facilitating the making of collect...

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H04M 3/48 (2006.01) H04M 3/51 (2006.01) H04M 3/533 (2006.01) H04M 15/08 (2006.01)

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CA 2121756

When a caller making a collect call encounters a busy called party or one that does not answer after a prescribed time, the telephone network offers the caller the opportunity to store a voice message in a messaging system at no charge to the caller. After the caller stores a message, one or more attempts are made to establish a connection between the messaging system and the called party's telephone. This may be done by periodically alerting the called party's telephone when it is in an on-hook state. When the called party answers, e.g., by going off-hook, the messaging system informs the called party that a collect voice message awaits him and asks if he is willing to pay to receive same. If the called partysignals that he is willing to pay to receive the voice message, the messaging system plays the stored voice message from the collect caller and signals the telephonenetwork to charge the account of the called party for supplying the message. If the called party signals that he is unwilling to pay to receive the voice message, the message is not delivered.

Quand un demandeur effectuant un appel téléphonique à frais virés obtient un signal d'occupation de ligne ou quand l'abonné demandé n'a pas répondu après un intervalle prédéterminé, le réseau téléphonique offre au demandeur la possibilité de stocker sans frais un message vocal dans un système de messagerie. Après le stockage du message, une ou deux tentatives de connexion du système de messagerie et du téléphone de l'abonné demandé sont effectuées. Ceci peut se faire en avertissant périodiquement le téléphone de l'abonné demandé quand son combiné est raccroché. Quand l'abonné demandé répond, c'est-à-dire quand il décroche le combiné, le système de messagerie l'informe qu'il y a un message vocal à frais virés et lui demande s'il accepte d'assumer les frais pour recevoir le message. Si l'abonné demandé accepte, le système de messagerie fait entendre le message vocal enregistré par le demandeur et commande au réseau téléphonique de facturer le message au compte de l'abonné demandé. Si l'abonné demandé n'accepte pas d'assumer les frais, le message n'est pas transmis.

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