Jean Lynn Barkocy

US Patent:

20090214006, Aug 27, 2009

Filed:

Nov 18, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/273088

Inventors:

Fredrick L. Campbell - Mill Valley CA, US
Jean L. Barkocy - San Francisco CA, US
Anthony Levitan - Palo Alto CA, US
Sriraman Srinivasan - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Lexy, Inc. - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

H04M 11/00

US Classification:

379 8813

Abstract:

A system and method for providing enhanced audio messaging services. The system comprises a voice gateway for interfacing with a plurality of telephone devices, a voice messaging server (VMS) and a content server that together enable the execution of the enhanced messaging services. The system further includes a metadata database for maintaining metadata associated with users, messages and content items. The enhanced audio messaging services include, but are not limited to, phone-to-phone sharing of audio content, phone-to-phone sharing of broadcasted radio content, web-to-phone audio content sharing, phone-to-web content sharing, interactive group discussions, and dynamic asynchronous audio messaging.