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September 4, 2012 | Copyright
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 4 -- United States Patent no. 8,254,531, issued on Aug. 28, was assigned to Bookit Oy Ajanvarauspalvelu (Helsinki).
"Method and System for Combining Text and Voice Messages in a Communications Dialogue" was invented by Jukka Salonen (Nurmijarvi, Finland).
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office:
"This publication discloses a method for delivering messages in a telecommunications network. In the method, the first text-form message of the session N is delivered to the user of the service, in such a way that the sender address (e.g., the A number) is converted to correspond to the session number N and the session stage J, in stages 2-n (41) of the session N, a text-form message (40) is received, from the user of the message service, at the sender address defined in the message in the previous stage, and the session proceeds according to the contents of the message, in such a way that the sender address (e. …
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