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Abstract

Screening a telephone call made by a calling party includes receiving a telephone call at a messaging service platform and identifying an account associated with the telephone number to which the calling party directed the incoming telephone call. Configuration data related to the account are accessed, and several identities associated with the account are determined based on the configuration data accessed. A first identity is determined from among the several identities based on the configuration data accessed. The availability of the first identity to receive audio data from the messaging service platform is determined. Audio data is transmitted from the messaging service platform to a computer of the first called party associated with the first identity while the calling party is leaving an audio message. The transmission is conditioned on whether the first identity is determined to be available to receive the audio data. Before the calling party finishes leaving the audio message, the first called party perceives at least some of the transmitted audio data.

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