Patent ID: 9426280
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a communications device, an incoming electronic communication associated with a communications address; querying, by the communications device, an electronic database for the communications address, the electronic database having electronic database associations between different communications addresses and different suppression timing parameters for silencing alerts; retrieving, by the communications device, a suppression timing parameter of the different suppression timing parameters in the electronic database, the suppression timing parameter having an electronic database association with the communications address, the suppression timing parameter describing an amount of time; processing, by the communications device, an initial alert of the alerts, the alert providing notification to initially alert of the incoming communication; and automatically suppressing, by the communications device, subsequent alerts of the alerts while receiving the incoming electronic communication, the subsequent alerts automatically suppressed for the amount of time after the initial alert according to the suppression timing parameter retrieved from the electronic database.