Patent ID: 9706044
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing voicemail, comprising: receiving, at an intermediate server communicatively coupled to a mobile phone associated with a first phone number corresponding to a first contact group and a second phone number corresponding to a second contact group, a request to receive an incoming call associated with a caller phone number, the request corresponding to the first phone number or the second phone number; in response to receiving the request to receive the incoming call, identifying, by the intermediate server, a contact group associated with the request, the identified contact group comprising the first contact group in response to the received request corresponding to the first phone number and the second contact group in response to the received request corresponding to the second phone number, the first contact group and the second contact group each including one or more phone numbers; identifying, by the intermediate server, a voicemail setting associated with the identified contact group, the voicemail setting configured by a user of the mobile device in advance of receiving the request, the voicemail setting defining a first notification for playback to the user and a second notification for playback to a caller; modifying, by the intermediate server, the request to receive the incoming call to include the voicemail setting; and in response to a determination to route the incoming call to voicemail, configuring the voicemail based at least in part on the voicemail setting.