Patent ID: 9723142
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method of indicating a priority level for a call from a caller to a callee on an electronic communication network, the method comprising: receiving, at a callee's mobile device from a caller's mobile device, data corresponding to the priority level, the data corresponding to the priority level representing the priority level set by the caller's mobile device at the time of initiation of the call by the caller's mobile device; providing an indication on the callee's mobile device of the priority level at a time that the call is indicated by the callee's mobile device as incoming; and performing on the callee's mobile device one or more special behaviors corresponding to the priority level when the callee's mobile device answers the call, wherein the one or more special behaviors comprise changing one or more functions of applications executing on the callee's mobile device for the duration of the call based on the priority level.