Patent ID: 8855723
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of a smart phone including a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a display, the method comprising: receiving into a user interface of the smart phone, indications of temporally authorized or unauthorized phone numbers; receiving into the user interface of the smart phone, indications of time periods during which the temporally authorized or unauthorized phone numbers are temporally authorized or unauthorized; generating a list of temporally authorized or unauthorized phone numbers and time periods based on said received indications of temporally authorized or unauthorized phone numbers and time periods; storing the list of temporally authorized or unauthorized phone numbers and time periods in the memory of the smart phone; comparing, using instructions executed by the processor of the smart phone, phone numbers and times of incoming phone calls and incoming text messages against the list of temporally authorized or unauthorized phone numbers and time periods; if a number of an incoming phone call or incoming text message and is temporally allowed, allowing for notification of the incoming phone call or incoming text messages according to a default notification routine of the smart phone; and if the number of the incoming phone call or incoming text message is not temporally allowed, not allowing for notification of the incoming phone call or incoming text according to the normal notification routine and generating a notification of the incoming call or incoming text according to a password-protected masked notification routine of the smart phone, wherein the default notification routine of the smart phone includes immediately displaying incoming phone call or incoming text message information on the display of the smart phone and adding an indication of the incoming phone call or incoming text message to a default phone log or message log of the smart phone, and wherein the password-protected masked notification routine of the smart phone includes adding an indication of the incoming phone call or incoming text message to a password-protected phone log or message log of the smart phone and precludes immediately displaying the incoming phone call or incoming text message information on the display of the smart phone, and further precludes adding an indication of the incoming phone call or incoming text message to a default phone log or message log of the smart phone.