Patent ID: 8036349
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method of ordering telephone messages left for a first user having a first telephone number, the method comprising: associating the first telephone number with a second telephone number of a second user that has a relationship with the first user; tracking incoming and outgoing telephone calls to and from the first and second telephone numbers; storing a plurality of telephone messages received by the first user in response to a plurality of missed incoming telephone calls to the first telephone number, wherein each telephone message is associated with an originating user; for each telephone message among the plurality of telephone messages, assigning such telephone message to one of first, second, and third groups, including: sorting the plurality of telephone messages for playback such that each telephone message in the first group is ordered earlier than each telephone message in the second group, and such that each telephone message in the second group is ordered earlier than each telephone message in the third group.