Patent ID: 8484344
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: one or more computing devices detecting an unsuccessful communication attempt to a mobile receiving device; at least one of the one or more computing devices accessing a contact list associated with the mobile receiving device, wherein the contact list maintains names, contact numbers, and email addresses; at least one of the one or more computing devices determining one or more proximate devices to the mobile recipient device, wherein each of the one or more proximate devices are communication devices of a contact of the contact list; and at least one of the one or more computing devices conveying a digitally encoded message to at least one of the one or more proximate devices, wherein said digitally encoded message indicates that a communication attempt with the mobile receiving device was unsuccessful and requests a recipient of the digitally encoded message inform a holder of the mobile receiving device of the unsuccessful communication attempt, wherein the computer program instructions only convey the message to a detected communication device when the unsuccessful communication attempt is identified as being an important communication attempt.