Patent ID: 8391454
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having a computer readable program embodied thereon, wherein the computer readable program, when executed in a data processing system, causes the data processing system to: receive, in a recipient device, a call from a caller, wherein the call comprises an identification of a caller; determine if the recipient device is in a phone management mode; responsive to the recipient device being in the phone management mode, block recipient notification of time call cm the recipient device; determine if the call originates from a set of known callers based on the identification of the caller; responsive to identifying that the caller is a known caller in the set of known callers, respond to the known caller with a caller specific response message based on the identification of the caller, wherein the caller specific response message is at least one of a interactive caller specific response message or a non interactive caller specific response message and wherein the interactive response message includes a code with which to respond to the recipient device; and responsive to the response message being the interactive response message and the caller entering the code associated with the interactive response message, activate the recipient notification of the call on the recipient device.