Patent ID: 8451995

Claim:
A method, in a data processing system, for indicating a specific response message to be played to a caller, the method comprising: receiving, in a recipient device, a call from a caller, wherein the call comprises an identification of a caller; determining lithe recipient device is in a phone management mode; responsive to the recipient device being in the phone management mode, blocking a recipient notification of the call on the recipient device; determining 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, responding 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, activating the recipient notification of the call on the recipient device.