Patent ID: 7916853

Claim:
A method for providing calendar based routing of communications, the method comprising: receiving a communication from a sending party to a receiving party, the communication including a communication type; retrieving a current calendar entry for the receiving party in response to receiving the communication, the current calendar entry including a calendar entry type, the calendar entry type associated to the calendar entry by a calendaring system; retrieving a list of destinations in response to retrieving a current calendar entry type for the receiving party, the destinations associated to the calendar entry type and the communication type; determining a destination for the communication, the determining responsive to the list of destinations, the communication type and the current calendar entry type; and transmitting the communication to the destination; where in determining a destination includes: accessing a storage device containing information about the receiving party, the storage device including calendar entry types and communication types with corresponding target destinations; looking up the current calendar entry type and the communication type in the storage device; and assigning the corresponding target destination to the destination.