Patent ID: 7668557

Claim:
A method for a changing a communication device alarm setting comprising: detecting a presence of a communication device in a network space-time zone, wherein the network space-time zone corresponds to a location, a time, or a circumstance, or combinations thereof and wherein the space-time zone is associated with a preferred alarm setting; and determining an alarm setting of the communication device, wherein the alarm setting comprises a speaker alarm setting, a vibration alarm setting, or a visual alarm setting, or combinations thereof; comparing the alarm setting with the preferred alarm setting; a preconfigured alarm suppression preference to either automatically suppress an alarm or request user intervention to change the alarm setting; selecting an alarm suppression procedure; if the preconfigured alarm suppression preference is to automatically suppress the alarm, then sending an alarm setting change command to the communication device to automatically suppress the alarm based on the alarm setting; and otherwise, if the preconfigured alarm suppression preference is to request user intervention to suppress the alarm then sending an alarm setting change request to the communication device to request user intervention to suppress the alarm the request corresponding to the alarm setting.