Patent ID: 8638921

Claim:
A telecommunications apparatus, comprising: a processor; and a computer readable medium with computer-executable instructions stored thereon, that when executed by the processor cause the processor to initiate operations comprising: receiving an instruction from a callee to prevent a caller from establishing a connection with the callee, the receiving including receiving a predetermined code from the callee; identifying a first telephone number associated with the caller by maintaining a record of a most recent telephone number that was a source of a call placed to a second telephone number immediately prior to receiving the instruction from the callee to prevent the caller from establishing the connection with the callee; consulting the record to identify the most recent telephone number as the first telephone number; preventing a phone call from the first telephone number from being forwarded to the second telephone number associated with the callee; and prompting the callee to perform administration tasks including prompting the callee to record a voice message to be played to the caller upon receiving a phone call from the first telephone number.