Patent ID: 8335497

Claim:
A method carried out on a cell phone comprising: A) receiving a text message on said cell phone or receiving an incoming cellular phone call on said cell phone; B) receiving a command the user of said cell phone makes by making one or more pushes of a Busy key somewhere on said phone, said one or more pushes of said Busy key causing a function call to be made to an application programmatic interface of an operating system requesting that a Busy application program be launched and that the Busy application be informed whether an incoming text message was just received or an incoming cellular phone call is occurring; C) making a function call to an application programmatic interface of said Busy application requesting that said Busy application be launched, said function call also passing context information from said operating system of said cell phone to said Busy application regarding whether a text message has just been received or whether a cellular phone call is currently occurring; D) if a text message has just been received by said cell phone, automatically selecting the latest text message received and automatically sending a pre-typed text message to the sender of said latest text message without any further interaction with said user of said cell phone; and E) if a cellular phone call is being received, automatically answering an incoming cell phone call and playing a pre-recorded audio message to said caller.