Patent ID: 8374318

Claim:
A voicemail system, for managing a voicemail account that is associated with a subscriber identification corresponding to a mobile terminal, comprising: a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising: associating a plurality of voicemail greetings for the voicemail account with multiple context tags, each voicemail greeting of the plurality of voicemail greetings being associated with at least one of the multiple context tags; receiving a context message from a context device configured to receive the subscriber identification from the mobile terminal by way of a short-range communication and to create and send the context message, the context message including the subscriber identification and a context tag related to the context device; selecting the voicemail account based upon the subscriber identification received with the context message; selecting an applicable voicemail greeting of the plurality of voicemail greetings based on the context tag received with the context message; and setting the applicable voicemail greeting as an active voicemail greeting for the voicemail account.