Patent ID: 8284913

Claim:
A method of filtering telephone calls, the method comprising: a computer receiving a call to a called party from a caller; said computer performing a filtering on said call, said filtering comprising: said computer determining if said called party has a calendar entry associated with a scheduled event, said calendar entry comprising a plurality of fields including a date field, a time field, an event field, a subject field, and a list of invitees; responsive to said computer determining that said called party has a scheduled event, said computer determining if said caller is associated with said scheduled event; and responsive to said computer determining that said caller is not associated with said scheduled event: said computer determining if said caller is an exception on an exception list, wherein an exception is a caller for which the called party will always take calls, and wherein said exception list identifies one or more callers from whom the called party will always take calls; and responsive to said computer determining that said caller is an exception, said computer completing said call during said scheduled event.