Patent ID: 7673055

Claim:
A method of responding to a received interrupt event for a user of a communication device, comprising: accessing data associated from at least one of a plurality of applications operating on said communication device to determine a current state of availability of said user; accessing a database of response actions for incoming communications, said database listing response action categories against interrupt events, to attempt to determine a level of importance for said interrupt event based on source information of said interrupt event and if said database contains a record for said interrupt event, then determining whether a response action is to be sent in response to said interrupt event based on said level of importance when said communication device is in said current state of availability; if said response action is to be sent, building said response action for said communication device having context data associated with at least one application operating on said communication device, said level of importance being used to determine a level of detail provided by said context data; and sending said response action from said communication device to another device to a sender associated With said interrupt event; and upon a change of said current state of availability, providing a notice on said communication device indicating previous response actions sent during a previous state of unavailability, said notice providing a link to initiate a response communication with said another device.