Patent ID: 8503622

Claim:
A method to selectively retrieve Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) messages, the method comprising: storing the VoIP messages; associating one or more descriptors with the stored VoIP messages; displaying at least some of the VoIP messages and one or more of the descriptors associated with the displayed VoIP messages, wherein a descriptor in the one or more descriptors comprises a security status of an associated VoIP message from the displayed VoIP messages; receiving a designation, the designation indicating a designated VoIP message from the displayed VoIP messages; and retrieving the designated VoIP message, the retrieving comprising: matching the designation with one or more stored values corresponding to the one or more descriptors of the displayed VoIP messages; determining that none of the stored values exactly matches the designation; and retrieving a VoIP message associated with a descriptor whose value is similar to the designation, the retrieved VoIP message being the designated VoIP message.