Patent ID: 7042989

Claim:
A method for implementing a flexible call alert service comprising: receiving, from a message sending subscriber, a message, information of a plurality of recipients of the message who are each different from the message sending subscriber, and a time when the message is to be delivered to the plurality of recipients over a telephone system, the message, information and time each being received via a web client and via a service node having voice recognition functionality, both the web client and the service node interfacing with a personal call manager that allows a subscriber to customize and execute a plurality of telecommunications services including the flexible call alert service; determining that the time input by the message sending subscriber has been reached; initiating delivery of the message to the plurality of recipients, using a plurality of addresses for at least one of the recipients, when the time has been determined to have been reached, delivery of the message to the recipients including a special ring indicating the flexible call alert message is being received; and stopping the delivery of the message to the recipients having the plurality of addresses after the at least one recipient has received the message repeating the initiating at a default repeat time, default repeat time interval, subscriber set repeat time, or subscriber set repeat time interval when the subscriber does not receive the message; and terminating the repeating at a subscriber set terminating time, previously set terminating time, or a set number of repeats when the subscriber has received the message.