Patent ID: 8731527

Claim:
Non-transitory, tangible, computer storage medium of a mobile communication device having stored thereon a voicemail application for the mobile communication device, which voicemail application is configured to cause a processor in the mobile communication device to: analyze voicemail messages in a voicemail box of a voicemail server to determine whether the voicemail messages in the voicemail box cause the voicemail box to meet a mailbox preservation criterion; mark for deletion at least one of the voicemail messages in the voicemail box upon determining that the voicemail box meets the mailbox preservation criterion; analyze the voicemail messages in the voicemail box, to determine whether the one or more voicemail messages in the voicemail box meet a message preservation criterion indicating a need to preserve the one or more voicemail messages; mark for deletion, each one of the voicemail messages in the voicemail box determined to meet the message preservation criterion; cause a replica of each of the marked voicemail messages to be made; and cause each replicated message to be stored outside of the voicemail server.