Patent ID: 8761742

Claim:
A method for communicating a predetermined message to a first phone having an incoming phone number using a second phone, the method comprising: recording a set of text messages in a database that is accessible by the second phone; recording a set of phone numbers in the database; assigning an authorization code to at least one phone number in the set of phone numbers; automatically comparing, in response to an incoming call from the first phone, the incoming phone number of the first phone to the set of phone numbers in the database to thereby determine if the incoming phone number has been assigned the authorization code; determining whether a designated button of the second phone has been pressed while the second phone is receiving the incoming call from the first phone; displaying the recorded set of text messages on a display screen of the second phone; receiving, from a user of the second phone only when the designated button has been pressed, a manually-selected text message from the displayed set of text messages; receiving, when the designated button has not been pressed and the incoming phone number has been assigned the authorization code, a text message that is automatically selected by the second phone from the displayed set of text messages; and automatically transmitting the selected text message to the first phone in response to the received message selection.