Patent ID: 7764968

Claim:
A method for managing delivery of communications to a user of a mobile communications device, the user being assigned a home communications network, the method comprising: arranging for the user to set a parameter relating to delivery of communications to their mobile communications device, in which said parameter is a parameter relating to temporary suspension of at least one type of communication; regulating changes to said parameter in accordance with temporal criteria so as to control the time during which delivery of communications is temporarily suspended, the regulated changes to said parameter relating to temporary suspension of delivery of communications when the user is using a roaming communications network which is not the user's home communications network; delivering communications to the user in accordance with said regulated changes to the parameter; requiring the user to receive, be available to receive or respond to communications during a predetermined period of time; extending this predetermined period of time by the duration of time for which the user has temporarily suspended delivery of communications; and determining whether a communications network being operatively used by the user is the user's home communications network or a roaming communications network; and preventing delivery of communications to the user when the regulated changes to said parameter suspend delivery of communications when the user is using a roaming communications network and the user is operatively determined to be using a roaming communications network.