Patent ID: 7010288

Claim:
A method of providing an automatic response to an incoming telephone call with a wireless telephone device, comprising: receiving an incoming telephone call; receiving a request from a user to automatically respond to the incoming call; connecting the incoming telephone call; transmitting a request to an internal database within the wireless device for additional information; receiving additional information from the internal database; selecting a pre-recorded message to be transmitted based at least partially on the additional information received, wherein the pre-recorded message is selected from a group of pre-recorded messages; transmitting the pre-recorded voice message over a voice path, the voice path being created when the incoming telephone call was connected; disconnecting the incoming telephone call after the pre-recorded voice message has been transmitted without accepting a voice message from a caller; and creating an entry in a log indicating that the incoming telephone call was automatically responded to; wherein the request from the user is either in response to and during an incoming telephone call or is received before the incoming telephone call is received.