Patent ID: 8635291

Claim:
A method comprising: transmitting a first message from a communication device to a communication network via a communication interface, said first message associated with a filtering override condition stored at a memory, said communication device comprising a processor, said memory, said communication device and an alert device; storing, at said memory, an identifier of said first message in a white list of identifiers of messages for which alerts for responses are to be generated regardless of any message filters that prevent alerts for from being provided for the responses; receiving, at the communication device, a second message from said communication network via said communication interface, said second message meeting a filtering condition stored in said memory such that said alert device is not triggered to provide an alert of second message; determining that said second message is received in response to said first message associated with said filtering override condition; and, in response, triggering said alert device to provide said alert of said second message, said alert of said second message different from alerts associated with said first message.