Patent ID: 8825013

Claim:
A method for recording a quick note message for a communication device, the method comprising: intercepting, at a system, a call from a calling party to the communication device, wherein the communication device includes one of a telephone device, a cordless telephone device, and a wireless telephone device; issuing, during a ring back period of the call prior to connecting the call, a messaging prompt to a calling party indicating an option to the calling party to record the quick note message; receiving a selection from the calling party to record the quick note message for a user of the communication device during the ring back period; recording the quick note message in response to the calling party selection; monitoring for at least one of a termination of the call by the calling party or a time-out threshold; indicating at the communication device that the quick note message has been received; and in response to not receiving the calling party selection to record the quick note message, ringing the communication device normally and handling call processing normally.