Patent ID: 8402103

Claim:
An electronic communication system for controlling processing of electronic communications of a call between a specific caller and a recipient among a plurality of caller electronic communication devices, the system comprising: means for generating by the recipient a group of processing criteria; means for selecting by the recipient a first sub-set of processing criteria from the group of processing criteria, wherein the first sub-set of processing criteria is selected based on the specific caller, and wherein the means for selecting the first sub-set of processing criteria is adapted to identify which processing criteria are to be allocated to which one or more specific callers among the plurality of caller electronic communication devices; means for associating contact data with the recipient, the contact data comprising a plurality of contact records, each contact record comprising contact information of one of the specific callers and a list of one or more said processing criteria that are allocated to the one of the specific callers, the means for associating the contact data comprising means at the recipient for storing or accessing the contact data, wherein one contact record of the plurality of contact records corresponds to the specific caller; means for selecting a second sub-set of processing criteria from the first sub-set of processing criteria by the specific caller; and means for processing a voicemail in accordance with the selected second sub-set of processing criteria.