Patent ID: 8078204

Claim:
A method for a mobile phone to provide an unsuccessful call alert, comprising: monitoring, by a caller's mobile phone, an outgoing call from a caller having a blocked or unlisted phone number, to a callee to determine if the callee is available; if the callee is not available, then: automatically presenting, by the caller's mobile phone, the caller with choices of (1) sending an SMS message, (2) sending a MMS message, (3) sending an e-mail message, or (4) not sending a message; automatically activating, by the caller's mobile phone, an SMS message editor, an MMS message editor, or an e-mail message editor in response to the respective choice by the caller of (1), (2) or (3); automatically generating, by the activated message editor, an editable pre-defined call alert text message, comprising generating a text identifier of the caller and generating text contact information for the caller, the text contact information comprising the caller's blocked or unlisted phone number; editing, by the activated message editor, the pre-defined call alert text message, thereby replacing the text contact information for the caller with substitute text contact information, so as to avoid disclosing the caller's blocked or unlisted phone number; and sending, by the caller's mobile phone, the call alert text message, as edited, to the callee.