Patent ID: 8855722

Claim:
A method of receiving incoming telephone calls in a mobile computing device, comprising: receiving a first incoming call from a first caller; identifying a telephone number associated with the first incoming call; determining whether the telephone number matches an entry of an address book stored on the mobile computing device; displaying, on a display device of the mobile computing device an incoming call alert screen that includes (i) information of the first caller retrieved from the address book in response to determining that the telephone number matches an entry of the address book, the information of the first caller including at least the telephone number associated with the first incoming call and an identity of the first caller, and (ii) a first option to answer the first incoming call and a second option to ignore the first incoming call; in response to receiving a user input selecting the second option of the incoming call alert screen, ignoring the first incoming call by automatically transferring the first incoming call to a voicemail system; and in response to receiving the user input selecting the second option of the incoming call user alert screen to ignore the first incoming call and not receiving a voicemail from the first caller, generating a view on the display device indicating that the user did not receive the first incoming call.