Patent ID: 8077837

Claim:
A system for managing context-based voicemail, comprising: at least one context device capable of receiving a subscriber identification from a mobile terminal via a short-range communication medium; a context server in communication with said context device, said context server capable of receiving said subscriber identification from said context device; context information stored in a memory of one of said context device and said context server; and a voicemail system, said voicemail system being in communication with said context server, said voicemail system comprising a plurality of voicemail accounts, at least one of said voicemail accounts comprising a plurality of voicemail greetings corresponding to a plurality of context information types; wherein said voicemail system is configured to: receive said subscriber identification and said context information; determine the context information type of said context information; determine the voicemail greeting corresponding to the determined context information type; and set the determined voicemail greeting to the active voicemail greeting for the voicemail account associated with said subscriber identification.