Patent ID: 7054621

Claim:
A method for establishing communications with multiple communication devices, comprising: selecting a multiparty call group from a storage device or forming a multiparty call group, wherein the multiparty call group includes contact information for each communication device in the multiparty call group; asking a user if a voice call is to be established; establishing the voice call with each communication device of the multiparty call group in response to the user indicating that the voice call is to be established; asking the user if a voice mail message is to be sent in response to the user indicating that the voice call is not to be established; prompting the user to record the voice mail message in response to the user indicating that the voice mail message is to be sent to each communication device of the multiparty call group; and prompting the user to enter a text message in response to the user indicating that the voice mail message is not to be sent.