Patent ID: 8611875

Claim:
A network component comprising hardware, the network component in communication with a call message system, the network component comprising: a communications portion configured to: detect a call indicative of a call to a mobile device; and a processor portion configured to: determine an originator of the call; determine a genre of the call based at least in part on: the originator of the call; a qualitative characteristic of the originator of the call, the qualitative characteristic comprising at least one of: an environmental rating; or a charitable rating; and a quantitative characteristic of the originator of the call, the quantitative characteristic comprising at least one of: a number of persons registered as members of a political party; an amount of money raised for a charity; or a number of times the originator of the call has called the mobile device; compare the genre of the call to a predetermined genre; and provide the call to the call message system based on the comparison of the genre of the call to the predetermined genre.