Patent ID: 8737590

Claim:
A method for determining which mailbox in a voice messaging platform in which to deposit a message associated with a call received at the voice messaging platform, wherein multiple sequential redirecting numbers are associated with the call, each of the multiple sequential redirecting numbers corresponding to a telephone number to which the call was forwarded prior the call being received at the voice messaging platform, the method comprising: determining whether a last number of the multiple sequential redirecting numbers associated with the call belongs to a closed user group; selecting, from a plurality of mailboxes each associated with a respective one of the multiple sequential redirecting numbers associated with the call, a mailbox associated with the last number of the multiple sequential redirecting numbers associated with the call in response to a determination that the last number of the multiple sequential redirecting numbers does not belong to a closed user group; and depositing a message in the mailbox selected from the plurality of mailboxes.