Patent ID: 8831574

Claim:
A method for personalizing a message of unavailability of a called user intended to be delivered to a calling user in a communication network, said called user having at least one address book organised according to at least one group of personal contacts grouping together personal contacts, wherein the method comprises: determining, with a processor, at least one group of personal contacts of said called user comprising a contact corresponding to said calling user; determining availability of the called user with the processor, using an availability information cue of said called user associated with at least one group of determined personal contacts; and in the event of determination of an unavailability of said called user: generating an unavailability message as a voice message on the basis of at least one first information cue associated, in the address book, with said at least one determined group of personal contacts, wherein said unavailability message includes specific naming information of the calling user, supplied, in the address book of said called user, in association with the contact corresponding to said calling user, and wherein generating the unavailability message comprises creating a text message from said at least one first information cue, and voice-synthesizing said text message into said voice message; and making said generated message available to said calling user.