Patent ID: 8837692

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a selection identifying a voice mailbox associated with an endpoint in a call diversion chain comprising a plurality of endpoints in which to store a voice message; and in response to receiving a call at an endpoint in the call diversion chain and the call not being answered, generating a SIP diversion header field in signaling data for the call that identifies whether a voice mailbox associated with the endpoint receiving the call is the selected voice mailbox to store a voice message associated with the call, wherein each of the plurality of endpoints in the call diversion chain indicates in the SIP diversion header field for the signaling data for the call whether each voice mailbox associated with each of the plurality of endpoints in the call diversion chain is the selected voice mailbox and each of the plurality of endpoints in the call diversion chain maintains the SIP diversion header field from previous endpoints in the call diversion chain in the signaling data.