Patent ID: 8000695

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a first communication device that shares a billing relationship with a second communication device; and an application server configured to receive one or more notifications that comprise one or more of a voice message and an instant message sent from the first communication device and to send the one or more notifications to the second communication device, at least one of the one or more notifications being employed by a user associated with the second communication device to monitor one or more communication sessions of the first communication device upon establishment of the one or more communication sessions; wherein the second communication device comprises a primary communication device, and wherein the user associated with the second communication device comprises a primary user associated with the primary communication device; and wherein the primary user associated with the primary communication device sets one or more restrictions for the first communication device; and wherein the first communication device is configured to employ one or more of the one or more restrictions stored in an internal database of the first communication device to make a determination of allowability of the one or more communication sessions.