Patent ID: 8655323

Claim:
A voicemail message system for processing voicemail messages sent by mobile communication devices comprising: a network interface configured to receive the messages over a network communication system, each of at least some of the messages including metadata relating to the message containing location information indicative of a location of a mobile communication device at approximately a time the message is sent by the mobile communication device; a voicemail message storage system configured to store the received messages; and a voicemail message processing system configured to cause each message which is received by the network interface to be stored in the message storage system and for each received message, configured to, dependent on whether the received message includes location information: a) send a question in a text format to the mobile communication device over the network communication system when the message received from the mobile communication device includes location information, the question asking whether the location information should be included with the voicemail message, receive a response to the question from the mobile communication device over the network communication system, wherein if the response to the question is in the affirmative, then the location information is stored by the voicemail message storage system, and if the response to the question is in the negative, the location information is not stored by the voicemail message storage system; and b) not send the question to the mobile communication device when the received message does not include the location information.