Patent ID: 8577341

Claim:
A method of operating of a server configured to deliver a customized outgoing message to a caller calling a wireless device, the method comprising: accessing, at the server, a voicemail account of a user of the wireless device; associating the voicemail account of the user of the wireless device with one or more social network service accounts of the user of the wireless device for one or more social network services; receiving a selection of one or more contacts to receive the customized outgoing message, wherein the one or more contacts are selected by the user of the wireless device from a contacts data store for the user of the wireless device that is configured to access contact information for the one or more social network service accounts of the user of the wireless device; receiving the customized outgoing message; associating the customized outgoing message with the one or more selected contacts; determining that the caller is associated with the customized outgoing message and that the server has access to a first voicemail message that is directed to the caller from the user of the wireless device and to which the caller has not yet listened; adding the first voicemail message to the customized outgoing message in response to the determination; delivering the customized outgoing message with the first voicemail message to the caller; receiving, from the caller in response to the delivering of the customized outgoing message, a second voicemail message that is directed to the wireless device; and sharing the second voicemail message with the one or more social network service accounts of the user of the wireless device, wherein sharing the second voicemail message comprises one of uploading the second voicemail message to the one or more social network service accounts, posting a link to the second voicemail message on the one or more social network service accounts, or presenting the second voicemail message on the one or more social network service accounts.