Patent ID: 8626127

Claim:
A method for generating dynamic voice response messages in a mobile computing device, the method comprising: responsive to receiving, at the mobile computing device, an incoming phone call from a caller, identifying, at the mobile computing device, a category of callers associated with the caller based on the identity of the caller; selecting, at the mobile computing device, a set of response messages for display from a plurality of response messages based on the identified category of callers, wherein each of the set of response messages is a customized response message created by a user for association with a particular caller and with a content particularized to a particular caller; displaying, at the mobile computing device, the set of response messages; responsive to receiving a selection of a response message from the set of response messages from one of a control button and a touch screen interface of the mobile computing device, sending the selected response message to the caller; responsive to not receiving a selection of a response message from the set of response messages within a specified period of time, sending a default response message; and sending a default response message response to a caller, responsive to failure to determine a category of callers.