Patent ID: 8422646

Claim:
A method of forwarding voicemail in a system comprising a voicemail server and a recipient communication device comprising a proxy device, the method comprising: determining, at the voicemail server, that a voicemail data stored in a memory device has been classified as urgent, said voicemail data for forwarding to said recipient communication device; determining, at the proxy device, availability of the recipient communication device by generating a hypothetical call attempt comprising data associated with the user of the communication device and a context for which availability is being sensed and determining whether the hypothetical call would be presented directly to the user, and generating an availability data; transmitting, from the proxy device, the availability data to the voicemail server; processing, at the voicemail server, the availability data associated with said recipient communication device; and when said availability data is indicative that said recipient communication device is available for receiving calls, said voicemail server providing said voicemail data to said recipient communication device.