Patent ID: 8351903

Claim:
A method comprising: powering on a device, wherein: the device is configured to update, in response to the device being powered on, voicemail data, received using a packet data protocol, that is at least partially stored at the device; receiving, at the device, a notification that new voicemail data has been deposited at a voicemail system associated with the device; determining whether the device should update the voicemail data with the new voicemail data; overriding, in response to determining that device should update the voicemail data with the new voicemail data, and without user input, a setting that disallows data communications; activating, in response to determining that the device is configured to automatically download the new voicemail data, a packet data protocol context to establish a data session for transferring the new voicemail data without an action from a user; downloading, automatically from the voicemail system and in response to overriding the setting that disallows data communications, the new voicemail data using the packet data protocol; and updating, in response to downloading the new voicemail data the voicemail data with the new voicemail data received using the packet data protocol.