Patent ID: 8412162

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting that a first subscriber identity module is connected to a interface of a mobile communication device; establishing, by the mobile communication device, a data session with a visual voicemail system to request creation of a visual voicemail account associated with a subscriber identified by the first subscriber identity module; receiving, at the mobile communication device, a voicemail message associated with the visual voicemail account from the visual voicemail system; storing, by the mobile communication device, the voicemail message in a memory; detecting that the first subscriber identity module has been disconnected from the interface and that a second subscriber identity module has been connected to the interface; preventing, in response to detecting that the second subscriber identity module has been connected to the interface, access to the voicemail message; and preventing, in response to detecting that the second subscriber identity module has been connected to the interface, access to the visual voicemail account.