System and method for intelligent call identification on a mobile communication device

1. A mobile device adapted for communication with an enterprise telecommunications network, the mobile device comprising:

a processor for controlling operations of the mobile device and communications between the mobile device and other devices;

a memory coupled to the processor;

a communication subsystem adapted for receiving communications and associated information from the enterprise telecommunications network;

at least one display for displaying information on the mobile device;

a communication identifying module resident in the memory for execution by the processor, the communication identifying module being configured to cause the processor to determine a communication type for an incoming communication received by the communication subsystem, based on the associated information, the communication type being determined based on whether the incoming communication is:

a feature-based communication corresponding to a feature-based communication type, a priority-based communication corresponding to a priority-based communication type, or a feature-and-priority-based communication corresponding to a feature-and-priority-based communication type;

a display module for displaying information relating to the communication type on the at least one display; and

an action module for performing at least one communication-related action related to the communication type;

wherein the at least one communication-related action includes interrupting an active communication with notification or acceptance of a new incoming priority-based communication even when the new incoming communication does not have a higher priority than the active communication.

2. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the communication type is determined by the enterprise telecommunications network and the associated information comprises the communication type.

3. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the associated information comprises information regarding the source of the incoming communication.

4. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the feature-based communication type comprises: a conference call and a voice notification.

5. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the priority-based communication type comprises: an emergency communication, a high priority communication, a regular priority communication and a low priority communication.

6. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the mobile device further comprises one or more input devices for receiving input from a user of the mobile device, the display module is further configured to display one or more options for performing one of the at least one communication-related action on the at least one display and the action module performs one of the at least one communication-related action based on an option selected by the user from the one or more options using the one or more input devices.

7. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one communication-related action comprises emitting a notification based on the communication type to alert a user to the incoming communication.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein a priority of a priority-based communication is determined by the mobile device or the enterprise telecommunications network according to at least one predetermined rule.

9. The device of claim 8 , wherein the at least one predetermined rule defines the priority of the priority-based communication according to at least one of: an origin of the communication, a time of day, and a current location of the mobile device.

10. The device of claim 1 , wherein the incoming communication is both a feature-based communication and a priority-based communication, wherein the incoming communication is the feature-and-priority-based communication and determining the communication type comprises determining the feature-and-priority-based communication type.

11. A method of displaying information regarding an incoming communication on a mobile communications device, the method executed by at least one processor on the mobile communications device, the mobile communications device comprising a communication subsystem and at least one display, the method comprising:

receiving, from the communication subsystem, data representing signals representing information about an incoming communication;

causing execution of a communication identifying module resident in a memory associated with the processor to determine a communication type for the incoming communication, the communication type being determined based on whether the incoming communication is a feature-based communication corresponding to a feature-based communication type, a priority-based communication corresponding to a priority-based communication type, or a feature-and-priority-based communication corresponding to a feature-and-priority-based communication type;

causing the at least one display to display information relating to the communication type; and

performing at least one communication-related action related to the communication type;

wherein the at least one communication-related action includes interrupting an active communication with notification or acceptance of a new incoming priority-based communication even when the new incoming communication does not have a higher priority than the active communication.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the information about the incoming communication comprises the communication type.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the information about the incoming communication comprises information regarding the source of the incoming communication.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the feature-based communication type comprises: a conference call and a voice notification.

15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the priority-based communication type comprises: an emergency communication, a high priority communication and a low priority communication.

16. The method of claim 11 , wherein displaying information relating to the communication type comprises providing one or more options for performing one of the at least one communication-related action to the user and one of the communication-related action is performed based on an option selected by the user from the one or more options.

17. The method of claim 11 , the method further comprising emitting a notification wherein the type of notification is based on the communication type.

18. The method of claim 11 , wherein the communication type is determined based on associated information provided by an enterprise telecommunications network.

19. The method of claim 11 , wherein a priority of the new incoming priority-based communication is determined according to at least one predetermined rule.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the at least one predetermined rule defines the priority of the priority-based communication according to at least one of: an origin of the communication, a time of day, and a current location of the mobile communications device.

21. The method of claim 11 , wherein the incoming communication is both a feature-based communication and a priority-based communication, wherein the incoming communication is the feature-and-priority-based communication and determining the communication type comprises determining the feature-and-priority-based communication type.