Unsuccessful call alert
View Patent ↗A method for a mobile phone to provide an unsuccessful call alert, including monitoring an outgoing call from a caller to a callee to determine if the callee is available; if the callee is not available, then automatically actuating a message editor, automatically displaying a pre-defined call alert message, including an identifier of the caller and contact information for the caller, enabling the caller to edit the pre-defined call alert message, and sending the call alert message to the callee. A system is also described and claimed.
1. A method for a mobile phone to provide an unsuccessful call alert, comprising:
monitoring, by a caller's mobile phone, an outgoing call from a caller to a callee to determine if the callee is available;
if the callee is not available, then:
automatically presenting, by the caller's mobile phone, the caller with an option of sending an e-mail message to the callee; and
if the caller selects the option, then:
automatically activating, by the caller's mobile phone, an e-mail message editor;
automatically generating, by the activated e-mail message editor, a call alert message; and
sending, by the caller's mobile phone, the call alert message to the callee.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said automatically generating comprises generating a date and time in the call alert message.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising entering, by the activated e-mail message generator, a phone number for returning the call into the call alert message.
4. The method of claim 1 further comprising entering, by the activated e-mail message generator, an e-mail address for the caller.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein said monitoring determines if the callee is available based on duration of the call.
6. A call alert apparatus, comprising:
a modem for enabling a caller to place an outgoing call to a callee, and for sending a call alert message to the callee;
an e-mail message editor, for generating a call alert message;
a call alerter for monitoring the outgoing call from the caller to the callee to determine if the callee is available, and, if the callee is not available, then automatically presenting the caller with an option of sending an e-mail message to the callee, and activating said e-mail message editor in response to the caller selecting the option.
7. The call alert apparatus of claim 6 wherein the call alert message generated by said message editor comprises a date and time.
8. The call alert apparatus of claim 6 wherein said message editor enters a phone number for returning the call in the call alert message.
9. The call alert apparatus of claim 6 wherein said message editor enters an e-mail address for the caller in the call alert message.
10. The call alert apparatus of claim 6 wherein said call alerter determines if the callee is available based on duration of the call.