Systems and methods are described that enable an incoming communication requesting a real-time (e.g., voice, voice-video, etc.) communication and selectively allowing the called communication device to auto-answer the communication. The selective answering may be rule and/or attribute based and depend, entirely or in part, on presence data of a user associated with the called communication device. Auto-answering may be further configured to auto-answer all or less than all of the communication media types (e.g., only auto-answer an audio-video call with audio). Additionally, or alternatively, rules may be combined, overridden, conditionally implemented, or otherwise combined or structured relative to other rules for auto-answering an incoming communication.

A method for redirecting a communication request sent by a caller terminal to a called terminal, an identifier of the caller terminal being absent from a list of identifiers of caller terminals for which the establishment of a communication with the called terminal is authorized or blocked, referred to as a white list or black list, respectively. The method includes: redirecting the communication request to a redirection terminal associated with the called terminal, distinct from the called terminal; receiving an instruction message, including the identifier of the caller terminal and an instruction relating to the white list or to the black list, depending on the instruction received, adding the identifier of the caller terminal to the white list or to the black list.

A contact information system provides an independent network authority for providing contact information in connection with incoming calls or messages. The contact information system utilizes a database of communication identifiers to provide contact information for end user devices that receive incoming communications which specify communication identifiers that are stored in the database.

A contact information system provides an independent network authority for providing contact information in connection with incoming calls or messages. The contact information system utilizes a database of communication identifiers to provide contact information for end user devices that receive incoming communications which specify communication identifiers that are stored in the database.

A computer-implemented method includes identifying a mobile phone. The method includes identifying one or more input devices. The one or more input devices are associated with the mobile phone. The method includes collecting behavior information from the input devices. The method includes applying machine learning to the behavior information to yield a schedule.

A communication device includes a display screen upon which information is displayed. A microprocessor configured to execute at least one notification program is provided that displays a notification descriptive of an access control request on the display screen. The at least one notification program is programmed to receive data indicative of an access control request and to receive data descriptive of the access control request. Additionally, the at least one notification program is further programmed to display a notification indicative of the access control request and comprising an explanation of the access control request based on the received descriptive data.

The present disclosure generally relates to managing phone calls. In some embodiments, an electronic device with a touch screen displays a phone call user interface which includes informational items associated with phone calls, such as an add call affordance. In some embodiments, when the electronic device receives a request to initiate another phone and displays an additional user interface that includes a merge call affordance that replaces display of the add call affordance.

A user equipment, network control node, method performed at a network control node and a method performed at a user equipment within a telecommunication network are disclosed. The method performed at the user equipment comprises: receiving an incoming call signal, the incoming call signal comprising a combined automatic answer and loudspeaker activation indication; in response to the incoming call signal, automatically answering the incoming call and activating a loudspeaker on the user equipment.

A communication event processing method performed at a computer server includes: obtaining identification information and call description information from multiple different terminals about a phone number; determining whether the phone number is a nuisance phone number according to the call description information and a quantity of the terminals identifying the phone number; and sending, after receiving a query request for the phone number, a blocking instruction to a terminal initiating the query when it is determined that the phone number is a nuisance phone number, so that the terminal initiating the query blocks a communication event of the phone number. According to the present disclosure, the server can determine which phone numbers are nuisance phone numbers according to specific identification cases and the call description information, and therefore provide highly accurate processing in response to a query request of a terminal, thereby greatly improving efficiency of communication event processing.

A communication event processing method performed at a computer server includes: obtaining identification information and call description information from multiple different terminals about a phone number; determining whether the phone number is a nuisance phone number according to the call description information and a quantity of the terminals identifying the phone number; and sending, after receiving a query request for the phone number, a blocking instruction to a terminal initiating the query when it is determined that the phone number is a nuisance phone number, so that the terminal initiating the query blocks a communication event of the phone number. According to the present disclosure, the server can determine which phone numbers are nuisance phone numbers according to specific identification cases and the call description information, and therefore provide highly accurate processing in response to a query request of a terminal, thereby greatly improving efficiency of communication event processing.