Systems and methods for remote communication with a legal professional is provided. The method includes sending, using a graphical user interface coupled to an electronic device of a user, a request for communication with the legal professional, wherein the request includes identifiable information about a user, and wherein the electronic device of the user includes a processor and a memory. The method further includes notifying the legal professional of the request and accepting the request, using a graphical user interface coupled to an electronic device of the legal professional, wherein the electronic device of the legal professional includes a processor and a memory. The method additionally includes sending identifiable information about the legal professional to the user and enabling communication between the user and the legal professional using sensors coupled to the electronic device of the user and sensors coupled to the electronic device of the legal professional.

Systems and methods for remote communication with a legal professional is provided. The method includes sending, using a graphical user interface coupled to an electronic device of a user, a request for communication with the legal professional, wherein the request includes identifiable information about a user, and wherein the electronic device of the user includes a processor and a memory. The method further includes notifying the legal professional of the request and accepting the request, using a graphical user interface coupled to an electronic device of the legal professional, wherein the electronic device of the legal professional includes a processor and a memory. The method additionally includes sending identifiable information about the legal professional to the user and enabling communication between the user and the legal professional using sensors coupled to the electronic device of the user and sensors coupled to the electronic device of the legal professional.

Automatically retrieving messages by a wireless telephone based on user preferences. A method of the invention receives a notification, on a wireless device, indicating that a computing device has a message for a user. One or more rules associated with the user are evaluated based on the received notification. The method also automatically requests the message from the computing device as a function of the evaluated rules and received from the computing device. The method further stores the received message in a memory area of the wireless telephone for rendering to the user. Alternatively, one or more rules associated with the user are dynamically generated by monitoring the user interaction with the wireless telephone.

Automatically retrieving messages by a wireless telephone based on user preferences. A method of the invention receives a notification, on a wireless device, indicating that a computing device has a message for a user. One or more rules associated with the user are evaluated based on the received notification. The method also automatically requests the message from the computing device as a function of the evaluated rules and received from the computing device. The method further stores the received message in a memory area of the wireless telephone for rendering to the user. Alternatively, one or more rules associated with the user are dynamically generated by monitoring the user interaction with the wireless telephone.

Briefly, a variety of embodiments, including the following, are described: a system embodiment and methods that allow random access to voice messages, in contrast to sequential access in existing system embodiments; a system embodiment and methods that allow for the optional use of voice recognition to enhance usability; and a system embodiment and methods that apply to the area of voicemail.

Briefly, a variety of embodiments, including the following, are described: a system embodiment and methods that allow random access to voice messages, in contrast to sequential access in existing system embodiments; a system embodiment and methods that allow for the optional use of voice recognition to enhance usability; and a system embodiment and methods that apply to the area of voicemail.

A mobile device having phoning capabilities also include capabilities to optionally reduce an operating load on a centralized mobile carrier voicemail system. The user of the mobile device is presented with a notification of an incoming call and is provided with an opportunity to answer the call in a traditional fashion, to optionally engage the centralized mobile carrier voicemail system, or to instead have the mobile device manage options relating to locally obtaining a voicemail from a maker of the incoming call. When the mobile device manages obtaining a voicemail from the maker of the incoming call, the voicemail is originally obtained and is stored locally, without use of centralized carrier resources at the time of recording the voicemail, and the mobile device can also play the recorded voicemail at any time without use of the centralized carrier resources.

A mobile device having phoning capabilities also include capabilities to optionally reduce an operating load on a centralized mobile carrier voicemail system. The user of the mobile device is presented with a notification of an incoming call and is provided with an opportunity to answer the call in a traditional fashion, to optionally engage the centralized mobile carrier voicemail system, or to instead have the mobile device manage options relating to locally obtaining a voicemail from a maker of the incoming call. When the mobile device manages obtaining a voicemail from the maker of the incoming call, the voicemail is originally obtained and is stored locally, without use of centralized carrier resources at the time of recording the voicemail, and the mobile device can also play the recorded voicemail at any time without use of the centralized carrier resources.

A method for processing a prompt for an unread message of a mobile terminal using an intelligent wearable device may include: connecting the intelligent wearable device with the mobile terminal; setting a specified operation action on the intelligent wearable device to read the unread message of the mobile terminal; and controlling the mobile terminal to transmit the unread message to the intelligent wearable device for display when the intelligent wearable device receives the specified operation action as an input from a user.

A method for accessing offline voicemail messages within a mobile messaging application may be provided. First, a voice mail message may be received and the voicemail message may be transcribed to text. Next, the voicemail message and the text transcription may be stored. The recipient may then be presented with a list of voicemail messages and the voicemail message may be retrieved in response to the recipient. The recipient may read or listen to the voicemail message or both. The recipient may also annotate the voicemail message.