Call answering system and methods

摘要

A call answering system and methods for use on a mobile network is provided. In an illustrative implementation, a call answering system operable on the mobile network comprises a call answering engine and one or more instruction sets to instruct the call answering engine to process calls on the mobile network according to a selected call paradigm. In an illustrative operation, the call answering engine allows mobile phones to be categorized in an answering group such that if a call is made to one of the mobile phones of the answering group, all of the mobile phones of the answering group are notified and are allowed to answer and/or join the call.