Messaging and information system

摘要

A messaging and information system in which a called party who does not wish to take a call on a user terminal can send a message to a calling party, and set up a reminder in the user terminal to remind him to call the calling party back. The content of the message and the reminder is linked, so that the time delay associated with an alarm on the reminder corresponding to this message can be arranged to be a time mentioned in the message. The telephone number of the calling party is associated with the reminder in the calendar, so that the called party can easily contact the calling party. The message selection may be performed manually by the called party on receipt of an incoming call, where the user is presented with a number of message options, from which a message can be selected by pressing a key. Alternatively the message selection may be performed automatically when the user terminal is in a certain mode. Furthermore, it is possible to send a message automatically to a calling party whose number is stored in a certain group in the memory of the user terminal (or on the network). In this way the message content or style can be tailored to different groups of people. Furthermore, the system can be set up so that no reminder messages are set up for certain types of caller, or so that a counter corresponding to the number of times the caller has tried to contact the user is incremented.