Method and apparatus for sender controllable modalities

摘要

A method and apparatus ( 110 ) for sender controllable modalities includes the step of generating a communication command ( 108 ). The method and apparatus further includes generating a priority command ( 110 ) wherein the priority command includes a modality alert command. The priority command ( 108 ) may be any suitable command indicating a level of priority as it relates to the communication command ( 110 ). The method and apparatus further includes thereupon transmitting the communication command and the priority command ( 112 ) to the recipient device ( 120 ). The method and apparatus further includes the recipient device ( 120 ) verifying the sender device ( 100 ) and performing an internal verification ( 124 ) of whether the sender device ( 100 ) has the ability to override the internal modality setting and to verify if the priority level requests overriding the internal modality setting.