Telephony method, system and application for barring personal calls outside a local telephony system

摘要

A telephony method and system are provided in a local telephony system for selectively barring calls outside the system for a system user including the steps of/means for: compiling a list of telephone numbers tagged as personal number specific to the user; determining a busy time when there is a level of call activity above an activity threshold; and barring specific user calls corresponding to the personal numbers during the busy time. A soft call-barring application (and database schema) for carrying out the method is also provided.