Patent attributes
A system and method for transmitting customized auto-replies to incoming communications received from designated groups when an individual receiving an incoming communication is otherwise unavailable. More particularly, the individual is provided freedom from having to respond to incoming communications received on their mobile device, for example, when they are in a setting or circumstance in which having to respond to such received messages is impossible and/or inconvenient. In this way, receiving, by a mobile device, an incoming communication from a sending party to a receiving party associated with the mobile device, wherein the mobile device is currently in an auto-reply mode and identifying, by the mobile device, at least one designated contact group that the sending party is a member, the at least one designated contact group having been previously created by the receiving party associated with the mobile device.
