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Abstract

An incoming call destined for a personal voice communication device is responded to by providing a user alert in response to the incoming call and performing a courtesy hold process. In the courtesy hold process, the incoming call is answered, a courtesy hold message is sent as a response to the incoming call and, at the end of the courtesy hold message, the incoming call is put temporarily on hold. The courtesy hold process allows a recipient located in a telephone conversation-inappropriate location to answer the incoming call without needing to speak and then, while the incoming call is on hold, to move to a location where a telephone conversation would be appropriate to take the call. The call responding process may be performed by the recipient's personal voice communication device or by an intermediate communication device with which the recipient's personal voice communication device is in communication.

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