System and method to silence other devices in response to an incoming audible communication

A device comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium coupled to the at least one processor having computer executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed cause at least one processor to:
• receive an indication of an incoming contact to the device;
• and
• in response to receiving the indication of an incoming contact to the device:
• decide whether to generate an audible notification of the incoming contact to be received at a microphone of another device and cause a current audio level of the other device to decrease, wherein the deciding whether to generate an audible notification of the incoming contact to be received at the microphone of the other device and cause the current audio level of the other device to decrease includes:
• verifying whether a detected characteristic of the audible notification is in a database of stored characteristics for which priority is to be given for a user to hear audible notifications associated with one or more of the stored characteristics:
• and
• based on the verification that the detected characteristic of the audible notification is in the database of stored characteristics, deciding to generate the audible notification of the incoming contact to be received at the microphone of the other device and cause the current audio level of the other device to decrease;
• and
• based on the decision to generate the audible notification of the incoming contact to be received at the microphone of the other device and cause the current audio level of the other device to decrease, and generate the audible notification of the incoming contact.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer executable instructions thereon that, when executed by at least one computer processor, cause at least one computer processor to:

• detect a characteristic of an audible notification of an incoming contact to a device, wherein the audible notification of the incoming contact is received at a microphone of another device;
• and
• decide, based on the detected characteristic of the audible notification, whether to cause a current audio level of the other device to decrease, wherein deciding whether to cause a current audio level of the other device to decrease includes:
• verifying whether a detected characteristic of the audible notification is in a database of stored characteristics for which priority is to be given for a user to hear audible notifications associated with one or more of the stored characteristics;
• and
• based on the verification that the detected characteristic of the audible notification is in the database of stored characteristics, deciding to cause the current audio level of the other device to decrease.