Method for Facilitating User of a Communication Device to Control Multiple Concurrent Communication Sessions

A method of operating a communication device to facilitate a user to control multiple concurrent communication sessions, the method comprising:

• receiving a plurality of incoming communications from a plurality of recipients, each recipient corresponding to one of the multiple concurrent communication sessions;
• detecting a user response in response to the received incoming communications of the plurality of recipients;
• determining a first contextual parameter for the detected user response;
• selecting an incoming communication received from one of the plurality of recipients;
• determining a second contextual parameter for the selected incoming communication or previously received communications corresponding to the one of the plurality of recipients;
• determining whether the first contextual parameter corresponds to the second contextual parameter;
• selecting the one of the plurality of recipients in response to determining that the first contextual parameter corresponds to the second contextual parameter;
• and
• sending the user response to the selected one of the recipients.

A communication device for facilitating a user to control multiple concurrent communication sessions, comprising

• a receiver configured to receive a plurality of incoming communications from a plurality of recipients, each recipient corresponding to at least one of the multiple concurrent communication sessions;
• a processor communicatively coupled to the receiver, the processor configured to detect a user response from the user of the communication device in response to the received incoming communication, correlate the user response with at least one of the received incoming communications or previously received communications corresponding to the recipients, and select at least one of the plurality of recipients based on the correlation;
• and
• a transmitter communicatively coupled to the processor, the transmitter configured to send the user response to the selected at least one of the plurality of the recipients.