System and method for message identification and notification

A message identification and notification method comprising:

• detecting an incoming voice message from a first user to a mobile communication device corresponding to a second user;
• detecting at least one of a particular sound and a particular word in the in the incoming voice message;
• providing a notification to the second user using the mobile communication device responsive to detecting the at least one of the particular sound and the particular word in the incoming voice message;
• disabling at least one of an application and a functional component of the mobile communication device responsive to detecting the at least one of the particular sound and the particular word;
• determining that the incoming voice message is heard by the second user;
• and
• enabling the at least one of the application and the functional component of the mobile communication device responsive to determining that the incoming voice message is heard by the second user.

A mobile communication device comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium having encoded thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the mobile communication device to perform a process comprising:

• detecting an incoming message from a first user to a mobile communication device corresponding to a second user;
• detecting a particular indication in the incoming message;
• providing a notification to the second user using the mobile communication device responsive to detecting the particular indication in the incoming message;
• disabling at least one of an application and a functional component of the mobile communication device responsive to detecting the particular indication;
• detecting a communication from the second user to the first user, the communication initiated after the incoming message from the first user;
• and
• enabling the at least one of the application and the functional component of the mobile communication device responsive to detecting the communication from the second user to the first user.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having encoded thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a process including:

• detecting an incoming message from a first user to a mobile communication device corresponding to a second user;
• detecting a particular indication in the incoming message;
• providing a notification to the second user using the mobile communication device responsive to detecting the particular indication in the incoming message;
• disabling at least one of an application and a functional component of the mobile communication device responsive to detecting the particular indication;
• detecting a communication from the second user to the first user, the communication initiated after the incoming message from the first user;
• and
• enabling the at least one of the application and the functional component of the mobile communication device responsive to detecting the communication from the second user to the first user.