I just got an email message, sent to me with an "urgent" status. Well, even though I found no reason to believe the self proclaimed importance of that pesky e-mail, it got me thinking in another direction. Why can we not have the same system on one of our living-links-to-the-rest-of-the-world, our cell-phones.

Imagine a situation say, when you are thinking of calling someone up to discuss some trivialities, just for the heck of it. And then to your amazement, you are reprimanded by that person, because you called him - just as he was about to find out, if aamir khan would be able knock the last ball out of the ground in the movie lagaan .

And yes, it works the other way round too. Haven't you ever received a call while you are busy doing something important or critical, say you are deep in thought debugging a 10000 line code with 1000 nested 'if' loops and then some one calls you. You think to yourself, "Hmm ... could this be an important call, or is this just someone calling me to discuss his views on the general state of the universe at that point of time ? "

Wouldn't it be cool if you could just send a "urgent talk"/"casual talk" flag along with your call while calling someone. Just to make life a little more convenient both for the caller and the callee.

So, where is my patent ?
SurAj