Patent ID: 7996338
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system implemented on a machine that develops or utilizes predictive models of human memory to effectuate or facilitate automated reminding, comprising: a component that acquires an event or other item via an interface, the component evaluates the event or other item for relevance based at least in part on a predictive model for the relevance of the event or other item based on contextual information or attributes associated with the event or other item, the component also infers a probability of the user forgetting about the event or other item, combines the probability of the user forgetting about the event or other item with a user specific cost of forgetting to ascertain an expected cost for not being reminded, the component compares the expected cost for not being reminded with an expected cost for interrupting the user, based at least in part on the comparison between the expected cost for being reminded and the expected cost for interrupting the user the component generates and delivers a reminder notification to the user.