Patent ID: 8528023

Claim:
A method of employing a reminder corresponding to media information to be displayed to a user of an electronic communication network, comprising: (a) generating a reminder request message, wherein the reminder request message includes an identifier of the user and at least one of a media information identifier and an event time; (b) sending the reminder request message to a control server in the communication network; (c) generating a unique identifier of the reminder request message in the control server and sending the unique identifier to a user equipment; (d) storing in association with the user a list of reminders and unique identifiers based on reminder request messages; and (e) sending a reminder message from the control server to at least one user equipment at a time based on the reminder request message; wherein sending a reminder message includes either (1) determining the user's preferred notification channel, sending the reminder message by the preferred notification channel, determining if the user has responded to the reminder message, and if not, sending another reminder message by a different notification channel; or (2) determining whether the user is logged in to an internet protocol multimedia subsystem in the communication network.