Patent ID: 8352561

Claim:
A method of providing a reminder for an electronic communication, the method comprising: receiving electronic communications that are for a user and that are initiated by multiple, different senders; determining one or more types of one or more of the received communications; monitoring responses by the user to the received communications; determining, using at least one processor, response patterns of the user by communication type based on the monitoring; storing, in electronic storage, response pattern data for the user by communication type based on the determined response patterns; after storing, in the electronic storage, the response pattern data for the user by communication type based on the determined response patterns, receiving a particular communication that is for the user and that is initiated by a first sender; determining a type of the particular communication; accessing, from the response pattern data stored in the electronic storage, response pattern data associated with the determined type of the particular communication; and automatically setting, using the at least one processor, a response reminder time for the particular communication based on the accessed response pattern data associated with the determined type of the particular communication.