Patent ID: 8200504

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a communication service dashboard module operable within a web server of a communication service provider, information defining a caregroup, including a target of a care group, members of the caregroup that are permitted to send digital gifts to the target of the caregroup and one or more administrating caregivers of the caregroup; limiting, by a digital gift editor module operable within a web server of the communication service provider, potential recipients of digital gifts from the members of the caregroup to the target of the caregroup and targets of any other caregroups of which the members are a part; receiving, by the digital gift editor module from a member of the caregroup, an indication of a digital gift desired to be generated and caused to be delivered in hardcopy form to a hardcopy-based email appliance of the target of the caregroup, the hardcopy-based email appliance operable to receive digital gifts from the members of the caregroup and produce hardcopy output of the digital gifts for the target of the caregroup; for each content-containing component of the digital gift, selecting, by the digital gift editor module, default content items based upon one or more of biographical information previously supplied by one or more members of the caregroup, information regarding communications history from the member of the caregroup to the target of the caregroup, ascertained preferences of the target of the caregroup, and a type of the digital gift; allowing, by the digital gift editor module, the member of the caregroup to initiate delivery of the digital gift with the selected default content items or personalize the digital gift prior to delivery by presenting the digital gift within a corresponding digital gift editor; and wherein the communication service dashboard module and the digital gift editor module are implemented in one or more computer processors and one or more computer-readable storage media of the web server, the one or more computer-readable storage media having instructions tangibly embodied therein representing the communication service dashboard module and the digital gift editor module that are executable by the one or more computer processors.