Patent ID: 8359014

Claim:
A method carried out on a cell phone comprising the steps: A) receiving a text message on a cell phone; B) manually selecting and launching a Short Message Service (hereafter SMS) text message application on said cell phone; C) manually selecting the SMS text message received most recently such that said cell phone displays said most recently received SMS text message; D) manually putting said SMS text message application into reply mode to reply to said text message selected and displayed in step C; E) receiving an auto-reply command from a user of said cell phone which causes said cell phone to execute a macro or program to automatically enter the text of an automated reply text message into a buffer memory that stores the text of a text message to be sent and sends said text message stored in said buffer memory, the content of said buffer memory being displayed in a field on a display of said cell phone, said automatically entered text stored in said buffer memory having words to the effect the user of said cell phone is driving or is busy and cannot or chooses to not respond immediately to said text message selected in step C.