Patent ID: 7996481

Claim:
A method of providing an outbound information notification to a communications system subscriber, comprising: at a first communications network component, converting a list of outbound information notification options from text to speech for playing as an audio message, providing the audio message to provide a subscriber the list of outbound information notification options, said options comprising a list of information types that are available to the subscriber, and receiving a selection of one or more outbound information notification options, receiving a selection of a designated day and time for outbound information notification, and saving the selected one or more outbound information notification options and the designated day and time to a customer profile; at the first communications network component, tracking the subscriber designated day and time; at an occurrence of the subscriber designated day and time, perform the following: determining information to be provided to the subscriber and determining a destination in accordance with a personal calendar and schedule of the subscriber; receiving at the first network component an identification associated with the information that is determined to be provided to the subscriber; at the first network component, retrieving the information associated with the identification that is determined to be provided to the subscriber; and sending only to the subscriber the outbound information notification including the information associated with the identification in a predetermined manner to the determined destination designated by the subscriber at the subscriber designated day and time.