Patent ID: 8855679

Claim:
A method for populating data on a portable electronic device connected to a network, the method comprising: receiving a user request to create a new memory record on the portable electronic device, wherein the new memory record represents a personal information management (PIM) item and includes a plurality of reference fields to be populated and stored; identifying a proximate point-of-interest based on a geographic location of the portable electronic device; determining relevant location information of said point-of-interest that corresponds with at least a subset of the plurality of reference fields to be populated; automatically populating and storing, in response to said user request, said reference fields to be populated of the memory record with the corresponding relevant location information; displaying the relevant location information on the portable electronic device; receiving a request from the user to save the memory record and the relevant location information; storing the memory record on the portable electronic device; storing the relevant location information on a database server; monitoring the network for changes to the relevant location information stored in the database server; and updating, automatically, the reference fields of the memory record stored on the portable electronic device to correspond with the updated location information.