Patent ID: 8825681

Claim:
A method for transmitting an electronic communication from a sender to a plurality of contacts using automatically formed contact groups, comprising: first, identifying using a processor a set of recipients to which the sender will send a current electronic communication; second, using the processor, identifying based on the identified set of recipients, a group of contacts to which the sender has sent communications, the group of contacts including at least one recipient of the identified set of recipients, wherein the group of contacts is automatically formed and updated based on a predefined standard and a history of electronic communications that involve the contacts and the at least one recipient of the current electronic communication, such that the group of contacts is automatically formed if the history of electronic communications meets the predefined standard, wherein the history of electronic communications is stored in a database; selecting the group to add the contacts to the set of recipients of the current electronic communication; and after adding the contacts to the set of recipients, transmitting the current electronic communication to the set of recipients.