Patent ID: 8037143

Claim:
A messaging method, comprising: (a) monitoring, in at least one of incoming messages to a user and outgoing messages from the user, at least one of a frequency and recency of use, in individual messages, of a multi-member set of recipient identifiers; and (b) when, during completion of an outgoing message, the user inputs at least part of an identifier in a monitored multi-member set of recipient identifiers, providing the user with the monitored multi-member set of recipient identifiers as an option, which option, if selected by the user, would populate automatically a recipient field of the outgoing message with members of the multi-member set, wherein the provided multi-member set of recipient identifiers are provided based on a semantic analysis such that all individual members of the multi-member set are listed when a first member of the multi-member set matches and also when the first member is not a match, but a later member is, wherein the user is always provided a selectable option for creating a frequently used multi-member set.