Patent ID: 8527263

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of automatically generating an electronic reminder, the method comprising: searching an electronic communications received with an electronic communications device, using term-recognition circuitry, to identify a plurality of key terms within a conversation conveyed in the electronic communications; recognizing a behavioral pattern associated with the electronic communications using pattern-recognition circuitry based on an arrangement of the plurality of key terms in the electronic communications; and generating, without user intervention, at least one reminder for a user associated with the electronic communication based upon the plurality of key terms and one or more other terms in the electronic communications associated with the plurality of key terms, the generating of the at least one reminder comprising: identifying a plurality of different pre-defined reminder templates corresponding to the plurality of key terms, selecting from the plurality of different pre-defined reminder templates at least one reminder template corresponding to one or more previous reminders for the user associated with the recognized behavioral pattern in at least one other electronic communications, and inserting the other terms into the at least one pre-defined reminder template to yield the at least one reminder for the user, the at least one reminder being electronically conveyed to the user at a time later than when the message was received.