Patent ID: 7912910

Claim:
A system for triggering a communication system to automatically reply to email communications received for a user account facilitated by the email server communication system, comprising: an emergency auto-reply agent of the email server for scanning each received email communication of a plurality of received email communications addressed to a user account at the email server communication system for a particular email communication addressed from at least one emergency address specified in association with the user account separate from the address of the user account; the emergency auto-reply agent, responsive to detecting the particular email communication addressed from the at least one emergency address, for parsing the content of the particular email communication content to detect whether the particular email communication comprises a required password by parsing a subject line within the content of the email particular communication to identify a first string specifying a password followed by a comma and followed by a second string comprising a date; and the emergency auto-reply agent, responsive to detecting the required password within the content of the particular email communication by detecting the password within the subject line matches the required password, for automatically composing a reply email communication addressed from the user account and triggering the email server communication system to automatically send the composed reply communication in reply to a selection of received email communications received after the date from among the plurality of received email communications addressed to the user account.