Patent ID: 7830249

Claim:
A communications system, comprising: a communications scheduler adapted to receive one or more messages from a plurality of message sources, wherein the one or more messages comprise human generated and auto generated messages; a plurality of sensors coupled to the communications scheduler, wherein the plurality of sensors comprise situational, neurophysiological and physiological sensors; and a display unit, having a plurality of display and control devices, coupled to the communications scheduler; wherein the communications scheduler includes: a context manager that receives one or more outputs from the plurality of sensors, monitors a current user's tasks, and retains information about the user's environment; a message characterization unit that characterizes the one or more messages using message attributes, outputs from the plurality of sensors, and the current user's specific baseline profile data; and a presentation unit that receives the characterized messages, queues the characterized messages into a prioritized message list and presents the message list to the user via the display unit.