Patent ID: 8417719

Claim:
A system for deriving salutations comprising: a processor operable to execute instructions; a memory holding data including user data for a plurality of users, military data, and association data; a salutation application, executed on the processor, to: determine whether an association is identified between at least two users of the plurality of users based on the association data; when the association has been identified, determine whether the at least two users are a member of a same family based on the user data; determine a military activity status of at least one user of the at least two users of the plurality of users based on the military data; determine if the user data is an acceptable format, wherein the acceptable format comprises the user data including at least a last name of the at least two users; derive a family salutation to a family of the at least two users responsive to a determination of the user data being in the acceptable format; derive a default salutation to at least one user of the at least two users responsive to a determination of the user data not being in the acceptable format; transmit one of the derived family salutation and the derived default salutation in response to a salutation request for the at least two users; and a use application, distinct from the salutation application, to: transmit the salutation request to the salutation application; receive one of the derived family salutation and the derived default salutation.