Patent ID: 8224817

Claim:
At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the at least one computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for execution by a processor, the instructions comprising: a tailored intergenerational historic snapshot message template data structure stored in the at least one storage medium, and also configured with tailored intergenerational historic snapshot message generator processor instructions stored in the at least one storage medium, the template data structure having predefined text and parameters, the text being interleaved with the parameters to form sentences, the predefined text and parameters of the template data structure including at least one of the following pairs within a sentence: “from where you are” and a distance parameter, “was your age” and a familial relationship parameter, “when she/he turned” and a younger person's age parameter, “like to know” and a younger person's name parameter, “in the year” and a date parameter based on an elder person's birthdate and a younger person's age, the message generator processor instructions, upon execution by at least one processor, functioning to do the following: obtain values for at least some of the parameters; fill in the template parameters with the values; obtain an indication of a first person's age, the first person also referred to herein as the older person; receive an indication of a second person's age, the second person being a younger person than the older person; identify a historic time period in which the older person was the same age as the younger person's received age; select at least one circumstance having an occurrence date in the historic time period; fill in a template parameter with a description of the selected circumstance, wherein the snapshot message in the at least one storage medium has parameters filled in, and the snap shot message discloses that a particular circumstance occurred when the older person was within three years of the younger person's current age; and electronically transmit the resulting tailored intergenerational historic snapshot message to at least the younger person.