Patent ID: 8176133

Claim:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions embodied thereon, the instructions operable when executed by a processor to facilitate auto-completion of text in an address field of electronic mail addresses, the instructions comprising: a virtual address book configured to store records for electronic mail addresses, the records comprising a plurality of fields, the plurality of fields including: i) an electronic mail address; ii) a name associated with the electronic mail address; and iii) information regarding prior interaction with the electronic mail address; an address filter module configured to: receive a request from a user, via a user interface, to establish a priority rule for ordering records, wherein establishing the priority rule includes receiving a selection from the user of at least one field corresponding to the information regarding prior interaction with the electronic mail address for which a higher priority is assigned to for ordering records; and an auto-completion module configured to: in response to the user starting to input text to populate an address field of a new electronic mail message, identify records in the virtual address book matching the user's partially inputted text; order the identified records based on the user established priority rule and the information regarding prior interaction with the electronic mail addresses; display an ordered list of names corresponding to said ordering of the identified records; and in response to user selection of a name from the ordered list, auto-complete the text being inputted by the user using data from the record associated with the selected name.