Perpetual Memoire

Abstract

Among other things, an intelligent automated proxy for an party who wants to communicate a multimedia message about a life event an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog to a second party and provides information from which the life event, the communication, the manner of delivery, the future time, and the recipient can be determined.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method comprising:
 maintaining first information characterizing a person;   receiving second information indicative of contents of a message to be delivered to a recipient on behalf of the person, an identity of the recipient, and a delivery time for delivery of the message; and   delivering the message to the recipient at the delivery time, including conducting a natural language interaction with the recipient on behalf of the person based on the first information characterizing the person.