Apparatus and method for providing gift recommendations and social engagement reminders, storing personal information, and facilitating gift and social engagement recommendations for calendar-based social engagements through an interconnected social network

Abstract

An automated gift recommendation system of a personal social network may be subscribed to by a user who may invite friends and family to participate. The personal social network comprises a smart device and an administrative panel called Not So Forgetful (NSF). NSF is a gift system that is personal to the user and may run on the smart device for receiving personal user information and a cloud server connected to the smart devices for searching and receiving gift data. The smart device may be a mobile communications device, a smart home, a smart television, a smart watch, smart glasses and the like. Algorithms include a trending algorithm utilizing the NSF social network and externally received data to periodically develop, for example, a top ten most popular gift recommendation list for, for example, a sixteen-year-old female (exemplary demographics data). The automated periodic gift recommendation system may record gift purchases. Gift recommendations may expire with the date of a special event such as a birthday or may be deleted as a user suggested gift is already purchased or is identified by a user as a disliked item or becomes less popular, etc.