Patent ID: 11949636
Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein narrowcasting the call-availability status, while broadcasting the generic availability status, comprises:
instructing a device of the user to display (1) a choice group selection interface, which enables the user to select users to be included within the choice group of contacts and (2) a narrowcasting status interface, in which the user may select from a plurality of call-availability statuses;
detecting (1) a selection of users, to be included within the choice group of contacts, via the choice group selection interface and (2) a selection of the call-availability status via the narrowcasting status interface; and
signaling (1) the selected call-availability status to the users selected to be included within the choice group of contacts, but (2) a generic availability status to contacts of the user that were not selected to be included within the choice group of contacts.