Patent ID: 9462070
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising: enabling a first user to appear to a second user as being generally unavailable, irrespective of actual availability data of the first user, while exposing the actual availability data of the first user to a third user; while said enabling is in effect, allowing the third user to establish a group that includes both the first user and the second user; and automatically and temporarily interrupting said enabling by communicating the actual availability data about the first user to the second user while the first user and the second user are both participating in the group and for a period of time thereafter determined by a delay generation algorithm, and afterwards communicating to the second user that the first user is unavailable.