Patent ID: 9292836
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, via one or more computing devices, an indication that there is an intended recipient of a communication as a sender of the communication enters the intended recipient of the communication; as the sender enters the intended recipient of the communication, in response to receiving the indication that there is the intended recipient of the communication, automatically determining, via the one or more computing devices, if the intended recipient is available enough to receive the communication based upon, at least in part, one or more registries of availability, a communication type associated with the communication, and one or more user-defined parameters for the communication type, the one or more user-defined parameters including a user-defined minimum amount of time acceptable for communications of each of a plurality of communication types to be received by the intended recipient, wherein determining if the intended recipient is available enough to receive the communication by the user-defined minimum amount of time occurs before the communication is sent to the intended recipient of the communication; and in response to determining that the intended recipient is not available enough to receive the communication, suggesting, via one or more computing devices, with a pop-up window, one or more additional recipients to receive the communication.