Patent ID: 9319371
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: enabling an election of an entity account in a social network by a person account in the social network, wherein the election indicates that the person account follows the entity account to receive electronic messages from the entity account; disabling an election of the person account by the entity account until a detection that the person account has elected to follow the entity account; detecting, by a processing device, the election of the entity account by the person account, wherein the person account is enabled to add the entity account to one or more communication groups managed by the person account after the election, wherein in response to detecting the election of the entity account, the entity account is enabled to follow the person account, and wherein messages from the person account to communication groups including the entity account reach the entity account; detecting a deletion of the entity account from the person account; removing the person account from the entity account in response to detecting the deletion; detecting a new election by the person account of the entity account after the deletion; and adding the person account to communication groups of the entity account as existed before the deletion.