Patent ID: 9614921
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored contents that configure a computing device to perform a method, the method comprising: receiving, by the configured computing device, one or more first instructions from a first user who is a member of a virtual group to establish a uni-directional relationship from the first user to each of one or more other indicated users; initiating, by the configured computing device, establishing of the uni-directional relationship from the first user to each of the one or more other indicated users in response to the one or more first instructions; and in response to one or more second instructions from the first user that identify the one or more other indicated users as intended recipients of one or more communications from the first user, initiating, by the configured computing device, forwarding of the one or more communications to the one or more other indicated users.