Patent ID: 8775561
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: establishing, through a networking service, a plurality of relationships between a second user and a plurality of users that includes a first user that has not established, through the networking service, a relationship with any of the other users in the plurality of users; determining which users of the plurality of users have an online status and which users of the plurality of users have an offline status; determining that a first subset of users of the plurality of users have an online status and that a second subset of users of the plurality of users have an offline status; in response to determining that the first subset of users have an online status, making each user in the first subset of users of the plurality of users viewable by the first user through the networking service; in response to determining that the second subset of users have an offline status, not allowing the first user to view any user in the second subset of users wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.