Patent ID: 8260863

Claim:
A method for client-side interruption management, the method comprising: configuring, via a configuration window, one or more rules associated with a user for a do-not-interrupt mode; initiating the do-not-interrupt mode responsive to the one or more configured rules; launching a desktop sharing application configured, at least in part, to broadcast, via a network, a display screen of a client electronic device associated with the user to a plurality of other display screens of other client electronic devices associated with other users, wherein the one or more configured rules is configured to initiate the do-not-interrupt mode responsive to launching the desktop sharing application; blocking a message directed to the user of the client electronic device responsive to the do-not-interrupt mode; routing, via the client electronic device, the message directed to the user to a client-based storage queue for subsequent delivery; and delivering the message directed to the user from the client-based storage queue responsive to the user of the client electronic device no longer in the do-not-interrupt mode.