Patent ID: 8621090

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, from a first endpoint in a communications network, a request for a communication session involving a second endpoint, wherein the communication session is a session initiation protocol (SIP) session, wherein a first user associated with the first endpoint and a second user associated with the second endpoint are members of a social networking platform that involves a paid membership, and wherein the first user is designated with a first profile address associated with the social networking platform, and the second user is designated with a second profile address associated with the social networking platform; accessing, by a communications broker in the communications network, a database to retrieve communication sequencing information for the first user and the second user, wherein the SIP communication session is sequenced between the first user and the second user based upon the paid memberships, and wherein the communication sequencing information comprises: a first communication session schedule for the first user and a second communication session schedule for the second user, and a first set of types of communication sessions for communication with the first user, and a second set of types of communication sessions for communication with the second user, wherein each of the sets is selected from text messaging sessions, multimedia sessions, videoconference sessions, and voice call sessions; reconciling, by the component, the communication sequencing information to determine a common communication session availability that is indicated in both the first and second communication session schedules, wherein the reconciling comprises evaluating a group comprising date, time, duration of the communications session, call back preferences, ring back preferences, type of communication session, membership privileges and access privileges, wherein the membership privileges include sequencing limitations formulated to take advantage of network bandwidth availability at various times of day or night; and translating source and recipient addresses of the first and second users to the first and second profile addresses during the communication session such that the source and recipient addresses are withheld from being viewed by the first and second users.