Patent ID: 8756283

Claim:
A method for presenting to a first user information about a second user to enable the first user to select an appropriate communication means for communicating with the second user, the method comprising: associating first and second uniform resource locators (URLs) with establishing communications with the second user, each of the first and second URLs providing access to a different set of one or more communications options for communicating with the second user; receiving, by a service node over a network from a web browser executing at a computing device used by the first user, a request for a web page identified by a given one of the first and second URLs associated with the second user, the web page corresponding to a web portal personally associated with the second user for accessing information related to the second user; collecting, by the service node over the network, information related to a current status of activity of the second user; determining, by the service node, one or more options for establishing communications with the second user depending at least on the given one of the first and second URLs used to identify the web page; and transmitting, by the service node over the network to the first user, the web page having the current activity of the second user and the determined one or more communications options.