Patent ID: 7451184

Claim:
A communication system comprising: a user interface application for an email service, the user interface application residing on a computer; a communication manager configured to: track user activity; and regulate a level of communications that occurs for an active user based upon a designation of the active user as either an adult or a child, the communication manager residing on the computer, wherein: the user interface application provides an identity of the active user to the communication manager such that a user interface is arranged according to settings for the active user such that a user having a child persona designation is restricted from configuring email accounts accessed by the communication manager for the active user having the child persona designation and a subset of operations performed by the communication manager unless authorized by a user having an adult persona designation, wherein the user interface to the email service displays a folder list of message folders for a local message store when the active user has an adult type of persona, the folder list comprising folders holding messages addressed to the active user having the adult type of persona and folders holding messages addressed to non-active user having a child type of persona that is being monitored by the active user.