Patent ID: 8799925

Claim:
An awareness notification management system comprising: a processor and a memory operatively coupled to the processor; a contact list manager configured to manage a contact list for each of a plurality of awareness service subscribers, said contact list including an active sublist having a plurality of active contacts and an archive sublist having a plurality of disabled contacts; and an awareness manager configured to monitor a status of any member of said contact list; wherein said awareness manager is configured to access a history including at least one timestamp of a last communication exchange between said awareness service subscriber and any of said members of said contact list, and query said history for any of said timestamps and classify any of said contacts as a disabled contact on said archive sublist if said timestamp for said contact is older than a predefined age, and wherein said awareness manager is configured to forward to said awareness service subscriber awareness notifications regarding the status of said active contacts, and wherein said awareness manager is configured to withhold from said awareness service subscriber awareness notifications regarding the status of said disabled contacts in response to said awareness manager classifying said contacts as said disabled contacts.