Patent ID: 8473549

Claim:
A method for identifying and conveying a role of a first user relative to a second user in a communication, the method comprising at a communication server: receiving an indication at a server that a communications has been originated from the first user to the second user through a communication system; determining by the server, an identity of the first user that is originating the communication to the second user through the communication system; determining an identity of the second user that is receiving the communications from the first user; determining, by the server, a relationship created between the first user and the second user; determining, by the server an associated role of the first user relative to the relationship between the first user and the second user; and conveying the associated role to the second user through the communication system as part of the communications from the first user to the second user, wherein conveying the associated role to the second user comprises conveying the associated role by one or more of replacing an identifier of the first user in a messaging between the first user and the second user, adding additional headers to a messaging between the first user and the second user, conveying the associated role in a floor control signaling embedding information regarding the associated role in a media or communication signal exchanged between the first user and the second user, and including the associated role in a payload of a packet sent to the second user.