Patent ID: 7983657

Claim:
A method, comprising: providing presence information to a plurality of users, wherein the presence information includes information regarding the presence of at least one other user in a network, the at least one other user not included among the plurality of users; and providing session handling information to the plurality of users, wherein the session handling information includes information about how a session, which can be initiated to the at least one other user, will be handled, wherein during the presence information providing, the presence information is provided individually to each of the plurality of users, and wherein during the session handling information providing, the session handling information is provided individually to each of the plurality of users so that session handling information for handling a session with the at least one other user is provided differently among the plurality of users, wherein providing the session handling information differently comprises at least one of the plurality of users receiving different session handling information than the session handling information provided to at least one of the other plurality of users.