Dynamic group labels
AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsMarc E. Davis, Chris W. Higgins, Simon P. King
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AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsMarc E. Davis, Chris W. Higgins, Simon P. King
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Disclosed are methods and apparatus for managing dynamic groups. In one embodiment, a method of creating or modifying a group of users is disclosed. A request is received from a first user to create or modify a current group. One or more rules are also received from the first user for specifying members of the current group based on user information that was or will be collected for a plurality of users. In one embodiment, the collected user information includes at least user presence information or user communication data. A membership policy for the current group is then retained based on the received one or more rules. The membership policy for the current group is accessibly usable so as to dynamically allow a selected set of users, who each have corresponding collected user information which meets the membership policy, to become members of the current group, wherein the selected set of users is changeable over time as different user information is collected over time.
A method of creating or modifying a group of users, comprising:
An apparatus comprising at least a processor and a memory, wherein the processor and/or memory are configured to perform the following operations:
At least one computer readable storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon that are arranged to perform the following operations:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.