| 摘要 |
The present invention provides, for use with a multi-user device, an availability alerting apparatus comprising a device status monitor, a waiting party queue, and a waiting party informant. In a particularly advantageous embodiment, the device status monitor is coupled to the multi-user device and configured to report an inactivity of the multi-user device; the waiting party queue is configured to collect waiting party identifiers; and the waiting party informant is coupled to the device status monitor and the waiting party queue. The waiting party informant is configured to alert a one of the waiting parties when the device status monitor reports the inactivity.
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