VISUAL INDICATOR OF NETWORK USER STATUS BASED ON USER INDICATOR

摘要

A system, method, and processor readable medium containing code enable system users to view one or more system user's status (224) and to establish communications with the one or more users (230a-230c) using a user indicator in an electronic document (e.g., electronic mail message (222), hypertext markup language document (210)). The user indicator may be a system user's login identification presented as a hyperlink (218a) to one or more communication options. The system may include an identification module for identifying the one or more system users. The identification module may identify a system user's login idenfication (e.g., the system user's name (218a), employee number) and provide the system user's status using the user indicator. A status module, responsive to the identification module, provides the status of the system users status, for example, color coding, formatting, symbols, etc. A communication module may be used to establish a variety of communications with one or more of the system users.