System and method for changing presence of a communication device relative to location

• US 20040203888A1
• Filed: 12/06/2002
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Mikan, Jeffrey Clinton
• Application Number:
  US10/313,384
• Publication Number:
  US 20040203888A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

The present invention is a method and system for changing the presence of a user profile logged into a communication device on a telecommunications network relative to the location of the communication device. In a first embodiment, the communication device receives location information of the communication device from the telecommunications network. The communication device then changes the presence of the user profile logged into the communication device to correspond with the presence associated with the location information. In a second embodiment, the communication device receives the location information via a client device, then adjusts the presence of the user profile logged into the communication device to the presence corresponding to location information.

Claims

1. A method of changing the presence of a user profile logged into a communication device on a telecommunications network relative to a change in the location of the communication device, said method comprising:

receiving location information for the communication device;

determining a presence corresponding to the location information; and

communicating the presence corresponding to the location information to the telecommunications network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said receiving location information step comprises receiving x and y coordinates reflecting the location of the communication device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said receiving location information step comprises receiving latitude data and longitude data reflecting the location of the communication device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said receiving location information step comprises receiving location information after requesting location information from the telecommunications network.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining presence corresponding to location information step comprises retrieving the presence corresponding to the location information from a memory.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein retrieving the presence corresponding to the location information from a memory comprises accessing a memory in the communication device.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein retrieving the presence corresponding to the location information from a memory comprises accessing a memory coupled to the telecommunications network.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said communication device comprises a wireless device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said communication device is a cellular telephone.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said cellular telephone is communicatively coupled to a client device.

11. A computer readable medium, said computer readable medium containing instructions to perform the steps of claim 1.

12. A method of changing the presence of a user profile logged into a communication device on a telecommunications network relative to a change in the location of the communication device, said method comprising:

receiving location information of the communication device on the telecommunications network;

communicating the location information to a communication device;

determining a presence corresponding to location information; and

changing the presence of the user profile logged into the communication device to the presence corresponding to the location information.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said receiving location information step comprises receiving x and y coordinates reflecting the location of the communication device.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein said receiving location information step comprises receiving latitude and longitude data reflecting the location of the communication device.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein said receiving location information step comprises receiving location information after requesting location information from the telecommunications network.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein said determining presence corresponding to location information step comprises retrieving the presence corresponding to the location information from a memory.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein retrieving the presence corresponding to the location information from a memory comprises accessing a memory in the communication device.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein retrieving the presence corresponding to the location information from a memory comprises accessing a memory connected to the telecommunications network.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein said communication device comprises a wireless device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said communication device is a cellular telephone.

21. A computer readable medium, said computer readable medium containing instructions to perform the steps of claim 12.

22. A system for changing the presence of a user profile logged into a telecommunications network based at least in part on the location of the communication device, said system comprising:

a processing unit resident in the communication device;

a memory accessible to said processing unit for storing a presence value related to a location value of the communication device, said location value changing upon physical transgression of the communication device and being representative of a location of the communication device; and

a plurality of instructions executable by said processing unit to cause alteration of the presence value of the communication device based at least in part on said location value.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein said system further comprises a network interface communicatively connected to said processing unit for receipt of the location value from the telecommunications network.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein said system further comprises a user interface communicatively connected to said processing unit for receipt of input from a user of the communication device corresponding to a mode of operation desired by the user for a location value.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein said user interface comprises a keypad.

26. The system of claim 24, wherein said user interface comprises a microphone.

27. The system of claim 24, wherein said user interface further comprises a speech recognition unit.

28. The system of claim 24, wherein said user interface comprises a touch screen.

29. The system of claim 22, wherein said plurality of instructions is a first plurality of instructions and said system further comprises a second plurality of instructions executable by said processing unit to cause storage of said data value in response to the receipt of input via said user interface.