Integrated presence management system, presence server and presence information management program

• US 20060167998A1
• Filed: 07/13/2005
• Published: 07/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yoshiuchi, Hideya, Kawachi, Satoshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,005,942 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• 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

Abstract

To group plural applications and integrally manage their presence information. A presence server includes plural clients that receive services from application servers providing plural services, and a presence information that manages presence information of applications and group information. The presence server receives presence information registration from the application clients, updates presence information of all applications having the same group ID as that of an application of presence information registration source in an application type registration table according to the content of registered presence information, and reflects its result in a presence information table.

Claims

1. An integrated presence management system comprising:

a plurality of application servers each including an input-output interface, a CPU, and a memory storing application programs;

a terminal including an input-output interface, a CPU, and a memory storing a plurality of application client programs respectively corresponding to the plurality of application servers; and

a presence server including an input-output interface, a CPU, and a memory storing presence information of the terminal,

wherein, when receiving presence information registration of the terminal on one application of the plurality of applications from the terminal, the presence server synchronizes presence information of the terminal on at least one other application belonging to the same group as that of the one application with the one application.

2. The integrated presence management system according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of applications belonging to the same group are a plurality of applications that cannot be used at the same time.

3. The integrated presence management system according to claim 1,

wherein the memory of the presence server stores:

an application type table that stores application IDs indicating the respective types of the plurality of applications, and a group ID indicating the group of the plurality of applications; and

a presence information table that stores presence information on each application.

4. The integrated presence management system according to claim 1,

when the presence information of the terminal on the one application indicates “

in use”

, updating presence information of the terminal on the other applications belonging to the same group to “

conflicting”

.

5. The integrated presence management system according to claim 1,

when the presence information of the terminal on the one application indicates “

idle”

, updating presence information of the terminal on the other applications belonging to the same group to “

idle”

.

6. The integrated presence management system according to claim 1,

when registering the presence information from the terminal, sending the ID of the one application from the terminal to the presence server.

7. The integrated presence management system according to claim 1,

when sending presence information from the presence server to other terminals or other servers, sending the ID of an application from the presence server to the other terminals or other servers.

8. The integrated presence management system according to claim 1,

wherein, instead of the presence server'"'"'s synchronizing presence information of the terminal, the memory of the terminal has an integrated presence client, and when the presence information on the one application is registered, the integrated presence client synchronously registers presence information on applications belonging to the same group as that of the one application in the presence server.

9. A presence server, connected with a terminal and a plurality of application servers, which comprises an input-output interface, a CPU, and a memory storing presence information of the terminal,

when receiving presence information registration of the terminal on one application of the plurality of applications from the terminal, synchronizing presence information of the terminal on at least one other application belonging to the same group as that of the one application with the one application.

10. The presence server according to claim 9,

wherein a plurality of applications belonging to the same group are a plurality of applications that cannot be used at the same time.

11. The presence server according to claim 9,

wherein the memory stores:

an application type table that stores application IDs indicating the respective types of the plurality of applications, and a group ID indicating the group of the plurality of applications; and

a presence information table that stores presence information on each application.

12. The presence server according to claim 9,

when the presence information of the terminal on the one application indicates “

in use”

, updating presence information of the terminal on the other applications belonging to the same group to “

conflicting”

.

13. The presence server according to claim 9,

when the presence information of the terminal on the one application indicates “

idle”

, updating presence information of the terminal on the other applications belonging to the same group to “

idle”

.

14. The presence server according to claim 9,

when registering the presence information from the terminal, receiving the ID of the one application from the terminal.

15. The presence server according to claim 9,

when sending the presence information to other terminals or other servers, sending the ID of an application to the other terminals or other servers.

16. A presence information management program executable in a presence server which is connected with a terminal and a plurality of application servers and has a memory storing presence information of the terminal, wherein the presence information management program can execute a presence information management method in the presence server, the presence information management method comprising the steps of:

receiving presence information registration of the terminal on one application of the plurality of applications from the terminal; and

synchronizing the presence information of the terminal on at least one other application belonging to the same group as that of the one application with the one application.