Method and device for obtaining data related to the presence and/or availability of a user

• US 20060182242A1
• Filed: 01/13/2006
• Published: 08/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Henry, Katell, Roussel, Olivier
• Application Number:
  US11/331,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20060182242A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/114.10
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A method is provided, which includes a configuration phase that includes a stage for saving the first data multiplets each associated with a user identity, an expression composed of at least one word and at least one presence and/or availability data element. It also includes a usage phase that includes the following stages, when a given user pronounces an expression: obtaining, using voice recognition, the identity of the given user and the expression pronounced by the given user; identifying the data multiplet that includes the identity of the given user and the expression pronounced by the given user; reading said presence and/or availability data element included in the identified first multiplet, in order to obtain at least one current presence and/or availability data element for the given user.

Claims

1. Method for obtaining data related to the presence and/or availability of at least one user, wherein the method includes:

a configuration phase that includes a stage for saving first data multiplets, each of which is associated to a user identity, an expression composed of at least one word, and at least one presence and/or availability data element; and

a usage phase that includes the following stages, when a given user pronounces an expression;

obtaining, using voice recognition, the user identity of the given user and the expression pronounced by the given user;

from among the saved first data multiplets, identifying the first data multiplet that includes the user identity of the given user and the expression pronounced by the given user; and

reading of said presence and/or availability data element included in the identified first data multiplet, in order to obtain at least one current presence and/or availability data element for the given user.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein each multiplet includes a first and at least a second presence and/or availability data element, and wherein:

said first presence and/or availability data element is a general data element related to the presence and/or availability of said user; and

said second presence and/or availability data element is a filter data element that allows limiting the use of the first presence and/or availability data element to at least one group of callers that includes at least one determined caller.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein the method also includes a transmission stage of said at least one current presence and/or availability data element to at least one presence data management device.

4. Method according to claim 3, wherein the method is also implemented in a residential gateway or in a multiservice modem/router and the data management device is placed in said residential gateway or said multiservice modem/router and/or in a server linked to said residential gateway or said multiservice modem/router through a communication network.

5. Method according to claim 1, wherein the stage for obtaining, using voice recognition, the identity of the given user is based on a technique of recognising the voice tone of the given user.

6. Method according to claim 1, wherein the presence and/or availability data elements included in the first data multiplets belong to a group that includes:

“

user present and available”

;

“

user absent”

; and

“

user present but unavailable”

.

7. Method according to claim 1, wherein said configuration phase also includes a stage for saving second data multiplets, each of which associating a user identity, an expression, and at least one action, and wherein said usage phase also includes the following stages, when a given user pronounces an expression:

obtaining, using voice recognition, the identity of the given user and the expression pronounced by the given user;

from among the saved second data multiplets, identifying the multiplet that includes the identity of the given user and the expression pronounced by the given user;

executing said at least one action included in the second identified multiplet.

8. Method according to claim 7, wherein the actions included in the second data multiplets belong to the group that includes:

providing current presence and/or availability data for the given user and/or for at least one other determined user; and

providing a list of expressions that include the expression already saved and/or available expressions for the given user and/or at least one other determined user.

9. Method according to claim 1, wherein each of the first data multiplets includes a distinct expression.

10. A computer program product, which includes program code instructions for running the stages of the method according to claim 1, when the program code is running on a computer.

11. Storage means, which is fully or partially removable and computer readable, and which stores a set of instructions that can be executed by said computer in order to implement the method according to claim 1.

12. Device for obtaining data related to the presence and/or availability of at least one user, wherein the device includes:

means for saving first data multiplets associating each one with a user identity, an expression composed of at least one word and at least one presence and/or availability data element;

means for obtaining, using voice recognition, the identity of a given user that has pronounced an expression and the expression pronounced by said given user;

means for identifying, from among the saved first data multiplets, the multiplet that includes the identity of the given user and the expression pronounced by the given user;

means for reading said at least one presence and/or availability data element included in the identified first data multiplet, in order to obtain for the given user at least one current presence and/or availability data element.

13. Device according to claim 12, wherein the device also includes means for transmitting said at least one presence and/or availability data element to at least one presence data management device.

14. Device according to claim 13, wherein the device is included in a residential gateway or in a multiservice modem/router and the presence data management device is in said residential gateway or said multiservice modem/router and/or in a server linked to said residential gateway or to said multiservice modem/router through a communication network.

15. Device according to claim 12, wherein the device also includes:

means for saving second data multiplets associating each one with a user identity, an expression, and at least one action;

means for identifying, from among the saved second data multiplets, the multiplet that includes the identity of the given user and the expression pronounced by the given user;

means for running said at least one action included in the identified second data multiplet.

16. Communication terminal comprising a device for obtaining data according to claim 12.