Method and apparatus for automatically determining a presence status

• US 20060190117A1
• Filed: 06/24/2004
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Weczorek, Philippe, Kyrfakides, Lionel
• Application Number:
  US10/561,939
• Publication Number:
  US 20060190117A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/103
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• 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: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided apparatus, for use with a computing device, for selecting a presence status from a number of available presence statuses comprising: a data store for storing at least one predeterminable rule; an activity monitor for monitoring an activity through the device; and logic for determining the presence status based in part on the at least one rule and in part on the monitored activity.

Claims

1. Apparatus, for use with a computing device, for selecting a presence status from a number of available presence statuses comprising:

a data store for storing at least one predeterminable rule;

an activity monitor for monitoring an activity through the device; and

logic for determining the presence status based in part on the at least one rule and in part on the monitored activity.

2. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the activity monitored by the activity monitor is defined by the at least one rule.

3. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the activity monitor monitors activity of the device.

4. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the activity monitor monitors activity external to the device.

5. Apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a presence publisher for publishing the determined presence status to a presence server.

6. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the logic is adapted for determining a plurality of presence statuses.

7. Apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the presence publisher is adapted to publish each determined presence status to one of a plurality of presence servers.

8. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the device is any one of a personal computer (PC), personal digital assistant (PDA), or a telephony-based communications device.

9. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determined presence information is published to an instant messaging presence server.

10. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determined presence information is published to a session initiation protocol (SIP) presence server.

11. A method, for use with a computing device, for selecting a presence status, from a number of available presence statuses comprising:

monitoring an activity through the device; and

determining a presence status based in part on the monitored activity and in part on at least one predeterminable rule.

12. A method according to claim 11, wherein the step of monitoring comprises monitoring an activity as defined by the at least one rule.

13. A method according to claim 11, wherein the step of monitoring comprises monitoring an activity on the device.

14. A method according to claim 11, wherein the step of monitoring comprises monitoring an activity external to the device.

15. A method according to claim 11, further comprising publishing the determined presence status to a presence server.

16. A method according to claim 11, wherein the step of determining comprises determining a plurality of presence statuses.

17. A method according to claim 16, wherein the step of publishing further comprises publishing each determined presence status to one of a plurality of presence servers.

18. A method according to claim 11, for use with any one of a personal computer (PC), personal digital assistant (PDA), or a telephony-based communications device.

19. A method according to claim 11, wherein the step of publishing comprises publishing the presence status to an instant messaging presence server.

20. A method according to claim 11, wherein the determined presence information is published to a session initiation protocol (SIP) presence server.

21. A presence broking system for managing presence information received from two or more devices associated with a single user comprising:

a storage device for storing at least one predeterminable rule; and

means for publishing a presence status to a presence server based on the received presence information and the at least one predeterminable rules.