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Presence-enabled mobile access

  • US 20060234735A1
  • Filed: 04/18/2006
  • Published: 10/19/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of performing real-time communications between a plurality of clients, each client being communicably coupled to at least one communications network, at least one of said plurality of clients being a mobile device, said method comprising the steps of:

  • receiving a request for a real-time group action involving said plurality of clients, wherein each of said plurality of clients has at least one condition associated therewith, a status of the condition associated with each client being indicative of an on-line presence of the respective client;

    in a first determining step, in response to said request for said real-time group action, determining the on-line presence of each of said plurality of clients;

    in a second determining step, in the event the on-line presence of said mobile device is indeterminate, determining whether said mobile device is configured to receive at least one message over said at least one communications network;

    in the event said mobile device is configured to receive said at least one message over said at least one communications network, assuming that said mobile device is present and on-line;

    in a third determining step, determining whether said real-time group action can be performed based at least in part on the on-line presence of each of said plurality of clients; and

    in the event said real-time group action can be performed based at least in part on the on-line presence of the respective clients, performing said real-time group action.

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