Roaming consistent user representation information across devices and applications
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1. A method of roaming consistent user representation information, the method comprising:
- maintaining real-time user identity information for users of a service that supports a collaborative application;
providing access to the real-time user identity information to a first client device for presentation of the real-time user identity information in the context of the collaborative application; and
providing access to the real-time user identity information to a second client device for presentation of the real-time user identity information in the context of the collaborative application.
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Abstract
The techniques and technologies described herein enable real-time user identity information to be maintained by a network server architecture such that the user identity information can be provided across multiple client devices and/or across multiple collaborative applications supported by the client devices. The client devices and the collaborative applications can be designed to receive and process the network-based user identity information for presentation in a consistent display format regardless of the client device type and in the context of different collaborative applications.
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1. A method of roaming consistent user representation information, the method comprising:
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maintaining real-time user identity information for users of a service that supports a collaborative application; providing access to the real-time user identity information to a first client device for presentation of the real-time user identity information in the context of the collaborative application; and providing access to the real-time user identity information to a second client device for presentation of the real-time user identity information in the context of the collaborative application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of roaming consistent user representation information, the method comprising:
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maintaining real-time user identity information for users of a service that supports at least one collaborative application; providing access to the real-time user identity information to a client device for presentation of a first graphical representation of the real-time user identity information in the context of a first collaborative application supported by the service; and providing access to the real-time user identity information to the client device for presentation of a second graphical representation of the real-time user identity information in the context of a second collaborative application supported by the service. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for roaming consistent user representation information, the system comprising:
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a memory element configured to maintain real-time user identity information for users of a service that supports at least one collaborative application; and an identity information manager coupled to the memory element and configured to provide access to the real-time user identity information to at least one client device for graphical rendering of the real-time user identity information in the context of at least one collaborative application hosted by the at least one client device. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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