METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PUBLISHING PRESENCE INFORMATION

• US 20080092233A1
• Filed: 11/08/2007
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sun, Qian, Zhao, Yang, TIAN, Linyi
• Granted Patent: US 8,201,241 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/21
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0227 Filtering policies mail message filtering H04L51/212
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity 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

This invention relates to a method for publishing presence information, including: receiving, by a presence server, a message carrying presence information to be published sent from a delegated presentity client or application server; publishing the presence information in the message carrying presence information to be published according to delegation authorization rules upon determining that the presence information is published by delegation; sending the processed presence information to a watcher client. This invention also provides, a presence server and a presence information composing and publishing unit for publishing presence information. The invention makes it more flexible to publish presence information and enhances user'"'"' experience.

Claims

1. A method for publishing presence information, comprising:

receiving, by a presence server, a message carrying presence information sent from a delegated presentity client or an application server;

publishing the presence information according to delegation authorization rules upon determining that the presence information is published by delegation;

sending the processed presence information to a watcher client.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the delegation authorization rules comprise a delegation publication authorization rules, and the presence server judges the way in which the presence information is processed according to the delegation publication authorization rules.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the delegation authorization rules comprise a delegation content authorization rules, and the delegation content authorization rules comprises at least one of a personal delegation authorization rules, a universal delegation authorization rules and a default rules.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the delegation authorization rules comprise a delegation filter rules, and the presence server filters the message carrying presence information to be published according to the delegation filter rules.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining that the presence information is published by delegation comprises:

determining that the presence information is published through delegation when a user ID of publisher is not the same as that of owner of the presence information;

or

determining that the presence information is published through delegation according to a section indicating delegation in the message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the publishing the presence information according to delegation authorization rules comprises:

publishing the presence information upon determining that the presence serve should wait for confirmation of the presence information by the owner of the presence information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the publishing the presence information according to delegation authorization rules comprises:

checking whether to reject the presence information, and rejecting to publish the presence information if yes.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the delegation publication authorization rules further comprises a validity period, a cycle or times of publishing the presence information.

9. A presence server, comprising:

a delegation checking and processing unit, configured to determine that a message carrying presence information is published by delegation, and publish the presence information according to delegation authorization rules;

a presence information composing and publishing unit, configured to send the presence information to a watcher client.

10. The presence server of claim 9, wherein the delegation checking and processing unit is further configured to filter presence information according to a delegation filter rules.

11. The presence server of claim 9, wherein the delegation checking and processing unit is further configured to publish the presence information upon determining that the delegation checking and process unit should wait for confirmation of the presence information by an owner of presence information to be publish.

12. The presence server of claim 9, wherein the delegation checking and processing unit is further configured to reject publishing the presence information.

13. A presence server, comprising:

a delegation publication authorization processing unit, configured to receive a message carrying presence information and send the presence information to a presence information composing and publishing unit if the presence information is published by delegation and permitted to be published, wherein,

the presence information composing and publishing unit is used for sending the presence information to a watcher client.

14. The presence server of claim 13, wherein the delegation publication authorization processing unit is further configured to publish the presence information upon determining that the presence serve should wait for confirmation of the presence information by the owner of the presence information.

15. The presence server of claim 13, wherein the delegation publication authorization processing unit is further configured to check whether to reject the presence information, and reject to publish the presence information if yes.

16. The presence server of claim 13, wherein the presence information composing and publishing unit is further configured to filter the presence information according to a delegation filter rules.