Adaptation of the presence status of instant messaging

• US 20090293016A1
• Filed: 05/15/2009
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Maillot, Michael, Potevin, Francois
• Application Number:
  US12/453,620
• Publication Number:
  US 20090293016A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• 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: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/06 including a wireless LAN interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A method of adapting an instant messaging status of a user of a terminal, comprising

• receiving a message at the terminal by means of a wireless link,
• determining on the basis of the received message a location cue for the terminal,
• comparing the location cue for the terminal with at least one preregistered location cue, and
• in the event of a positive comparison, the at least one prerecorded location cue being associated in memory with presence data predefined by the user, adapting the status of the user as a function of the presence data associated with the location of the terminal.

Claims

1. A method for adapting a presence status of a user of a terminal, comprising

receiving a message at the terminal by means of a wireless link,

determining, on the basis of the received message, a location cue for the terminal,

comparing the location cue for the terminal with at least one prerecorded location cue and

in the event of a positive comparison, the at least one prerecorded location cue being associated in memory with presence data predefined by the user, adapting the status of the user as a function of the presence data associated with the location of the terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the location cue for the terminal comprises an identifier of a wireless local area network and, during the comparison step, the identifier of the local area network is compared with at least one prerecorded identifier relating to at least one wireless local area network.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein there is provided a configuration step in the course of which

at least one location cue, relating to a given location, is recorded in the terminal,

for the given location, presence data are recorded in such a way as to associate in memory said presence data with the corresponding location cue.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the presence data defined by the user for a given location comprise personal data provided by the user.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the presence data defined by the user for a given location comprise a presence icon, selected by the user from a set of presence icons provided by an instant messaging tool.

6. The method according to claim 1, comprising

receiving at the terminal a plurality of messages originating from a plurality of separate respective devices,

and determining the location cue on the basis of the messages of said plurality of messages.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising

reading the value of a mode variable, said value conditioning the carrying out of the step of adapting the presence status.

9. A computer program comprising instructions for implementing the method according to claim 1, when said instructions are executed by a processor.

8. A terminal device equipped with instant messaging, and comprising

wireless reception means,

first processing means able to determine on the basis of a message received by the wireless reception means a location cue for the terminal and

second processing means able to

compare the location cue for the terminal with at least one prerecorded location cue and

in the event of a positive comparison, the at least one prerecorded location cue being associated in memory with presence data predefined by the user, adapt the status of the user as a function of the presence data associated with the location of the terminal.