Presence Service Provision System and Server Unit Thereof

• US 20090300107A1
• Filed: 05/20/2009
• Published: 12/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Araki, Ryo
• Application Number:
  US12/469,579
• Publication Number:
  US 20090300107A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/148 Migration or transfer of sessions
• 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

According to one embodiment, a presence service provision system comprises terminal devices configured to be any of a discloser and a requester of presence information and a server for distributing to the requester distribution information including the presence information to be individually notified from the discloser upon occurrence of an event. The terminal devices include a notification module notifies operation information showing a user'"'"'s operation posed the event to the server upon notifying the presence information. The server includes an extended information database, a generation module and a distribution module. The extended information database stores extended presence information in which the notified presence information is associated with the operation information. The generation module generates extended distribution information in which the distribution information is associated with the operation information acquired from the extended information database. The distribution module distributes the extended distribution information to the requester.

Claims

1. A presence service provision system comprising:

terminal devices configured to be any of a discloser and a requester of presence information; and

a server unit for distributing to the requester distribution information including the presence information to be individually notified from the discloser upon occurrence of an event, wherein

each of the terminal devices includes;

a notification module which notifies operation information showing a user'"'"'s operation posed the event to the server unit upon notifying the presence information;

the server unit includes;

an extended information database which stores extended presence information in which the notified presence information is associated with the operation information;

a generation module generates extended distribution information in which the distribution information is associated with the operation information acquired from the extended information database; and

a distribution module which distributes the extended distribution information to the requester.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein

the generation module acquires operation information corresponding to a status of the requester from the extended information database.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

a number plan database in which a plurality of features are associated with operation number for calling the features, wherein

the generation module reads operation numbers of the features corresponding to the acquired operation information from the number plan database and generates the extended distribution information by combining the operation numbers with the distribution information.

4. The system of claim 3, further comprising:

a help information database in which the plurality of features are each associated with help information for operation support, wherein

the generation module reads help information of features corresponding to the acquired operation information from the help information database and generates the extended distribution information by combining the help information with the distribution information.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein

the generation module applies statistical processing to extended presence information to be stored in the extended information database, and involves information showing a frequency of operations to be performed in a status of the requester in the extended distribution information.

6. A server unit provided for a presence service provision system and distributing to a requester distribution information including presence information to be individually notified from a discloser of the presence information upon occurrence of an event, the server unit comprising:

an extended information database in which the presence information notified from the discloser is associated with operation information showing operations of a user posed a notification event of the presence information;

a generation module which generates extended distribution information in which the distribution information is combined with operation information acquired from the extended information database; and

a distribution module which distributes the extended distribution information to the requester.

7. The server unit of claim 6, wherein

the generation module acquires operation information corresponding to a status of the requester from the extended information database.

8. The server unit of claim 7, wherein

the generation module reads operation numbers of features corresponding to the acquired operation information from a number plan database in which a plurality of features are associated with the operation numbers for calling the features, and generates the extended distribution information by combining the operation numbers with the distribution information.

9. The server unit of claim 8, wherein

the generation module reads help information of features corresponding to the acquired operation information from help information database in which the plurality of features are each associated with help information for operation support, and generates the extended distribution information by combining the help information with the distribution information.

10. The server unit of claim 7, wherein

the generation module applies statistical processing to extended presence information to be stored in the extended information database, and involves information showing a frequency of operations to be performed in a status of the requester in the extended distribution information.