IN-VEHICLE MULTIMEDIA REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS
First Claim
1. A system for providing in-vehicle communication services, the system comprising:
- a communications network;
a vehicle user agent communicatively coupled with the first communications network, wherein the vehicle user agent publishes one or more published presence attributes; and
a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) communicatively coupled with the communications network, the SDP providing a presence service adapted to receive the one or more published presence attributes from the vehicle user agent and update a presence profile for the vehicle user agent based on the received presence attributes wherein the presence attributes comprise at least one attribute indicating information other than presence information and to provide one or more telco functions to the vehicle user agent.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing an in-vehicle, multimedia, real-time communication system. According to one embodiment, a system for providing in-vehicle communication services can comprise a communications network and a vehicle user agent communicatively coupled with the first communications network, wherein the vehicle user agent publishes one or more published presence attributes. A Service Delivery Platform (SDP) can be communicatively coupled with the communications network. The SDP can provide a presence service adapted to receive the one or more published presence attributes from the vehicle user agent and update a presence profile for the vehicle user agent based on the received presence attributes. The presence attributes can comprise at least one attribute indicating information other than presence information and to provide one or more telco functions to the vehicle user agent.
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30 Claims
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1. A system for providing in-vehicle communication services, the system comprising:
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a communications network; a vehicle user agent communicatively coupled with the first communications network, wherein the vehicle user agent publishes one or more published presence attributes; and a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) communicatively coupled with the communications network, the SDP providing a presence service adapted to receive the one or more published presence attributes from the vehicle user agent and update a presence profile for the vehicle user agent based on the received presence attributes wherein the presence attributes comprise at least one attribute indicating information other than presence information and to provide one or more telco functions to the vehicle user agent. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method for providing in-vehicle communication services, the method comprising:
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publishing one or more presence attributes with a vehicle user agent to a presence service; receiving the one or more published presence attributes from the vehicle user agent at the presence service; and updating a presence profile for the vehicle user agent with the presence service based on the received presence attributes, wherein the presence attributes comprise at least one attribute indicating information other than presence information and to provide one or more telco functions to the vehicle user agent. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon a series of executable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to provide in-vehicle communication services by:
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receiving one or more published presence attributes from a vehicle user agent at a presence service of a Service Delivery Platform (SDP), wherein the one or more published presence attributes comprise one or more of an attribute indicating a vehicle location and an attribute indicating vehicle telemetrics; updating a presence profile for the vehicle user agent with the presence service based on the received presence attributes, wherein the presence attributes comprise at least one attribute indicating information other than presence information and to provide one or more telco functions to the vehicle user agent, wherein the one or more telco functions are selected from a group consisting of;
a charging function;
a Quality of Service (QoS) management and enforcement function; and
a presence service; andproviding with the SDP one or more services with features as provided by IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), wherein the one or more services are selected from a group consisting of;
a streaming media service;
an IP television service;
a multimedia messaging service;
an instant messaging service;
a telephony service;
a presence service;
a push-to-talk service;
a conference service;
a voice conference service;
a download service; and
an upload service.
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