METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TREATING PRESENCE

• US 20100070866A1
• Filed: 03/16/2009
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: SHEN, WAN WAN, TUNG, HSING FU, HO, CHE SHIUN, LIU, SHIH HAO
• Application Number:
  US12/404,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20100070866A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/733
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A method for treating presences is performed as follows. A watcher uses “subscribe” in requesting to subscribe presences of contact persons, and the updated presences of the contact persons are transmitted by “notify” to the watchers through a filtering scheme. The filtering scheme is based on GUI display of the watchers, the last accessing time of the contact persons, and/or the auto leave status of the watcher.

Claims

1. A presence treating method, comprising:

subscribing presences of contact persons by a watcher; and

notifying the watcher of the presences of the contact persons on a basis of a filtering scheme, wherein the filtering scheme is based on at least one of graphic user interface (GUI) display, no-communication period of the contact persons, and auto leave status of the watcher.

2. The presence treating method of claim 1, wherein the filtering scheme assesses a necessity of notifying the watcher.

3. The presence treating method of claim 1, wherein the GUI display indicates whether the contact persons in the watcher'"'"'s GUI are visible so as to determine a necessity of notifying the watcher.

4. The presence treating method of claim 3, wherein the indication of whether the contact persons in the watcher'"'"'s GUI are visible depends on whether a presence service software window at a client side is minimized, a position of a scroll bar of a contact list window of the contact persons, an expansion or hiding of a group, and an overlap of presence service software window at a client side and/or other software windows.

5. The presence treating method of claim 1, wherein the no-communication period is an interval since a last communication between the watcher and the contact persons so as to determine a necessity of notifying the watcher.

6. The presence treating method of claim 5, wherein the no-communication period is determined by communication behaviors comprising receiving/initiating instant messaging communication with the contact persons, receiving/initiating network voice/video communication with the contact persons, reviewing the contact person'"'"'s profile and instant inquiry of presence of the contact person.

7. The presence treating method of claim 1, wherein the auto leave status of the watcher is related to automatically changing the presence of the user to leave status when a presence service software at a client side of the watcher is not used for a determined period of time so as to determine a necessity of notifying the watcher.

8. The presence treating method of claim 1, wherein the filtering scheme comprises a plurality of filtering levels.

9. The presence treating method of claim 8, wherein the plurality of filtering levels comprises:

a high level of no filtering conditions, notifying the watcher whenever the status of the contact person of the high level is changed;

a medium level, notifying the watcher whenever the contact person of the medium level changes from off-line to on-line; and

a low level, the contact person of the low level having a zero transmission frequency of notifying the watcher.

10. The presence treating method of claim 8, wherein the filtering levels are adjusted timely as determined by assessment process of the filtering levels.

11. A presence treating system, comprising:

a graphic user interface (GUI) of a watcher;

a presence server; and

a list server storing a contact list of the watcher;

wherein the watcher is notified of the presences of the contact persons on a basis of a filtering scheme, and the filtering scheme is based on at least one of graphic user interface (GUI) display, no-communication period of the contact persons, and auto leave status of the watcher.

12. The presence treating system of claim 11, wherein the list server further stores a last access time of the contact person to determine the no-communication period.

13. The presence treating system of claim 11, wherein the filtering scheme is performed at the watcher'"'"'s side.

14. The presence treating system of claim 11, wherein the GUI display indicates whether the contact persons in the GUI of the watcher are visible so as to determine a necessity of notifying the watcher.

15. The presence treating system of claim 14, wherein the indication of whether the contact persons in the watcher'"'"'s GUI are visible depends on whether a presence service software window at a client side is minimized, a position of a scroll bar of a contact list window of the contact persons, an expansion or hiding of a group, and an overlap of presence service software window at a client side and/or other software windows.

16. The presence treating system of claim 11, wherein the no-communication period is an interval since the last communication between the watcher and the contact persons so as to determine a necessity of notifying the watcher.

17. The presence treating system of claim 16, wherein the non-communication period is determined by communication behaviors comprising receiving/initiating instant messaging communication with the contact persons, receiving/initiating network voice/video communication with the contact persons, reviewing the contact person'"'"'s profile and instant inquiry of presence of the contact person.

18. The presence treating system of claim 11, wherein the auto leave status of the watcher is related to automatically changing the presence of the user to leave status when a presence service software at a client side of the watcher is not used for a determined time so as to determine a necessity of notifying the watcher.

19. The presence treating system of claim 11, wherein the filtering scheme comprises a plurality of filtering levels.

20. The presence treating system of claim 19, wherein the plurality of filtering levels comprises:

a high level of no filtering conditions, notifying the watcher whenever the status of the contact person of the high level is changed;

a medium level, notifying the watcher whenever the contact person of the medium level changes from off-line to on-line; and

a low level, the contact person of the low level having a zero transmission frequency of notifying the watcher.

21. The presence treating system of claim 19, wherein the 15 filtering levels are adjusted timely as determined by assessment process of the filtering levels.