SYNDICATED PRESENCE AND ACTIVITY FEED FEDERATED VIA EXTENDED INTEROPERABLE FORMAT

• US 20100235505A1
• Filed: 03/10/2009
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Gupta, Amit, Ramanathan, Rajesh, Bhattacharjee, Avronil, Hehmeyer, Alexander M.
• Application Number:
  US12/400,821
• Publication Number:
  US 20100235505A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

Architecture for extending a presence document into additional formats and protocols. An aggregator federates the presence document into a standardized schema that can be consumed at a standardized endpoint. The standardized schema can be a web feed that is interoperably consumed by a web feed consumer, for example, an RSS/Atom schema. Access of the presence document content is controlled based on a relationship between the user and a subscriber. Categories are specified for the presence document content, and access is controlled according to the categories. The specified categories can correspond to user authentication levels. The categories can include multiple syndicated channels corresponding to multiple subscriber access levels. In this way, levels of access are defined for various categories of availability information and activity information, based on the relationship of the user to the subscriber.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented communications system, comprising:

a presence component for incorporating user information into a presence document; and

a schema component for mapping the presence document into a standardized, interoperable schema and federating to a standardized endpoint based on the schema.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the standardized schema comprises a mapping to a web feed and the standardized endpoint is a web feed consumer.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the schema component comprises an RSS (really simple syndication) schema component for extending the presence document according to an RSS protocol.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the standardized endpoint comprises a web feed consumer for consuming the presence document in a syndicated language.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising an access control component for controlling access to the user information in the presence document based on a user/subscriber relationship.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the schema component federates the presence document to standardized and default internal endpoints.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the user information further comprises availability information that includes at least one of user time availability information, user location availability information, or user contact information.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the user information further comprises activity information that includes at least one of a current user project on which the user is working, related project information, or activity information from social media and enterprise applications.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the presence document further comprises publish time information and source information for the user information.

10. A computer-implemented communications system, comprising:

a presence component for incorporating availability information and activity information of a user into a presence document;

a control component for controlling access of presence document content based on a relationship between the user and a subscriber; and

an aggregator component for federating the presence document into a web feed to enable standardized, interoperable consumption by a web feed consumer.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising a category component for specifying categories of the presence document content, the control component controls access according to the categories.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the categories specified by the category component include category instances that correspond to user authentication levels and multiple syndicated channels that correspond to multiple subscriber access levels.

13. The system of claim 10, further comprising a schema component for mapping the presence document into a standardized, interoperable RSS schema.

14. A computer-implemented method of communications, comprising:

incorporating availability information and activity information of a publisher in a presence document;

controlling access to the availability information and the activity information based on a relationship between the publisher and a watcher; and

publishing the presence document to the watcher via a web feed for processing of the availability information and the activity information.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising federating the availability information and the activity information in a feed operating according to a syndicated language protocol, the feed consumed an RSS consumer of a subscriber.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the availability information includes one or more of user time availability information, user location availability information, or user contact information, and the activity information includes one or more of a current user project, related project information, or activity information from social media and enterprise applications.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising mapping SIP (session initiation protocol) access levels to web access levels.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

specifying categories of the availability information and activity information;

specifying category instances corresponding to user authentication levels; and

controlling access according to the categories.

19. The method of claim 14, further comprising translating SIP rich presence into web presence.

20. The method of claim 14, further comprising federating the availability information and activity information to trusted organizations for consumption by endpoints in the trusted organizations.