TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK

• US 20110010416A1
• Filed: 07/21/2008
• Published: 01/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks US LLC (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks US LLC (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Dhruva, Aditya
• Application Number:
  US12/671,952
• Publication Number:
  US 20110010416A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• 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: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A method of managing a subscriber presence of a telecommunication network comprises the step of registering with the telecommunication network by the subscriber. The telecommunication network produces a feed of the subscriber presence whilst a feed reader reads the feed.

Claims

1. A method of managing subscriber presence of a telecommunication network (10) that comprises the step of:

registering with the telecommunication network (10) by a subscriber (11),

producing a feed (13) of a presence of the subscriber (11) by the telecommunication network (10), and

reading the feed (13) by a feed reader (16).

2. The method according to claim 1 characterized in that the step of producing a feed (13) of the presence of the subscriber (11) by the telecommunication network (10) comprises the step of producing a feed (13) of the presence of the subscriber (11) by a telecommunication network subscriber repository (12).

3. The method according to claim 1 characterized in that the telecommunication network (10) comprises an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem network (10).

4. The method according to claim 3 characterized in that the telecommunication network subscriber repository (12) comprises a Home Subscriber Server (12).

5. The method according to claim 1 characterized in that data of the feed (13) are in a Really Simple Syndication format.

6. The method according to claim 1 comprises the further step of providing a service that is based on the data of the feed (13) by an application (15).

7. The method according to claim 6 characterized in that the service provided by the application (15) comprises a time-based billing of subscribers (11).

8. A system of telecommunication that comprises a telecommunication network (10), the telecommunication network (10) produces a feed (13) of a presence of the subscriber (11), and a feed reader (16) for polling and reading the feed (13).

9. The system according to claim 8 characterized in that the telecommunication network (10) comprises a telecommunication network subscriber repository (12).

10. The system according to claim 8 characterized in that the telecommunication network (10) comprises an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem network (10).

11. The system according to claim 9 characterized in that the telecommunication network subscriber repository (12) comprises a Home Subscriber Server (12).

12. The system according to claim 8 characterized in that data of the feed (13) are in a Really Simple Syndication format.

13. The system according to claim 8 characterized in that

the Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem network (10) provides a service that is based on the data of the feed (13).