RICH PRESENCE STATUS BASED ON LOCATION, ACTIVITY, AVAILABILITY AND TRANSIT STATUS OF A USER

• US 20110183645A1
• Filed: 03/22/2011
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: mPanion Incorporated
• Original Assignee: mPanion Incorporated
• Inventors: Chawla, Neeraj
• Granted Patent: US 8,583,079 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/410
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/14 with services dependent on location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42357 where the information is provided to a monitoring entity such as a potential calling party or a call processing server
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42374 where the information is provided to a monitoring entity such as a potential calling party or a call processing server

Abstract

A method and system for determining and sharing rich presence status of a user is presented. Multiple types of presence status options are associated with user'"'"'s status based on location, activity, availability, transit status, and user'"'"'s text updates, which the user can selectively share on their mobile device with different groups of users, and make one or more aspects of their presence status broadly available to everyone. Also a system to determine status based on auto-updates and manual updates is presented.

Claims

1. A system for determining a rich presence status of a user, comprising:

at least a mobile device capable of determining the input parameters associated with one or more of location, activity, availability, or transit status of the user;

at least an application server maintaining privacy settings of the user;

at least the application server is capable of determining status of user based on said input parameters;

wherein the rich presence status can be determined based on location, activity, availability and/or transit status of the user.

2. The system of claim 1:

wherein the application server further maintains groups and associated privacy settings of the user.

3. The system of claim 1, including:

the application server further maintains privacy levels which can be associated with groups and/or contacts of the user to determine what status is available to a contact.

4. The system of claim 1, including:

the mobile device determines and provides relevant textual status options based on the location or activity of the user.

5. The system of claim 1, including:

the mobile device is further capable of sending user'"'"'s status as text messages to groups of users.

7. The method of claim 1:

wherein the mobile device and/or application server can associate user-specified defaults for status options associated with favorite locations of the user.

8. The method of claim 1:

wherein the mobile device and/or application server can associate system-specified defaults for point of locations categories and/or specific points of locations.

6. A method for determining a rich presence status of a user, comprising:

at least a mobile device determining the input parameters associated with one or more of location, activity, availability, or transit status of the user;

the mobile device sending the input parameters to an application server;

the application server associating privacy settings associated with groups of contacts;

the application server sharing the status with said contacts based on associated privacy settings;