SOCIAL PRESENCE

• US 20160127295A1
• Filed: 10/26/2015
• Published: 05/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Karimli, Yasmin, Iyer, Karthik, Nimbavikar, Gunjan
• Granted Patent: US 10,587,558 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/043 using or handling presence information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• 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: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/42 for mass transport vehicles, e.g. buses, trains or aircraft

Abstract

Publishing social presence data associated with users in flight to other users associated with messaging services is described. Technologies described herein include determining messaging services offered by a telecommunications service provider are enabled to facilitate an exchange of communication data between a first user device associated with a first user that is physically located in an aircraft and associated with a connectivity services service provider and at least one second user device associated with a second user. The technologies described herein can include, based at least partly on determining that the messaging services are enabled, receiving communication data from the first user device, accessing presence data from the first user device, sending the communication data to the at least one second user device, and causing the presence data to be presented on the at least one second user device.

Claims

1. A system associated with a telecommunications service provider comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more modules stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

determining messaging services offered by a telecommunications service provider are enabled to facilitate an exchange of communication data between a first user device associated with a first user that is physically located in an aircraft and associated with a connectivity services service provider and at least one second user device associated with a second user;

receiving communication data from the first user device;

accessing presence data from the first user device;

sending the communication data to the at least one second user device; and

causing the presence data to be presented on the at least one second user device.

2. The system as claim 1 recites, wherein the communication data comprises a text message, a multimedia message, or a voice message represented by a visual element.

3. The system as claim 1 recites, wherein the presence data comprises location data.

4. The system as claim 3 recites, wherein causing the presence data to be presented on the at least one second user device comprises causing a text element to be presented, the text element indicating a geographical location of the first user identified by the location data.

5. The system as claim 3 recites, wherein causing the presence data to be presented on the at least one second user device comprises causing a graphical element to be presented, the graphical element indicating a geographical location of the first user identified by the location data.

6. The system as claim 1 recites, wherein causing the presence data to be presented on the at least one second user device comprises causing a text element to be presented, the text element indicating that the first user is on the aircraft.

7. The system as claim 1 recites, wherein causing the presence data to be presented on the at least one second user device comprises causing a graphical element to be presented, the graphical element indicating that the first user is on the aircraft.

8. The system as claim 1 recites, wherein the presence data comprises availability data indicating that the first user is available, unavailable, or in a meeting.

9. The system as claim 1 recites, wherein the presence data comprises personal data associated with the first user, the personal data including data indicating a birthday, an anniversary, or another notable date associated with the first user.

10. The system as claim 1 recites, wherein the second user is physically located in the aircraft.

11. A computer-implemented method comprising:

sending, from a first user device associated with a first user that is physically located in an aircraft, a query to enable messaging services offered by a telecommunications service provider;

sending communication data to a second user device associated with the telecommunications service provider;

determining, based at least in part on a location device associated with the first user device, presence data associated with the first user device, the presence data comprising location data; and

sending presence data to the second user device.

12. A computer-implemented method as claim 11 recites, wherein determining the presence data is based at last in part on sending the first communication data.

13. A computer-implemented method as claim 11 recites, wherein determining the presence data is based at last in part on a particular frequency.

14. A computer-implemented method as claim 11 recites, wherein determining the presence data is based at last in part on a lapse of a period of time.

15. A computer-implemented method as claim 11 recites, wherein the location data comprises data describing at least one of a region, a continent, a country, a state, a city, a street, or a landmark corresponding to a geographical location of the first user device.

16. One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

determining that messaging services are enabled to permit a first user device to send communication data to one or more second user devices, wherein;

the first user device is associated with a first user that is physically located in an aircraft;

individual second user devices of the one or more second user devices are associated with second users; and

the first user and the second users each have user profiles associated with a telecommunications service provider providing the messaging services;

receiving communication data from the first user device;

accessing presence data associated with the first user;

sending the communication data to at least one second user device of the one or more second user devices; and

causing the presence data to be presented on the at least one second user device.

17. One or more computer storage media as claim 16 recites, wherein the second users correspond to contacts on a contacts list associated with a first user profile of the user profiles, the first user profile corresponding to the first user.

18. One or more computer storage media as claim 16 recites, wherein the presence data comprises at least one of location data, availability data, or personal data associated with the first user.

19. One or more computer storage media as claim 16 recites, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving updated presence data from the first user device; and

causing the updated presence data to be presented on the at least one second user device.

20. One or more computer storage media as claim 16 recites, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining a time stamp associated with the presence data; and

causing the time stamp to be presented with the presence data on the at least one second user device.