Methods, systems and computer program products for enhancing presence services
First Claim
1. A method for enhancing presence services, comprising:
- registering a region of a third party in an icon server;
receiving, into the icon server, presence data from a mobile device corresponding to a user presence within the registered region;
transmitting a custom icon that corresponds to the third party from the icon server to the mobile device configured to display the custom icon;
receiving a presence publication into a presence server from the mobile device, wherein the presence publication include the custom icon that was transmitted from the icon server to the mobile device, wherein the presence server is separate from the icon server; and
transmitting the custom icon that was received from the mobile device and that corresponds, to the user presence in the registered region, from the presence server to a presence server subscriber that can determine that the user is in a region defined by the third party.
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Abstract
Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products for enhancing presence services. Such methods may include associating, in a database, a custom icon associated with a third party and a region and communicating a user presence in the associated region by transmitting a custom icon to a subscriber. Such systems may include a presence server configured to determine and communicate, to a subscriber, presence information corresponding to a user mobile device and an icon server configured to associate and store presence information of a third party and a custom icon corresponding to the third party, to modify the custom icon responsive to received data indicative of opinion data corresponding to the third party, and to transmit the custom icon to the user mobile device and to the subscriber.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for enhancing presence services, comprising:
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registering a region of a third party in an icon server; receiving, into the icon server, presence data from a mobile device corresponding to a user presence within the registered region; transmitting a custom icon that corresponds to the third party from the icon server to the mobile device configured to display the custom icon; receiving a presence publication into a presence server from the mobile device, wherein the presence publication include the custom icon that was transmitted from the icon server to the mobile device, wherein the presence server is separate from the icon server; and transmitting the custom icon that was received from the mobile device and that corresponds, to the user presence in the registered region, from the presence server to a presence server subscriber that can determine that the user is in a region defined by the third party. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for enhancing presence services, comprising:
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a presence server configured to determine and communicate, to a presence server subscriber, presence information corresponding to a user mobile device; and an icon server that is separate from the presence server and that is configured to associate and store presence information of a third party and a custom icon corresponding to the third party, to modify the custom icon responsive to received data indicative of opinion data corresponding to the third party, and to transmit the custom icon to the user mobile device, wherein the user mobile device transmits the custom icon received from the icon server to the presence server subscriber that can determine that the user mobile device is in a region defined by the third party. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for enhancing presence services, comprising:
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associating, in a database, a custom icon associated with a third party and a virtually defined region; receiving, into a presence server from a mobile device, user presence information; sending, from the presence server, to an icon server that is separate from the presence server, the user presence information;
transmitting, from the icon server to a presence server subscriber, the user presence information, wherein the transmitted user presence information include the custom icon;updating a presence icon on a display of the mobile device with the custom icon if the user presence information is within the presence data of the associated region; and communicating a user presence in the associated region by transmitting a custom icon to the presence server subscriber that can determine that the user mobile device is in a region defined by the third party. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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