Presence system and information processing equipment, dynamic buddy list generation method in presence system, and presence notification destination controlling method and its program for use with presence system

• US 7,844,667 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2004
• Issued: 11/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ito, Naoko, Watanabe, Masafumi
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAW, PELING ANDY
• Application Number:
  US10/761,364
• Publication Number:
  US 20040153506A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,504 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709223-224, 726/4, 715751-753
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• 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 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A presentity service client has a presentity that issues presence information to a presence service and a watcher which observes presence information for other presentities; a presence change rule holding part holds a presence change rule; and a presence calculating part changes the presence information for the presentity, using as a trigger a change in presence information of other presentities, based on the presence information of other presentity acquired by the watcher and in accordance with the presence change rule held by a presence change rules holding part.

Claims

1. A presence system, comprising:

a presence service client means for providing presence information of a first presentity and for receiving presence information of at least one second presentity;

a presence service means for receiving presence information of the first presentity from the presence service client means and for delivering presence information of the at least one second presentity to the presence service client means; and

a presence calculating means for determining the presence information of said first presentity based on a change in the presence information of the at least one second presentity,

wherein said presence calculating means includes a presence change rule storing means for storing a presence change rule that prescribes how the presence information for said first presentity is determined based on the presence information of said at least one second presentity,

wherein said presence change rule comprises a conditional expression for the presence value of said at least one second presentity and a change of value for the presence information of the first presentity in which the change in value is applied if the conditional expression is satisfied.

5. The presence system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said first presentity issues its own presence to said presence service means.

2. A presence system, comprising:

a presence service client means for providing presence information of a first presentity and for receiving presence information of at least one second presentity and at least one third presentity among a plurality of presentities;

a presence service means for receiving presence information of the first presentity from the presence service client means and for delivering presence information of the at least one second and at least one third presentities to the presence service client means; and

a presence calculating means for determining the presence information of said first presentity based on the presence information of the at least one second and at least one third presentities,

wherein said presence calculating means includes a presence change rule storing means for storing a presence change rule that prescribes how the presence information for said first presentity is determined based on the presence information of said at least one second and at least one third presentities,

wherein said presence change rule comprises a conditional expression for the presence value of said at least one second and at least one third presentities and a change of value for the presence information of the first presentity in which the change in value is applied if the conditional expression is satisfied.

3. The presence system as set forth in claim 2, wherein said first presentity is a presentity in a group to which said plurality of presentities belong.

4. The presence system as set forth in claim 3, further comprising:

a group member managing means for adding, modifying, and deleting said presentities belonging to said group.

6. The presence system as set forth in claim 2, wherein said first presentity issues its own presence to said presence service means.

7. An information processing equipment, comprising:

a presence service client means for providing presence information of a first presentity to a presence service means and for receiving from said presence service means presence information of at least one second presentity; and

a presence calculating means for determining the presence information of said first presentity based on a change in presence information for said at least one second presentity,

wherein said presence calculating means comprises a presence change rule storing means for storing a presence change rule that prescribes how the presence information for said first presentity is determined based on the presence information of said at least one second presentity,

wherein said presence change rule comprises a conditional expression for the presence value of said at least one second presentity and a change of value for the presence information of the first presentity in which the change in value is applied if the conditional expression is satisfied.

8. An information processing equipment, comprising:

a presence service client means for providing presence information of a first presentity to a presence service means and for receiving from said presence service means presence information of at least one second presentity and at least one third presentity among a plurality of presentities; and

a presence calculating means for determining the presence information of said first presentity based on presence information of said at least one second and at least one third presentities;

wherein said presence calculating means comprises a presence change rule storing means for storing a presence change rule that prescribes how the presence information for said first presentity is determined based on the presence information of said at least one second and at least one third presentities,

wherein said presence change rule comprises a conditional expression for the presence value of said at least one second and at least one third presentities and a change of value for the presence information of the first presentity in which the change in value is applied if the conditional expression is satisfied.

9. The information processing equipment as set forth in claim 8, wherein said first presentity is a presentity in a group to which said plurality of presentities belong.

10. The information processing equipment as set forth in claim 9, further comprising:

a group member managing means for adding, modifying, and deleting said presentities belonging to said group.

11. A computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a presence notification destination controlling program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to function as a presence system comprising:

a presence service client means for providing presence information of a first presentity to a presence service means and for receiving from said presence service means presence information of at least one second presentity; and

a presence calculating means for determining the presence information of said first presentity based on a change in presence information for said at least one second presentity, in accordance with a predetermined presence change rule that indicates how the presence information for said first presentity is determined,

wherein said presence calculating means comprises a presence change rule storing means for storing a presence change rule that prescribes how the presence information for said first presentity is determined based on the presence information for said at least one second presentity,

wherein said presence change rule comprises a conditional expression for the presence value of said at least one second presentity and a change of value for the presence information of the first presentity in which the change in value is applied if the conditional expression is satisfied.

12. A computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a presence notification destination controlling program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to function as a presence system comprising:

a presence service client means for providing presence information of a first presentity to a presence service means and for receiving from said presence service means presence information of at least one second presentity and at least one third presentity among a plurality of presentities; and

a presence calculating means for determining the presence information of said first presentity based on presence information of said at least one second and at least one third presentities, the presence information determined from a predetermined presence change rule that indicates how the presence information for said first presentity is determined,

wherein said presence calculating means comprises a presence change rule storing means for storing a presence change rule that prescribes how the presence information for said first presentity is determined based on the presence information of said at least one second and at least one third presentities,

wherein said presence change rule comprises a conditional expression for the presence value of said at least one second and at least one third presentities and a change of value for the presence information of the first presentity in which the change in value is applied if the conditional expression is satisfied.