Mobile telephony presence

• US 8,116,788 B2
• Filed: 06/10/2008
• Issued: 02/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Plantronics, Inc.
• Inventors: Sarkissian, Frederick, Siegel, Jeffrey
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Tuan A
• Application Number:
  US12/136,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20090305632A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,344 Days
• Field of Search: 4554141-4143, 455/421, 455/445, 4554561-4566, 455/457, 455/41.2, 455/74, 455/74.1, 709206-207
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• 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: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface

Abstract

Systems and methods for reporting of presence information associated with use of a mobile telephone are presented. In one example, a headset that is paired with a cellular mobile phone relays presence information to a presence application running on a computer.

Claims

1. A method for reporting user mobile phone activity comprising:

establishing a Bluetooth audio SCO link between a mobile phone and a headset;

transmitting from the headset to a client device over a Bluetooth ACL link an AT command message indicating establishment of the Bluetooth audio SCO link;

translating the AT command message to an associated presence state; and

reporting the associated presence state to a presence server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the associated presence state is on-a-mobile-phone-call, on-a-call, busy, or unavailable.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing a Bluetooth audio SCO link between a mobile phone and a headset comprises accepting an incoming mobile phone call to a mobile phone on the headset.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing a Bluetooth audio SCO link between a mobile phone and a headset comprises initiating an outgoing call from the mobile phone.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

terminating the Bluetooth audio SCO link between the mobile phone and the headset;

transmitting from the headset to the client device over the Bluetooth ACL link a termination AT command message indicating call termination;

translating the termination AT command message to a presence state indicating the user is available; and

reporting the presence state indicating the user is available to the presence server.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting from the headset to the client device caller id information.

7. A system for reporting user mobile phone activity comprising:

a Bluetooth headset;

a cellular network mobile telephone paired with the Bluetooth headset, the cellular network mobile telephone operable to establish a Bluetooth audio SCO link with the Bluetooth headset;

a client computer paired with the Bluetooth headset and in communication with a presence server, the client computer operable to receive over a Bluetooth ACL link an AT command message indicating the Bluetooth audio SCO link has been established, translate the AT command message to an associated presence state, and send the associated presence state to the presence server.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the associated presence state is on-a-call, busy, or unavailable.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the Bluetooth audio SCO link is established responsive to a user accepting an incoming mobile phone call to a mobile phone on a headset.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the Bluetooth audio SCO link is established responsive to a user initiating an outgoing call from the cellular network mobile telephone.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method for reporting user mobile phone activity comprising:

establishing a communication channel with a headset;

receiving over the communication channel a status message that the headset has opened or terminated an audio communication channel with a mobile phone;

translating the status message to an associated presence state; and

sending the associated presence state to a presence server.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the communication channel is a Bluetooth ACL channel.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the status message is an AT command message.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the audio communication channel is a Bluetooth audio SCO link.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the associated presence state is on-a-call, busy, or unavailable if the status message indicates the headset has opened the audio communication channel with the mobile phone.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the associated presence state is available if the status message indicates the headset has terminated the audio communication channel with the mobile phone.

17. A system for reporting user PBX telephone activity comprising:

a Bluetooth headset;

a PBX telephone paired with the Bluetooth headset, the PBX telephone operable to establish a Bluetooth audio SCO link with the Bluetooth headset;

a client computer paired with the Bluetooth headset and in communication with a presence server, the client computer operable to receive over a Bluetooth ACL link an AT command message indicating the Bluetooth audio SCO link has been established, translate the AT command message to an associated presence state, and send the associated presence state to the presence server.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the associated presence state is on-a-PBX-call, on-a-call, busy, or unavailable.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the Bluetooth audio SCO link is established responsive to a user accepting an incoming phone call to a PBX telephone.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the Bluetooth audio SCO link is established responsive to a user initiating an outgoing call from a PBX telephone.