Web feed presence

• US 8,209,383 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2006
• Issued: 06/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Veeramachaneni, Jithendra K., Obasanjo, Oludare, Gordon, Stephen R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing
• Assistant Examiner(s): Thieu, Benjamin M
• Application Number:
  US11/380,158
• Publication Number:
  US 20070250577A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,254 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219, 709203-206, 709/223, 709228-229, 709/231, 709/226, 715/202, 715/501, 715/513, 715/751, 715/752, 715/733, 455/344, 455/412, 455/414
• US Class Current: 709/206
• 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

Abstract

Web feed presence techniques are described herein. In an implementation, a method includes obtaining a web feed describing content of the user and presence data of the user. The web feed is output with the presence data concurrently.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

obtaining, by a computing device, a web feed describing content of an originating user published over a network;

obtaining, by the computing device, presence data describing an online presence of the originating user and an online presence of one or more other users included in a list of contacts that a recipient of the web feed would have an increased likelihood of being interested in communicating with; and

concurrently outputting, by the computing device to the recipient, the web feed with the presence data of the originating user to indicate whether the originating user and the one or more other users are available to communicate with the recipient and to identify two or more techniques to electronically communicate, based in part on the presence data, with at least one of the originating user or the one or more other users, the presence data being incorporated within the content of the originating user;

wherein the presence data describing the online presence of the originating user is obtained from a presence service and the web feed is obtained from a service different than the presence service.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the obtaining presence data is performed automatically based on whether the originating user is included in a list of contacts.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the presence data describing the online presence of the originating user is contained in metadata included in the web feed.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the presence service is configured to provide instant messaging.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the service different than the presence service is configured to provide web logs (blogs).

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the outputting further includes a link that is selectable to navigate to the content pertaining to the originating user.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein:

the presence data describing the online presence of the originating user corresponds to two or more particular communication techniques; and

the outputting further includes a portion that is selectable to initiate communication with the originating user via the two or more particular communication techniques.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the obtaining is performed by a web feed service and further comprising communicating the presence data describing the online presence of the originating user and the web feed over a network to a client that performs the outputting.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

subscribing to the web feed originated by a content provider and another web feed originated by another content provider; and

outputting the web feed in conjunction with the presence data describing online presence of the originating user with the web feed originated by the another content provider and data describing online presence of another user.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the outputting further includes a portion that is selectable to initiate communication with the originating user via a communication technique independent of presence data.

11. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the two or more techniques comprise instant messaging, Voice over Internet Protocol (VolP), wireless telephone, and telephone, or a combination thereof.

12. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

obtaining, by a computing device, a plurality of web feeds describing content of one or more originating users published over a network;

deriving, by the computing device, presence data describing online presence information for the one or more originating users that correspond to the plurality of web feeds; and

outputting, by the computing device, to a recipient the plurality of web feeds and the presence data for the one or more originating users concurrently, the presence data indicating whether the one or more originating users are available to communicate with the recipient corresponding to two or more techniques to electronically communicate, at least a portion that is selectable to initiate communication with the one or more originating users via the two or more techniques to electronically communicate, the presence data being incorporated within the content of the one or more originating users;

wherein the presence data describing the online presence of the originating user is obtained from a presence service and the web feed is obtained from a service different than the presence service.

13. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 12, further comprising forming a communication that includes the derived online presence information and at least one of the web feeds for communication over a network.

14. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 12, wherein the obtaining and the deriving are performed automatically based on whether a corresponding user of the one or more originating users is included in a list of contacts.

15. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 12 further comprising outputting a portion that is selectable to initiate communication with the one or more originating users via a communication technique different than the particular communication technique.

16. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a display device communicatively coupled to the processor, the display device outputting a user interface that includes;

presence data describing online presence of an originating user and corresponding to two or more particular communication techniques;

a web feed describing content generated by the originating user published over a network,

wherein the presence data and the web feed are displayed concurrently to indicate whether the originating user is available to communicate with a recipient and to identify how the originating user is available and wherein the presence data is incorporated within the content generated by the originating user; and

a portion that is selectable to initiate communication with the originating user via the two or more particular communication techniques;

wherein the presence data describing the online presence of the originating user is obtained from a presence service and the web feed is obtained from a service different than the presence service.

17. The system as recited in claim 16, wherein one or more computer executable instructions further direct the display device to output a link that is selectable to navigate to the content pertaining to the originating user.

18. The system as recited in claim 16, wherein one or more computer-executable instructions further direct the display device to act as a real simple syndication (RSS) reader to read the web feed.

19. The system as recited in claim 16, wherein the user interface further includes presence data describing a location of the originating user.