Managing web services data and presence data

• US 8,428,565 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2008
• Issued: 04/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Middleton, Justin, Ranous, Alex
• Primary Examiner(s): Afshar, Kamran
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, MONG-THUY THI
• Application Number:
  US12/069,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20080172458A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,896 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/226, 701/207, 701/208, 455/414.1, 455/414.2, 455/414.3
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• 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: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/655 Combination of telephone service and social networking messaging within social networks H04L51/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42365 Presence services providing information on the willingness to communicate or the ability to communicate in terms of media capability or network connectivity
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Interfacing a wireless device with web services is described, including social networking web services. For example, a system for interfacing a wireless device with a plurality of web services comprises a web service proxy having an API to allow other modules to interface with the web service proxy; a plurality of web services adapters interfaced with the web services proxy through the API, each one of the web services adapters to communicate with a particular web service using the specific communication formats for the web service; where the web services adapters and the web services proxy convert between the communication formats employed to communicate with each of the web services and a wireless communication format, the wireless communication format being a different format than the communication formats for each of the web services, thereby enabling bi-directional communication between the wireless device and the plurality of web services.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

collecting social networking data for multiple users from multiple social networking sites;

combining the social networking data for the multiple users to generate a unified compilation of the social networking data;

collecting presence data related to a geographic location or an electronic presence of the multiple users;

receiving a request for a list of the multiple users matching a specified criteria related to the social networking data and the presence data;

searching the unified compilation of the social networking data and the presence data in accordance with the request to generate the list of the multiple users matching the specified criteria; and

transmitting the list of the multiple users matching the specified criteria.

2. The method as in claim 1 wherein the electronic presence comprises an indication as to whether one or more of the multiple users is online.

3. The method as in claim 1 wherein the presence data is collected in the form of global positioning data related to a specific location of one or more of the multiple users.

4. The method as in claim 1 wherein the presence data is collected in the form of a city and/or state in which one or more of the multiple users is currently located.

5. The method as in claim 1 wherein the presence data is collected in the form of a street address, intersection or business name.

6. One or more computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, perform a method comprising:

collecting social networking data for multiple users from multiple social networking sites;

combining the social networking data for the multiple users to generate a unified compilation of the social networking data;

collecting presence data related to a geographic location or an electronic presence of the multiple users;

receiving a request for a list of the multiple users matching a specified criteria related to the social networking data and the presence data;

searching the unified compilation of the social networking data and the presence data in accordance with the request to generate the list of the multiple users matching the specified criteria; and

transmitting the list of the multiple users matching the specified criteria.

7. The one or more computer-readable storage media as in claim 6, wherein the electronic presence comprises an indication as to whether one or more of the multiple users is online.

8. The one or more computer-readable storage media as in claim 6, wherein the presence data is collected in the form of global positioning data related to a specific location of one or more of the multiple users.

9. The one or more computer-readable storage media as in claim 6, wherein the presence data is collected in the form of a city and/or state in which one or more of the multiple users is currently located.

10. The one or more computer-readable storage media as in claim 6, wherein the presence data is collected in the form of a street address, intersection or business name.

11. A wireless communication device comprising:

a processor; and

one or more computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, perform a method comprising;

collecting social networking data for multiple users from multiple social networking sites;

combining the social networking data for the multiple users to generate a unified compilation of the social networking data;

collecting presence data related to a geographic location or an electronic presence of the multiple users;

receiving a request for a list of the multiple users matching a specified criteria related to the social networking data and the presence data;

searching the unified compilation of the social networking data and the presence data in accordance with the request to generate the list of the multiple users matching the specified criteria; and

transmitting the list of the multiple users matching the specified criteria.

12. The wireless communication device as in claim 11, wherein the electronic presence comprises an indication as to whether one or more of the multiple users is online.

13. The wireless communication device as in claim 11, wherein the presence data is collected in the form of global positioning data related to a specific location of one or more of the multiple users.

14. The wireless communication device as in claim 11, wherein the presence data is collected in the form of a city and/or state in which one or more of the multiple users is currently located.

15. The wireless communication device as in claim 11, wherein the presence data is collected in the form of a street address, intersection or business name.