Advanced availability detection

• US 8,499,085 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2009
• Issued: 07/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Avaya Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Avaya Incorporated
• Inventors: Klemm, Reinhard Peter, Brotman, Lynne Shapiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Zarni
• Application Number:
  US12/645,866
• Publication Number:
  US 20100235524A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,315 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-218, 709223-229, 709/250
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 47/42 Proteins; Polypeptides; Degradation products thereof; Derivatives thereof, e.g. albumin, gelatin or zein oligopeptides having up to five amino acids A61K47/183; polyamino acids A61K47/34
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/5169 Proteins, e.g. albumin, gelatin
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/17306 Intercommunication techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• 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 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A method is provided in which the present invention is for a method in which a telecommunications terminal determines whether its user is available to accept an incoming invitation to participate in a telecommunications session based on: (1) a characteristic of the use of a software application, (2) a characteristic of the use of a resource of a terminal, (3) a sensor input, (4) a characteristic of the incoming invitation or (5) any combination of (1), (2), (3), (4), and (5).

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a telecommunications terminal, an invitation to participate in a telecommunications session, wherein;

i. conduct of the telecommunications session requires the telecommunications terminal to utilize a first component of a software application, and

ii. the software application is executing on the telecommunications terminal;

obtaining, at the telecommunications terminal, a first characteristic of use of a second component of the software application;

transmitting, from the telecommunications terminal, a rejection of the invitation based on the first characteristic;

obtaining, at the telecommunications terminal, a second characteristic of use of the second component of the software application; and

initiating a telecommunications session from the telecommunications terminal when the second characteristic of use of the second component of the software application meets a criterion.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, at the telecommunications terminal, an indication of an availability policy, and wherein the rejection of the invitation is further based on the availability policy.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first characteristic is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to which the software application established a connection.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first characteristic comprises a presence of a keyword.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first characteristic comprises an access permission for a document that is open for editing by the software application.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the rejection is also based on a characteristic of the invitation to participate in the telecommunications session.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a first string at the telecommunications terminal; and

in response to receiving the first string, accepting the invitation to participate in the telecommunications session.

8. A method comprising:

receiving, at a telecommunications terminal, an invitation to participate in a telecommunications session, wherein conduct of the telecommunications session requires use of a first software application;

obtaining, at the telecommunications terminal, a first characteristic of use of a component of a second software application, wherein the second software application is executing on the telecommunications terminal;

transmitting, from the telecommunications terminal, a rejection of the invitation based on the first characteristic of use of the component of the second software application;

obtaining, at the telecommunications terminal, a second characteristic of use of the component of the second software application; and

initiating a telecommunications session from the telecommunications terminal when the second characteristic of use of the component of the second software application matches a criterion.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving, at the telecommunications terminal, an indication of an availability policy, and wherein the rejection of the invitation is also based on the availability policy.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the first characteristic comprises a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to which the second software application established a connection.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the first characteristic comprises a presence of a keyword.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the first characteristic comprises an access permission for a document that is open for editing by the second software application.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the rejection is also based on a characteristic of the invitation to participate in the telecommunications session.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a first string at the telecommunications terminal; and

in response to receiving the first string, accepting the incoming invitation to participate in the telecommunications session.