Method and apparatus for mobile presence aggregation

• US 8,799,377 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2010
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Jana, Rittwik, Donnellan, Kevin, Jora, Serban Vadim, Murray, John, Rice, Christopher W., Wright, Richard W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Philip B
• Application Number:
  US12/967,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20120150974A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,330 Days
• Field of Search: 709206-207, 709/223, 709/230, 709/246, 709/203
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion

Abstract

A method, computer readable medium for performing mobile presence aggregation are disclosed. For example, the method acquires presence information associated with a user, packages the presence information into a message and forwards the message containing the presence information via a non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol to a presences access layer server. In another embodiment, the method receives a message containing presence information in a non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol, identifies the presence information in the message, translates the presence information into a presence information data format and forwards the presence information in the presence information data format to a presence server.

Claims

1. A method for forwarding presence information, comprising:

acquiring, via a processor of a mobile device, the presence information associated with a user;

packaging, via the processor, the presence information into a message using a compact dictionary, wherein the message comprises an abbreviated form of the presence information; and

forwarding, via the processor, the message containing the presence information that is abbreviated via a non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol to a presences access layer server, wherein the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol does not store state information, wherein the presences access layer server is for translating the message in the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol into a presence information data format that is used by a presence server to publish the presence information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol comprises a store and forward messaging service.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the message comprises a short message service text message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol comprises a hypertext transfer protocol.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

dynamically selecting the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by a processor of a mobile device, cause the processor to perform operations for forwarding presence information, the operation comprising:

acquiring the presence information associated with a user;

packaging the presence information into a message using a compact dictionary, wherein the message comprises an abbreviated form of the presence information; and

forwarding the message containing the presence information that is abbreviated via a non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol to a presences access layer server, wherein the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol does not store state information, wherein the presences access layer server is for translating the message in the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol into a presence information data format that is used by a presence server to publish the presence information.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol comprises a store and forward messaging service.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the message comprises a short message service text message.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol comprises a hypertext transfer protocol.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6, further comprising:

dynamically selecting the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol.

11. A method for forwarding presence information, comprising:

receiving, via a processor of a presence access layer server, a message containing the presence information, wherein the presence information that is received comprises the presence information that is abbreviated via a compact dictionary, wherein the message is received via a non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol, wherein the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol does not store state information;

identifying, via the processor, the presence information in the message;

translating, via the processor, the presence information into a presence information data format that is used by a presence server to publish the presence information; and

forwarding, via the processor, the presence information in the presence information data format to the presence server.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol comprises a store and forward messaging service.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the message comprises a short message service text message.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol comprises a hypertext transfer protocol.