Web feed presence

• US 9,002,959 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2012
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Veeramachaneni, Jithendra K., Obasanjo, Oludare, Gordon, Stephen R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Thieu, Benjamin M
• Application Number:
  US13/532,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20120265820A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,016 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219, 709203-206, 709/223, 709228-229, 709/231, 715/202, 715/501, 715751-752, 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 post 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, wherein a source of the presence data describing the online presence of the originating user comprises a presence service and a source of the web post describing the content comprises another service different than the presence service;

identifying, based at least in part on the web post, one or more other users included in a list of contacts of a recipient of the web post;

obtaining presence data describing an online presence of the determined one or more other users included in the list of contacts of the recipient of the web post; and

concurrently outputting, by the computing device to the recipient, the web post 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 or the online presence, with at least one of the originating user or the one or more other users.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the web post is formatted in compliance with Real Simple Syndication (RSS) or Atom.

3. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the presence data describing the online presence of the originating user and the online presence of the one or more other users indicates, using text from a natural language, whether the originating user and the one or more other users are available to communicate with the recipient.

4. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the web post identifies a computing device used by at least one of the originating user or the one or more other users.

5. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the two or more techniques to electronically communicate are web-page based communication techniques.

6. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

obtaining, by a computing device, a plurality of web posts 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 posts, wherein a source of the presence data describing the online presence information comprises a presence service and a source of the plurality of web posts comprises another service different than the presence service;

outputting, by the computing device, the plurality of web posts 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 a recipient of the plurality of web posts via two or more techniques to electronically communicate, wherein at least a portion of the presence data 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;

identifying, based at least in part on a portion of the plurality of web posts, one or more other users included in a list of contacts of the recipient of the plurality of web posts; and

obtaining an online presence of the identified one or more other users included in the list of contacts of the recipient of the plurality of web posts.

7. A computer implemented method as described in claim 6, wherein the presence data describing the online presence information for the one or more originating users indicates, using text from a natural language, whether the one or more originating users are available to communicate with the recipient.

8. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 6, wherein the plurality of web posts identifies a computing device used by at least one of the one or more originating users or the one or more other users.

9. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 6, wherein the two or more techniques to electronically communicate are web-page based communication techniques.

10. A system comprising:

a processor; and

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

a web post describing content generated by an originating user published over a network;

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 of a recipient of the web post, the presence data corresponds to two or more particular communication techniques,

wherein;

a source of the presence data describing the online presence of the originating user comprises a presence service and a source of the web post comprises another service different than the presence service; and

the presence data and the web post are displayed concurrently to indicate whether the originating user and the one or more other users are available to communicate with the recipient of the web post and to identify how the originating user and the one or more other users are available;

the presence data is incorporated within the content generated by the originating user, the one or more other users having been previously identified based at least in part on the web post; and

one or more portions are selectable to initiate communication with the originating user and the one or more other users via the two or more particular communication techniques.

11. The system as described in claim 10, wherein the presence data describing the online presence of the originating user and the online presence of the one or more other users indicates, using text from a natural language, whether the originating user and the one or more other users are available to communicate with the recipient.

12. The system as described in claim 10, wherein the web post identifies a computing device used by at least one of the originating user or the one or more other users.

13. The system as described in claim 10, wherein the two or more particular communication techniques are web-page based communication techniques.