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Techniques for determining and communicating presence

  • US 9,763,090 B2
  • Filed: 03/13/2013
  • Issued: 09/12/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • a processor circuit;

    a hardware communications component; and

    a presence component operative on the processor circuit to determine whether a first user is present to receive a first short message service (SMS) message on a mobile device in response to a second user requesting a social networking web page containing profile information for the first user, wherein the first user and the second user have a defined relationship in a social networking service, and to perform periodic attempts to transmit partial SMS messages to the mobile device via the hardware communications component and to update a presence record for the first user based on the attempts to transmit, wherein the partial SMS messages are separate from the first SMS message and comprise a header comprising a command to request a response, and to delay the periodic attempts to transmit the partial SMS messages when the presence component determines that the first user has successfully transmitted or received a second SMS message using the mobile device; and

    a display component operative on the processor circuit to indicate to the second user whether the first user is present to receive the first SMS message on the mobile device.

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