Techniques to manage presence information

• US 10,079,900 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2008
• Issued: 09/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Bouchard, Thomas, Shtiegman, Eran, Parameswar, Sriram
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Zarni
• Application Number:
  US12/127,010
• Publication Number:
  US 20090300095A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,766 Days
• Field of Search: 709204, 705 8
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/613 for the control of the source by the destination control signals issued by the client directed to the server or network components specially adapted for selective content distribution H04N21/637
• 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

Techniques to manage presence information are described. An apparatus may comprise a presence management component operative to manage presence information for a presentity node. The presence management component may comprise a presence normalization module operative to retrieve presence temporal information for a home time zone, and normalize the presence temporal information for a local time zone of the presentity node to form normalized presence temporal information. The presence management component may further comprise a presence control module communicatively coupled to the presence normalization module. The presence control module may be operative to send presence state information from the presentity node to a presence server based on the normalized presence temporal information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

retrieving, by a presence management component executing on a processor in a presentity node, presence temporal information for a home time zone from an application program separate from the presence management component, the presence temporal information corresponding to time segments in at least three priority levels;

normalizing presence business temporal information and presence personal temporal information for the local time zone to form normalized presence business temporal information and normalized presence personal temporal information, the presence business temporal information representing business hours when a user is available for business matters in the home time zone, and the presence personal temporal information representing personal hours when a user is available for personal matters in the home time zone;

at least one of sending presence available state information from the presentity node to the presence server when a current date and time match the normalized presence business temporal information or match the normalized presence personal temporal information or sending presence unavailable state information from the presentity node to the presence server when the current date and time does not match the normalized presence business temporal information or match the normalized presence personal temporal information; and

generating control directives for subsequent handling operations for an incoming communication request received by the presentity node, based on the presence available state information or the presence unavailable state information for the presentity node.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising retrieving different presentity alert profiles corresponding to different presence state information for the presentity node, each presentity alert profile comprising alert parameters for the presentity node.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising retrieving a presentity business alert profile when a current date and time for the presentity node match the normalized presence business temporal information, and a presentity personal alert profile when the current date and time match the normalized presence personal temporal information.

4. An article comprising a hardware containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:

retrieve, by a presence management component executing in a presentity node, presence temporal information for a first time zone from an application program separate from the presence management component, the presence temporal information including presence business temporal information, presence personal temporal information, and presence urgent temporal information;

normalize the presence temporal information for a second time zone of the presentity node to form normalized presence temporal information as the presentity node moves between different geographic locations,

send presence state information from the presentity node to a presence server based on the normalized presence temporal information, the presence state information comprising presence available state information or presence unavailable state information; and

generate control directives for subsequent handling operations for an incoming communication request received by the presentity node based on the presence state information for the presentity node.

5. The article of claim 4, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to retrieve the presence business temporal information representing business hours when a user is available for business matters in the first time zone, and presence personal temporal information representing personal hours when a user is available for personal matters in the first time zone.

6. The article of claim 5, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to normalize the presence business temporal information for the second time zone to form normalized presence business temporal information, and presence personal temporal information for the second time zone to form normalized presence personal temporal information.

7. The article of claim 6, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to send the presence available state information from the presentity node to the presence server when a current date and time match the normalized presence business temporal information, and the presence unavailable state information from the presentity node to the presence server when the current date and time does not match the normalized presence business temporal information.

8. The article of claim 4, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to retrieve different presentity alert profiles corresponding to different presence state information for the presentity node, each presentity alert profile comprising alert parameters for the presentity node.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

a presence management component operative to manage presence information for a presentity node, the presence management component comprising;

a presence normalization module operative to retrieve presence temporal information for a home time zone from an application program separate from the presence management component, the presence temporal information defining a time segment for urgent matters, and normalize the presence temporal information for a local time zone of the presentity node to form normalized presence temporal information as the presentity node moves into a geographic location away from the home time zone; and

a presence control module communicatively coupled to the presence normalization module, the presence control module operative to send presence state information from the presentity node to a presence server based on the normalized presence temporal information and to generate control directives for subsequent handling operations for an incoming communication request received by the presentity node based on the presence state information for the presentity node.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, the presence normalization module operative to retrieve presence business temporal information representing business hours when a user is available for business matters in the home time zone, and presence personal temporal information representing personal hours when a user is available for personal matters in the home time zone.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, the presence normalization module operative to normalize presence business temporal information for the local time zone to form normalized presence business temporal information, and presence personal temporal information for the local time zone to form normalized presence personal temporal information.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, the presence control module operative to send presence available state information from the presentity node to the presence server when a current date and time match the normalized presence business temporal information, and presence unavailable state information from the presentity node to the presence server when the current date and time does not match the normalized presence business temporal information.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, the presence control module operative to retrieve different presentity alert profiles corresponding to different presence state information for the presentity node, each presentity alert profile comprising alert parameters for the presentity node.