System and method for e-mail presence confirmation
AssigneeSiemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsAndrew Mason, William J. Beyda, Rami Caspi
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Abstract
A telecommunications system includes a plurality of electronic messaging clients (122); at least one messaging server (104) having an e-mail presence activation module (114) adapted to receive an e-mail and determine therefrom whether a presence of a recipient is to be determined, and a presence module (215) responsive to controls from the e-mail presence activation module and adapted to determine a presence of a recipient of said e-mail prior to sending the e-mail to the recipient. In one embodiment, the e-mail presence activation module (114) is adapted to read a priority level of the e-mail message to determine whether to check a presence of the recipient.
Claims33
A telecommunications method, comprising:
- receiving an e-mail at a server;
- using an e-mail address of said e-mail to check a presence status of a recipient of an e-mail;
- sending a presence confirmation message to said recipient responsive to determining that said recipient is present;
- and
- delivering said e-mail to said recipient if a response to said presence confirmation message is received.
A telecommunications server, comprising:
- an e-mail presence activation module adapted to receive an e-mail and determine therefrom whether a presence of a recipient is to be determined;
- and
- a presence module responsive to controls from said e-mail presence activation module and adapted to determine a presence of a recipient of said e-mail prior to sending said e-mail to said recipient.
A telecommunications system, comprising:
- a plurality of electronic messaging clients;
- at least one messaging server, said at least one messaging server comprising:
- an e-mail presence activation module adapted to receive an e-mail and determine therefrom whether a presence of a recipient is to be determined;
- and
- a presence module responsive to controls from said e-mail presence activation module and adapted to determine a presence of a recipient of said e-mail prior to sending said e-mail to said recipient.
A telecommunications method, comprising:
- providing a plurality of electronic messaging clients;
- providing at least one messaging server, said at least one messaging server comprising:
- an e-mail presence activation module adapted to receive an e-mail and determine therefrom whether a presence of a recipient is to be determined;
- and
- a presence module responsive to controls from said e-mail presence activation module and adapted to determine a presence of a recipient of said e-mail prior to sending said e-mail to said recipient.
A telecommunications method for providing a server, comprising:
- providing an e-mail presence activation module adapted to receive an e-mail and determine therefrom whether a presence of a recipient is to be determined;
- and
- providing a presence module responsive to controls from said e-mail presence activation module and adapted to determine a presence of a recipient of said e-mail prior to sending said e-mail to said recipient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.