System and method for predicting availability
AssigneeSiemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Beyda, Rami Caspi
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Abstract
A telecommunications system includes a network (202); a plurality of client devices (212) operably coupled to said network, said plurality of client devices adapted to select one or more of others of said plurality as contacts on a contact list (404); a presence server (204) coupled to said network and adapted to monitor presence status of selected ones of said others, wherein said presence server maintains one or more records of past presence data for said selected ones; a calendar server (1304) adapted to maintain a calendar for selected ones of said plurality; and a scheduler (1306) adapted to receive said one or more records and said calendar and determine a likely presence status at a predetermined time.
Claims15
A telecommunications system, comprising:
- a network;
- a plurality of client devices operably coupled to said network, said plurality of client devices adapted to select one or more of others of said plurality as contacts on a contact list;
- a presence server coupled to said network and adapted to monitor presence status of selected ones of said others, wherein said presence server maintains one or more records of past presence data for said selected ones;
- a calendar server adapted to maintain a calendar for selected ones of said plurality;
- and
- a scheduler adapted to receive said one or more records and said calendar and determine a likely presence status at a predetermined time.
A telecommunications system, comprising:
- a network;
- a plurality of client devices operably coupled to said network, said plurality of client devices adapted to select one or more of others of said plurality as contacts on a contact list;
- a presence server coupled to said network and adapted to monitor presence status of selected ones of said others, wherein said presence server maintains one or more records of past presence data for said selected ones;
- and
- means for predicting an availability of one or more of said plurality based on said one or more records.
A telecommunications method, comprising:
- maintaining a list of users whose presence is monitored;
- maintaining a record of past presence status of said user;
- and
- predicting a future presence status of said user based on said record.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.