Method and apparatus for automatically determining a presence status
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Copany, L.P.
InventorsPhilippe Weczorek, Lionel Kyrfakides
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Abstract
According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided apparatus, for use with a computing device, for selecting a presence status from a number of available presence statuses comprising: a data store for storing at least one predeterminable rule; an activity monitor for monitoring an activity through the device; and logic for determining the presence status based in part on the at least one rule and in part on the monitored activity.
Claims21
Apparatus, for use with a computing device, for selecting a presence status from a number of available presence statuses comprising:
- a data store for storing at least one predeterminable rule;
- an activity monitor for monitoring an activity through the device;
- and
- logic for determining the presence status based in part on the at least one rule and in part on the monitored activity.
A method, for use with a computing device, for selecting a presence status, from a number of available presence statuses comprising:
- monitoring an activity through the device;
- and
- determining a presence status based in part on the monitored activity and in part on at least one predeterminable rule.
A presence broking system for managing presence information received from two or more devices associated with a single user comprising:
- a storage device for storing at least one predeterminable rule;
- and means for publishing a presence status to a presence server based on the received presence information and the at least one predeterminable rules.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.