US 2006/0242235 A1 · Presence monitoring in a serverless peer-to-peer system

Abstract

Systems and methods are described for facilitiating collaboration and/or communication in a peer-to-peer serverless system. The system may transmit to other computing systems associated with other entities information regarding presence information associated with a user entity. Also, the system may request of other computing systems associated with other entities information regarding presence information associated with the other entities. Presence information may generally indicate the willingness and/or ability of an entity to communicate and/or collaborate with other entities, for example.

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Dependent claims

A method for facilitating peer-to-peer collaboration in a serverless system, the method comprising:

transmitting, using a peer computing system associated with a user entity, presence information regarding the user entity to peer computing systems associated with a first set of other entities, the first set of other entities indicated by contact information in a contact store stored on the peer computing system associated with the user entity;
and
transmitting, using the peer computing system associated with the user entity, requests for presence information associated with a second set of other entities indicated by contact information in the contact store, the requests being transmitted to peer computing systems associated with the second set of other entities indicated by contact information in the contact store;
wherein the first set of other entities is capable of being different than the second set of other entities.

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A method for facilitating peer-to-peer collaboration and/or collaboration in a serverless system using a peer computing system associated with a user entity, the method comprising:

establishing a connection with a peer computing system associated with an other entity;
receiving a request from the peer computing system associated with the other entity to monitor presence of the user entity;
determining an identifier of the other user entity;
determining whether the identifier is in a contact store of the computing system associated with a user entity;
if the identifier is in the contact store, determining if an indicator in the contact store associated with the identifier of the other user entity indicates the other user entity may monitor the presence of the user entity;
and
if the indicator associated with the identifier of the other user entity indicates the other user entity may monitor the presence of the user entity, transmitting, using the peer computing system associated with the user entity, presence information associated with the user entity to the peer computing system associated with the other entity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Presence monitoring in a serverless peer-to-peer system

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Abstract

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