Presence tracking and name space interconnection techniques
AssigneeAvaya Inc.
InventorAndrew Charles Zmolek
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a presence and availability system including: (a) an input (e.g., an interface) operable to receive an agent report from a context sensing agent in a host entity associated with a person, the agent report comprising presence information and the person having an address in an associated name space; (b) a tracking agent 154 operable to tag at least some of the presence information with at least one classification tag; and (c) a policy agent 158 operable to determine presence information to be provided to a requester based on the at least one classification tag.
Claims7
-43. (canceled)
A method for providing information regarding an inanimate object, the inanimate object having at least one of an address and identifier within one or more name spaces presented thereon, comprising:
- receiving the at least one of an address and identifier and a corresponding name space on the inanimate object;
- mapping at least part of the at least one of an address and identifier against a directory of associated addresses;
- identifying a contact address corresponding to the at least one of an address and identifier;
- and
- initiating a contact to the identified contact address.
-74. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.