Multistate presence and responsiveness tracking and indication
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorEdwin James GALE
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described, and one method includes receiving, from a network, data indicative of an object person's current presence status and current responsiveness status, and based at least in part on the data, displaying an indicator image that includes a first region and a second region according to a mutual spatial structure, and concurrently displaying the first region with a first state appearance and the second region with a second state appearance, the first state appearance indicative of the current presence status, and the second state appearance indicative of the current responsiveness status.
Claims20
A server system for providing client display of a presence and responsiveness, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- receive from a network, via a network interface coupled to the system, data indicative of a current presence status, data indicative of a current responsiveness status, and an information associating an object person identifier with the current presence status and current responsiveness status, the presence status being a status of physical location relative to a given reference, and the responsiveness status being a status of responsiveness relative to a given group of communication resources,
- determine the current presence status of the object person, based at least in part on the data indicative of the current presence status,
- determine the current responsiveness status of the object person, based at least in part on the data indicative of the current responsiveness status,
- generate an image data, for display on a client display, the image data defining an indicator image that includes a first region and a second region configured in a mutual spatial structure, the first region having a first state appearance and the second region having a second state appearance, the first state appearance indicating the object person's determined current presence status, and the second state appearance indicating the object person's determined current responsiveness status, and
- send the image data to the client.
A method for providing client display of a presence and responsiveness, comprising:
- receiving from a network, via a network interface coupled to the system, data indicative of a current presence status, data indicative of a current responsiveness status, and an information associating an object person identifier with the current presence status and current responsiveness status, the presence status being a status of physical location relative to a given reference, and the responsiveness status being a status of responsiveness relative to a given group of communication resources;
- determining the current presence status of the object person, based at least in part on the data indicative of the current presence status;
- determining the current responsiveness status of the object person, based at least in part on the data indicative of the current responsiveness status;
- generating an image data, for display on a client display, the image data defining an indicator image that includes a first region and a second region in a mutual spatial structure, the first region having a first state appearance and the second region having a second state appearance, the first state appearance indicating the object person's determined current presence status, and the second state appearance indicating the object person's determined current responsiveness status;
- and
- sending the image data to the client.
A non-transitory computer readable medium on which are stored instructions that, when executed, cause a programmable device to:
- receive from a network a data indicative of a current presence status, data indicative of a current responsiveness status, and an information associating an object person identifier with the current presence status and current responsiveness status, the presence status being a status of physical location relative to a given reference, and the responsiveness status being a status of responsiveness relative to a given group of communication resources;
- and
- based at least in part on said data, display, on a display, an indicator image that includes a first region and a second region according to a mutual spatial structure, and concurrently display the first region with a first state appearance and the second region with a second state appearance, the first state appearance indicating the current presence status, and the second state appearance indicating the current responsiveness status.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.