METHOD FOR MANAGING PRESENCE SERVICES IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH HETEROGENEOUS PRESENCE PROTOCOLS

There is provided a method of managing presence services in a communication system (1) including a plurality of communication subsystems (2, 3, 4, 5) each supporting a presence service operating according to a respective local presence protocol, in order to obtain interoperability among the differen...

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Main Authors BLAIOTTA, Donatella, DE ZEN, Giovanna, BOSSOLI, Francesca, LIPKA, Michael
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 24.05.2017
Subjects
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Summary:There is provided a method of managing presence services in a communication system (1) including a plurality of communication subsystems (2, 3, 4, 5) each supporting a presence service operating according to a respective local presence protocol, in order to obtain interoperability among the different subsystems. This is obtained by converting (22a, 32, 42, 52) the presence messages generated at an originating subsystem from the local protocol to a common, interoperability protocol and, for messages including presence documents, by converting the data strings contained in the document from a local, protocol-specific format to an interoperability format. Before being passed to a destination subsystem, the messages and the presence documents are converted (22b, 32, 42, 52) into the local presence protocol and format of that subsystem. The invention provides also a communication system (1) implementing the method.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20040763081