Patent ID: 8566954
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of authorising provision of in-directed content to a user of an IP communications network, said in-directed content being associated with a presentity subscriber of a presence service, the presence service including authorisation rules regarding users to which the in-directed content may be provided, and wherein the in-directed content is stored at a content server that is not controlled by the presence service, the method comprising: receiving, at an authorisation proxy in the network, a request from the user to be provided with the in-directed content, wherein identifying the presentity subscriber associated with the requested in-directed content; the authorisation proxy retrieving the authorisation rules to verify that the user is authorised to receive the in-directed content; subject to the verification, enabling the in-directed content to be provided from the content server the user; and receiving at a presence server in the network, a notification that the in-directed content is available, the notification including an indication of a location from which the in-directed content can be retrieved, the presence server checking the authorisation rules and forwarding the notification to users authorised to receive the in-directed content.