Patent ID: 8417786
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing simplified presence for a user, the user having a plurality of associated communication devices and being registered with a communications server, each communication device enabling at least one communication service class, the communications server having a user data entry associating the user with each of the plurality of communication devices, the method comprising: defining a virtual device associated with the user; receiving, at the communications server, presence information from at least two of the plurality of communication devices; aggregating the received presence information, the aggregated presence information indicating the service classes available from the aggregated at least two communication devices based on the received presence information, wherein at least two of the communication devices have at least one service class in common; generating a virtual device presence document containing the part of the aggregated presence information indicating the service classes available and excluding details of the at least two communication devices, wherein the details of the at least two communication devices include the addresses of those devices; and providing the virtual device presence document to a presence server as presence information associated with the user.