Patent ID: 8396965
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving preferences of one or more users, wherein the preferences comprise types of user activities that are performed by the one or more users on one or more participating ecosystem sites that are authorized to be publicized to other participating ecosystem sites in a same participant ecosystem; receiving preferences of each of the one or more participating ecosystem sites, wherein the preferences comprise the types of user activities that each of the one or more participating ecosystem sites are interested in being notified of and predetermined conditions or a set of predetermined conditions relating to the user activities that must be met prior to sending a notification of the user activity to the one or more participating ecosystem sites; a presence manager server receiving a notification of user activity of the one or more users taking place on the one or more participating ecosystem sites in the participant ecosystem; processing the user activity of the one or more users based on the preferences of the one or more users and the one or more participating ecosystem sites, wherein the processing comprises: sending the notification of the user activity of the one or more users from the presence manager server to the at least one of the one or more participating ecosystem sites that has the preference to be notified about the user activity to enable the at least one of the one or more participating ecosystem sites to communicate information about the user activity to one or more users on the at least one of the one or more participating ecosystem sites, wherein the presence manager server receiving the notification of the user activity of the one or more users comprises the presence manager server attaining a comprehensive awareness of the one or more users on the one or more participating ecosystem sites by determining a status and availability of the one or more users on the one or more participating ecosystem sites.