Patent ID: 8990381
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing common and application specific presence information, the method comprising: receiving, by a presence server, a publication message comprising presence information from a presentity; partitioning, by the presence server, the presence information into common presence information and application specific presence information, wherein common presence information is presence information shared among a plurality of applications and application specific presence information is presence information specific to particular application; storing, by the presence server, the common presence information in a common presence information database, wherein authorization for access to the common presence information database is controlled by the presence server; and forwarding, by the presence server, the application specific presence information to a database external to the presence server; and controlling, by the external database, storage of the application specification presence information and authorization for access to the application specific presence information; wherein receiving the publication message comprises receiving a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) PUBLISH message that includes the presence information.