Patent ID: 8937909
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a system comprising a processor, a plurality of communication identifiers for an end user of a communication network; presenting, by the system, an offer of grades of service via a communication device of the end user; receiving, by the system, a selection of a grade of service from the communication device of the end user in response to the offer; retrieving, by the system, presence information from a presence server subscribed to by the end user; and updating, by the system, a database record associated with the end user to record the selection of the grade of service and the presence information, wherein each of the grades of service comprises a different subset of the communication identifiers, wherein a given grade of service corresponds to a number of communication identifiers for that grade of service, and wherein each of the communication identifiers corresponds to a different communication device comprising an end point in the communication network.