Patent ID: 8903789
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, first event information about a vehicle, wherein the first event information indicates a speed of the vehicle; receiving, at the computing device, second event information about a mobile communication device that is free to move independently from the vehicle, wherein the second event information indicates whether the mobile communication device is busy or available; receiving, at the computing device and based on information in an entity association table, an indication that the vehicle and the mobile communication device are associated with a user of the vehicle and the mobile communication device; deriving, at the computing device, presence event information based on the received first event information and the received second event information, wherein the derived presence event information indicates whether a user of the mobile communication device is available or not available for a telephonic call based on the first event information, including the indication of the speed of the vehicle, and the second event information, and wherein the derived presence event information indicates that the user of the mobile communication device is available when the vehicle is stopped and when the mobile communication device is available; receiving, via a browser or an application associated with the computing device and from a user of another communication device, an instruction for the mobile communication device to initiate a telephonic call to the other communication device when the user of the mobile device is available for the telephonic call; storing the instruction in an event trigger database; and automatically initiating the telephonic call between the mobile communication device and the other communication device in response to the instruction and based on comparing the derived presence event information to conditions in the event trigger database, wherein the conditions include the derived presence information changing from indicating that the user of the mobile communication device is not available for the telephonic call to indicating that the user of the mobile communication device is available for the telephonic call.