Patent ID: 7571228
Filing Date: 2009-08-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing contact information for use in a peer-to-peer system, the method comprising: storing contact information in a contact store on one or more peer computing systems associated with a user entity, the contact store including a plurality of data structures wherein each data structure of the plurality of data structures corresponds to a different other entity of a plurality of other entities, and wherein the content information in the each data structure includes: modifying the content information in the contact store to indicate a first set of the plurality of other entities to which presence information of the user entity is to be transmitted by the one or more peer computing systems associated with the user entity to peer computing systems associated with the first set of the plurality of other entities; and modifying the content information in the contact store to indicate a second set of the plurality of other entities to which presence information of the second set of the plurality of other entities is to be received by the one or more peer computing systems associated with the user entity from peer computing systems associated with the second set of the plurality of other entities; wherein the first set of the plurality of other entities is capable of being different than the second set of the plurality of other entities.