Patent ID: 7844055

Claim:
A method for transporting dynamic presence information over a wireless and wireline communications network, the method comprising: sending dynamic presence information related to user interaction with a client device and a presence configuration of said client device from said client device to a gateway using a SIP-like protocol, said SIP-like protocol based at least in part on the SIP protocol, said SIP-like protocol employing a transport protocol; and receiving dynamic presence information from said gateway using said SIP-like protocol, wherein said presence configuration defines information to be provided to the gateway, information of an event that is subscribed to, and one or more actions to be performed upon notification of the event occurrence, wherein said method further comprises: passing a measurement of said SIP-like protocol streaming rate and a current bandwidth measurement through a low pass filter; setting an exponent to a threshold value if said filtered streaming rate measurement is not greater than said filtered bandwidth value; and delaying based at least in part on the value 2 exponent and increasing said exponent if said filtered streaming rate measurement is greater than said filtered bandwidth value.