Patent ID: 8335860

Claim:
A method comprising facilitating a processing of and/or processing (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal, the (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal based, at least in part, on the following: a request from an application client for presence information, wherein said request is received at an intermediary element in a communication path between an application server and an application client, said presence information comprising notification of one or more events occurring at the application server or known to the application server, and said request comprises one or more filtering rules; removal of the one or more filtering rules at the intermediary element; at least one determination to forward the request to the application server without the one or more filtering rules; upon receiving, at the intermediary element, a response from the application server, application of the one or more filtering rules to the response; and at least one determination to forward the filtered response to the application client.