Pro-active features for telephony
US7035389B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 5, 2002 |
| Grant date | Apr 25, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 18, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
A system is provided for pro-actively suggesting communication features to users, comprising a tuple space for facilitating collaboration among software agents, a plurality of device agents for controlling operation of associated communication devices for respective ones of the users, and a plurality of user agents representing a plurality of users, each of the user agents (i) facilitating creation, by a user desirous of communicating, of groups of users to be communicated with, (ii) poking tuples to the tuple space indicative of each user's availability for communication; (iii) peeking anti-tuples to the tuple space for eliciting communication availability of respective ones of the users in the groups of users to be communicated with and in response causing associated device agents to display via respective ones of the devices the aforementioned availability to the user desirous of communicating, and to effect communication between the user desirous of communicating and a selected one of the respective users who is indicated as being available for communication.
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