Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Jerald C Fisher

Karen Ellen Thayer

Jeffrey Joel Walls

A system and method for providing non-blocking communication with a communications server are disclosed herein. A computer system includes one or more processors and a software system executable by the processor. When executed, the software system provides an application thread and additionally provides a server communication thread configured to provide non-blocking communication between the application thread and a communication server. The server communication thread is configured to process commands based on requests for communication server services generated by the application thread. The server communication thread is further configured to communicate with the communication server based on the commands and to block pending a server response. The application thread is configured to execute unimpeded by the communication.

Non-blocking communication between an application and a server

A system and method for providing application specific presence information are disclosed here. A system includes one or more processors, a first communication program executable by the one or more processors, and a second communication program executable the one or more processors. When executed, the first and second communication programs respectively provide a first mode and a second mode of user communication. The second communication program causes the one or more processors to provide user presence information to a communication server. The presence information includes a presence status provided by the first communication program and a separate presence status provided by the second communication program. The separate presence status provided by the second communication program is configured to avoid aggregation, by the communication server, with any other presence status.

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