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Kitty L Leung

Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri

Keiji Kanazawa

George Joy

Alexandra K Heron

Jithendra K Veeramachaneni

Vlad Cretu

Henry Setiawan

Darren H Louie

Diego E Rejtman

Muneer Mirza

Nicolas Duchastel De Montrouge

Shreedhar Madhavapeddi

Nishant Dani

Stephen R Gordon

Ramesh Manne

Lan Tang

Chris G Parker

Ben D Garrison

Alexey Kalinichenko

Erik L DeBonte

Mark A Gere

Functionality is described for collecting data from a presence-based system, such as an instant messaging system. The functionality can extract information from the collected data based on one or more rules. For instance, the functionality can identify presence data and/or message data that includes predetermined key words. The functionality can formulate result information based on the extracted information for presentation to a recipient.

Processing data obtained from a presence-based system

An approach is described for maintaining multiple presence objects associated with a single entity. The different presence objects correspond to different respective aspects of the entity's presence. Each presence object includes subscriber information and permission information associated therewith. The subscriber information identifies the subscribers that subscribe to receive notifications for a particular presence object. The permission information identifies the users who are entitled to receive notifications for the particular presence object. By virtue of the use of multiple objects, the entity can control access to its presence information with a high degree of granularity.

Providing access to presence information using multiple presence objects

Functionality is described for collecting data from a presence-based system, such as an instant messaging system. The functionality can extract information from the collected data based on one or more rules. For instance, the functionality can identify presence data and/or message data that includes predetermined key words. The functionality can formulate result information based on the extracted information for presentation to a recipient. Based on these operations, the collected data supports a data-mining operation, as well as the traditional role of facilitating communication among the participants of the presence-based system. The result information can correspond to a report that presents aggregated findings, optionally organized into one or more demographic categories, or the result information can correspond to an advertisement, etc.

Instant messaging with audio connection formation is described. In an implementation, a method includes forming a communication to authenticate a client with a proxy during an instant messaging session and forming an invitation by the client for communication to the proxy that identifies another client, with which, to communicate via an audio connection. An acceptance is received from the other client via the proxy to form the audio connection.

Instant messaging with audio connection formation

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