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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2013
Orange, Paris, FR;
Emmanuel Le Huerou, Saint Quay Perros, FR;
Francois Toutain, Louannec, FR;
Richard Salin, Meylan, FR;
ORANGE, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A method of communicating a presence state for a group of users having user terminals relating to their presence in a virtual communication space provided by a communication server on a communication network. The virtual space provides a plurality of distinct communication modes referred to as 'activities' that can be shared by all of the users of said group. The method includes associating each activity of the virtual space with a graphics icon representing the activity, the icon being for displaying via a graphics interface implemented by any activity sharing client application that is installed in each user terminal. A presence state is determined for each user of the group. For each of the activities, a graphical representation for the associated icon is determined as a function of the presence state for the users relative to the activity, enabling visual identification of user(s) participating in the activity.