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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2003
Andrew Mason, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William J. Beyda, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rami Caspi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Mason, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William J. Beyda, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rami Caspi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc., Boca Raton, FL (US);
Abstract
A telecommunications system includes a plurality of electronic messaging clients (); at least one messaging server () having an e-mail presence activation module () adapted to receive an e-mail and determine therefrom whether a presence of a recipient is to be determined, and a presence module () responsive to controls from the e-mail presence activation module and adapted to determine a presence of a recipient of said e-mail prior to sending the e-mail to the recipient. In one embodiment, the e-mail presence activation module () is adapted to read a priority level of the e-mail message to determine whether to check a presence of the recipient.