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Patent No.:

US 7770137 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2010

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2006
Applicants:

Stephen Kight Forbes, Raleigh, NC (US);

Kurt Schmidt, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Inventors:

Stephen Kight Forbes, Raleigh, NC (US);

Kurt Schmidt, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products for enhancing presence services. Such methods may include associating, in a database, a custom icon associated with a third party and a region and communicating a user presence in the associated region by transmitting a custom icon to a subscriber. Such systems may include a presence server configured to determine and communicate, to a subscriber, presence information corresponding to a user mobile device and an icon server configured to associate and store presence information of a third party and a custom icon corresponding to the third party, to modify the custom icon responsive to received data indicative of opinion data corresponding to the third party, and to transmit the custom icon to the user mobile device and to the subscriber.

Published as:
US2008155476A1; WO2008079166A1; EP2098041A1; CN101573946A; US7770137B2; EP2098041B1;

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Forbes, Stephen. (2010). Methods, systems and computer program products for enhancing presence services (U.S. Patent No. 7770137). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7770137

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