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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
May. 14, 2010
Toshihiko Matsunaga, Osaka, JP;
Toshihiko Matsunaga, Osaka, JP;
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and a system for providing presence information is disclosed which can incorporate non-presence-ready terminal nodes such as sensor node terminals and combine a plurality of pieces of presence information from a plurality of nodes, thereby providing presence information with improved reliability. The method includes creating circumstance presence information associated with a user in response to a change in value of sensor data transmitted from at least one sensor node terminal. For a presence server to deliver presence information, the method also includes delivering circumstance presence information created in relation to the user either in place of the presence information or in combination with the presence information.