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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2003
Thomas Hanna, Detmold, DE;
Thorsten Laux, Lippstadt, DE;
Thomas Hanna, Detmold, DE;
Thorsten Laux, Lippstadt, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In order to monitor an application (AP, AP, AP) in a packet-switching network (NW), the state of the application (AP, AP, AP) is recorded by means of a monitoring instant (MC) and is transmitted to a Presence Application (PA) which displays and/or further processes the state. For this purpose, the application (AP, AP, AP) is registered by means of the monitoring instant (MC) as a first communication partner in a list of communication partners which can be accessed in the network, and the Presence Application (PA) is registered in the list as a second communication partner which monitors the first communication partner. The state and/or state changes of the application (AP, AP, AP) is or are transmitted to the Presence Application (PA) as a characteristic which is associated with the first communication partner, or as a message which is transmitted from the first communication partner, with the monitoring being carried out on the basis of the characteristic or of the message.