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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2005
Reza Behforooz, Seattle, WA (US);
Gary Steven Burd, Kirkland, WA (US);
David Bau, Gladwyne, PA (US);
Jonathan David Perlow, Seattle, WA (US);
Reza Behforooz, Seattle, WA (US);
Gary Steven Burd, Kirkland, WA (US);
David Bau, Gladwyne, PA (US);
Jonathan David Perlow, Seattle, WA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Presence subscriptions for messaging services are managed by automatically subscribing contacts to a user's contact lists based one or more rules, subscription states and contact types. In some embodiments, presence subscriptions are managed by: identifying a set of contacts with respect to an identified user; applying subscription rules to the contacts; selecting a subset of contacts based on one or more subscription rules; and automatically establishing presence subscriptions for the subset of contacts.