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Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014

Filed:

Aug. 22, 2005
Applicants:

Reza Behforooz, Seattle, WA (US);

Gary Steven Burd, Kirkland, WA (US);

David Bau, Gladwyne, PA (US);

Jonathan David Perlow, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Reza Behforooz, Seattle, WA (US);

Gary Steven Burd, Kirkland, WA (US);

David Bau, Gladwyne, PA (US);

Jonathan David Perlow, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
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.


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