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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2015
Applicant:

Swisscom Ag, Bern, CH;

Inventor:

Tim Carr, Effretikon, CH;

Assignee:

Swisscom AG, , CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06K 9/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/043 (2013.01); G06F 17/278 (2013.01); G06K 9/18 (2013.01); G06K 9/46 (2013.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 67/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for obtaining and utilizing status information associated with persons and/or entities. Status information associated with a person or an entity may be determined based on information, associated with the person or the entity, in one or more applications and/or one or more databases. In this regard, an indication of the person or the entity may be detected in a frame (e.g., from a screen of a device), and the status information may comprise an indication of online or contact availability, via at least one of the one or more applications, associated with the indication of the person or the entity. In response to user input based on the status information, a communication session associated with one of said one or more applications may be imitated, to provide connectivity with the person or the entity.


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