Telephonic communications – Special services – Service profile
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-29
2008-12-30
Addy, Thjuan K (Department: 2614)
Telephonic communications
Special services
Service profile
C379S201010, C379S201100, C709S213000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07471782
ABSTRACT:
A system is provided for pro-actively suggesting communication features to users, comprising a tuple space for facilitating collaboration among software agents, a plurality of device agents for controlling operation of associated communication devices for respective ones of the users, and a plurality of user agents representing a plurality of users, each of the user agents (i) facilitating creation, by a user desirous of communicating, of groups of users to be communicated with, (ii) poking tuples to the tuple space indicative of each user's availability for communication; (iii) peeking anti-tuples to the tuple space for eliciting communication availability of respective ones of the users in the groups of users to be communicated with and in response causing associated device agents to display via respective ones of the devices the aforementioned availability to the user desirous of communicating, and to effect communication between the user desirous of communicating and a selected one of the respective users who is indicated as being available for communication.
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Addy Thjuan K
Mitel Networks Corporation
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