12 Unltfid States Patent 10 Patent No.: US 7 980 459 B2 9 9 Ohno et al. (45) Date of Patent: Jul. 19, 2011 (54) PRESENCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 1SW1e1<*_1Wfl<:iH11a m1 et a . PRESENCE MANAGEMENT 2003/0065788 Al 4/2003 Salomaki _ _ 2003/0104819 A1 6/2003 Knauerhase et al. (75) Inventors: Takashl Ohno, Kawasaki (JP); Jun 2004/0019912 A1 1/2004 Smack Kakuta’ Kawasaki (JP) FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (73) Assignee: Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki (JP) JP 2003-296525 10/2003 KR 2003-063421 7/2003 ( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of tl1is KR 2003'096373 _ 12/2003 patent is extended or adjusted under 35 (COHI111L1ed) U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. OTHER PUBLICATIONS (21) App1' NO‘: 12/656380 H. Schulzrinne et al. “RPIDS—Rich Presence Information Data For22 F1 d_ J 22 2010 mat for Presence Based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)”, ( ) 1 e ' an‘ ’ Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Draft, Feb. 18, 2003; Sec' l,2,5,6.l-6.l3,9. (65) Prior Publication Data Hons _ US 2010/0170943 A1 Jul 8 2010 (C°mm“ed) _ _ Primary Examiner — Seung Lee Related U's' Apphcatlon Data (74) Attorney Agent or Firm — Staas & Halsey LLP (62) Division of application No. 11/070,295, filed on Mar. 3, 2005, now Pat. N0. 7,677,436. (57) ABSTRACT _ _ _ _ _ A presence server stores a presence that is identified by pres(30) Forelgn APPl1¢at1°n Prlorlty Data ence IDs “a1” and “a2”, as the presence of a user “A”. User “A” can ass a card that the hold tl1rou h a card reader at a P Y g Mar. 30, ............................... .. of their ehQQSjng_ The Card reader reads in data from SE1). 28, 2004 (JP) ............................... .. 2004-281470 the card and transmits a renewal request tQ the presence server. The renewal request includes a renewer ID, an object (51) Int CL ID, category information and the presence. When the presG06F 1 7/00 (200601) ence server receives the renewal request, it specifies the pres(52) U.S. Cl. ................................. .. 235/375 ence ID “a1” Qf user “A” tQ he the presence that is tQ he (58) Field of Classification Search ................ .. 235/375, renewed, based on the category ir1formation, and moreover, 235/376; 705/1.1; 709/204 rewrites the presence of the presence ID “a1” to a presence See application file for complete search history. “meeting room A” that is included in the renewal request. Thus, the card reader can renew the presence designated by (56) Refefellees Cited the “category infonnation”. As for the presence that is
