Presence and Presence-enabled Applications and Services


Published: Jun 2011
Presence or the ability to determine what network, device, service provider, and/or location and individual or object is attached. Presence is therefore a key solution for many advanced community of interest based applications as well as those that enable the end-user to personalize services to find them for enabling communications, content, and/or commerce exchanges.

Table of Contents: 

Presence for Telecom Applications

This publication answers all the key questions including:

What is "presence"?
How is "availability"? related to preference?
How is presence information obtained?
How is presence information managed?
What are the preference and privacy issues?
What are the key vendors for presence middleware?
What are the consuming applications for presence?
How does presence fit within the IMS framework?
What are the presence standards and standards bodies?

Presence-enabled Phone Book
The Killer IMS Application

An "Active Phone Book" is one that is dynamically updated based on personalized preferences and presence of individuals that are linked to the user within a community of interest. This is one of the first true "killer" IMS applications.

Categories: 
Applications (general)
Infrastructure (general)
Location Based Services (LBS)
Next Generation Networks (NGN)

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