SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE AVAILABILITY SIGNALING

摘要

A system and method for receiving and storing telephone status data (busy, off, free) of a contact, and transmitting such data over a data network to telephones that include such contact on contact list. An indication of the status of the contact may appear in association with the contact's other data on the contact list so that a user of the telephone storing the contact can determine if the contact is available without dialing the contact.

主权项

1. A method for providing availability status data for a plurality of identified mobile cellular telephone devices represented on a contact list, said contact list stored on a first mobile cellular telephone device, the method comprising:
storing on a remote memory, an association of said first mobile cellular telephone device with at least one of said plurality of identified mobile cellular telephone devices represented on said contact list; transmitting, over a data network, from said remote memory to said first mobile cellular telephone device, an availability status for said at least one of said plurality of identified mobile cellular telephone devices included on said contact list; and displaying an indication of said availability status in association with a representation on said contact list of said at least one of said plurality of identified mobile cellular telephone devices.