METHOD AND APPARATUS UTILIZING A PRESENCE SERVICE FOR PROVIDING STATUS INFORMATION AND METHOD AND APPARATUS UTILIZING A PRESENCE FOR GENERATING CONTENT STATUS INFORMATION

摘要

A contents status information providing method and an apparatus thereof using a presence service, and contents status information generating method and an apparatus thereof using a presence service are provided to generate information about usage detail of contents using status information. A additional data insertion part(210) inserts predetermined supplementary data into the status information about a second user which a first user terminal(230) requests. A transmit unit(220) transmits status information about a second user in which supplementary data are inserted in the first user terminal. A state information receiving part receives the status information about the second user which the first user terminal requests from the second user terminal(200). Supplementary data are the address information in which transmitted data are stored in the first user terminal. The status information about the second user is PIDF(Presence Information Data Format) data of RFC(Request For Comments) 2778 standard. A first user terminal is a watcher of the presence model according to the RFC 2778 standard. The second user is the presentity of the presence model according to the RFC 2778 standard.