Managing presence subscriptions for messaging services

摘要

Presence subscriptions for messaging services are managed by automatically subscribing contacts to a user's contact lists based one or more rules, subscription states and contact types. In some embodiments, presence subscriptions are managed by: identifying a set of contacts with respect to an identified user; applying subscription rules to the contacts; selecting a subset of contacts based on one or more subscription rules; and automatically establishing presence subscriptions for the subset of contacts.

主权项

1. A method of managing presence subscriptions for messaging services, comprising,
at a computer system having one or more processors and memory:
identifying a set of contacts with respect to an identified user;applying one or more subscription rules to the contacts;selecting a subset of the contacts based on the one or more subscription rules; andautomatically establishing a presence subscription for each contact in the subset of contacts, wherein a presence subscription for a respective contact enables displaying to the identified user an indication of the online status of the respective contact.