摘要 |
<p>A presence system (100) provides custom presence icons (270) customizable by presentities (110) to watchers (170) of the presentities (110). The presence system includes a presence server (160) for receiving icon information (210) from a presentity (110), in which the icon information (210) defines one or more custom presence icons (270) associated with the presentity (110). The presence server (160) also receives a different watcher view rule for each of the custom presence icons (270) from the presentity (110). For example, the watcher view rule can be a watcher identity to provide different custom presence icons (270) to different watchers (170) or a presence state (410) of the presentity (110) to provide different custom presence icons (270) for different presence states (410) of the presentity (110). The presence server (160) provides the icon information (210) to the watchers (170) of the presentity (110) in accordance with the watcher view rules.</p> |