SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PARTIAL PRESENCE NOTIFICATIONS

摘要

A system and method for communicating partial notifications relating to a presentity's presence information. The communication may be effected between presence servers (210) and terminals (202) coupled to the presence servers via a network (201). At least one presentity is identified (700) to which a terminal (202) has requested presence services. A presence document is created (702), where the presence document includes presence information corresponding to the presentity. The presence information is configured (704) as partial presence information comprising less than a total of the presence information available for the presentity. The presence document having the partial presence information is communicated (706) to the terminal requesting the presence information.