摘要 |
<p>A system and method for managing subscriber's presence, location and availability information across a network (PLAS). In one embodiment, if a third party application wants to send a particular subscriber a message, it first establishes an authenticated session with the PLAS (500) and sends a request to the PLAS (502). If the subscriber is present (506) and available (508), the PLAS notifies the requesting application (512) and the application sends the message to the subscriber (514).</p> |