Publication number US6 A1 Publication type Application Application number US 10/673,522 Publication date Mar 31, 2005 Filing date Sep 29, 2003 Priority date Sep 29, 2003 Publication number 10673522, 673522, US 20 A1, US 2005/071506 A1, US 6 A1, US 6A1, US A1, US A1, US-A1-6, US-A1-, US20A1, US2005/071506A1, US6 A1, US6A1, US A1, USA1 Inventors Original Assignee Export Citation,, (18), (29), (15), (4) External Links:. A person in a multi-media or multi-channel communications system may have or use multiple devices, such as a telephone, personal digital assistant (PDA), computer, etc. Thus, the person may be represented by or associated with the different types of devices. A second person may attempt to contact the first person via email, instant message communication, telephone call, etc. The ability of the second person to contact or communicate with the first person may be limited by the availability of the device(s) chosen by the second person and/or the availability of the first person.

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For example, if the first person currently is using his or her telephone, the second person may not be able to contact the first person via telephone. Download Do Filme Prova De Fogo Rmvb more. However, the first person may be able to contact the first person via an email message sent to the first person's computer. In addition, if the first person is on vacation or out of the office, the second person may not be able to reach the first person via a telephone or computer located at the first person's office, but may be able to reach the first person via cellular telephone. As another example, if the first person is “busy,” the second person might not be able to reach the first person at all, even if all of the devices associated with the first person are currently available. If the second person can determine the availability of the first person and/or the availability of one or more devices associated with the first person, the second person may be able to make better choices regarding how to communicate with the first person. In addition, the first person might want to change the status of availability of one or more devices associated with the first person and have such status be reflected in his or her availability. For example, if the first person establishes a “do not disturb” setting on his or her office phone, the first person may want a “do not disturb” availability to be associated with him or her as a person.

In addition, the first person might want to change his or her availability status and have such change reflected in his or her availability of one or more devices associated with the first person. For example, if the first person's status goes from “in the office” to “out of the office”, the first person may want his or her office phone to be indicated as “not-available” and the first's person's cellular phone to be indicated as “available”. Embodiments provide a system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code for allowing and enabling mapping of device oriented contexts to identity contexts and/or allowing mapping of identity oriented contexts to device oriented contexts. More specifically, embodiments provide a system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code for mapping an identity context for an identity to a device context for one or more devices associated with the identity and/or mapping a device context for one of the devices to an identity context for the identity. In some embodiments an identity may be or include an individual person or a group of people. An identity context for an identity could be a state of “in a meeting.” “on vacation,” “in the office,” “out of the office,” “roaming,” “offline,” “online,” “in transit,” “mobile,” etc. Thus, the identify context describes the implied availability of the identity.

An identity may have one or more devices associated with it. For example, a person may have an associated office telephone, a home telephone, a cellular telephone, computer, PDA, etc. Each device may have an associated device context. For example, the person's office telephone may be busy, set to “do not disturb,” automatic call forwarding, offline, etc. Context for a device may describe the work or non-work state, and/or the availability or non-availability state, that the device is in. According to some embodiments, a method may include receiving a request to make a change to new identity context for an identity; and mapping the new identity context to a device context for a device associated with the identity.