Presence Engine Standardizing User Availability Across Applications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional communications applications, such as push-to-talk and instant messaging, face challenges in managing and standardizing user availability status across multiple platforms, leading to inconsistencies and inefficiencies in resource usage and user interface experiences.
Innovation Solution
A data processing apparatus with a presence engine that receives, generates, and manages availability status data, providing consistent representations across various application programs, and enables centralized storage and synchronization of user availability status, ensuring efficient use of resources and a unified user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If each application program manages availability status independently, then application-specific customization is improved, but system complexity and resource usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into a presence engine that manages availability status data and multiple application programs that consume this data. The presence engine separates the management of availability status from the application logic, allowing applications to independently utilize standardized presence information without duplicating management functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The presence engine acts as an intermediary between the availability status data source and multiple application programs. It receives availability status data, generates standardized representations, and makes them available to applications through a common interface, eliminating the need for each application to independently manage availability status.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple representations of availability status are generated for different applications, then application compatibility is improved, but processing overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The presence engine performs preliminary action by generating standardized representations of availability status data in advance, before applications need to consume it. This pre-processing ensures that when applications request availability status, the data is already in the required format, reducing real-time processing overhead.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameters of availability status data by transforming raw presence information into multiple standardized representations suitable for different application types. This parameter transformation allows a single source of truth to serve multiple applications with different requirements without duplicating the source data.
3Stability of the object's composition
If availability status data is stored centrally, then data consistency is improved, but access complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The presence engine provides universal access to availability status data through a standardized interface that serves multiple application programs. This universal interface simplifies access complexity by providing a common method for all applications to retrieve consistent presence information, regardless of the specific application type or requirements.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and a method are disclosed for a data processing apparatus (200) is described which comprises a plurality of application programs (206, 210) configured to utilize an availability status of a user; and a presence engine (208). The presence engine (208) is configured to receive data representative of the availability status of the user and generate one or more representations of the received availability status suitable for one or more of the plurality of application programs (206, 210). The one or more representations of the received availability status are made available to the corresponding one or more of the plurality of application programs (206, 210).