SYSTEM AND ARCHITECTURE FOR THE HANDLING OF SHARED AND PERSONAL PREFERENCES IN CALL PROCESSING AND PRESENCE FOR IP TELEPHONY AND COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS

摘要

A system for resolving conflicts between personal and shared space policies,comprisinga location manager for monitoring location of users, each of the users beingrepresented by auser agent for receiving session requests in accordance with user specifiedpersonal policies, acommon proxy for receiving location data for the users from the locationmanager and inresponse creating a list of users at each location, and a space proxyassociated with an ownerof each location for enforcing space policies specified by the owner such thatupon receipt of asession request with a user specified personal policy that conflicts with oneof the space policiesthen rejecting the session request.