Microsoft Corporation
CONTEXTUALLY-BASED PRESENCE STATUS

Abstract:

A system and method perform contextually-based presence status management. A presence monitoring agent determines a first context in which a computing device is being used by a user, and the user may use a communication client to establish a first status for the user's user account. The communication client is configured to receive events or notifications from other communication clients or devices, and present a plurality of response options to the user. The user may then change the user account status to a second status by selecting a response option. The presence monitoring agent then monitors for changes in the context in the operating system to determine whether the user account status should be changed back to the first status.