Microsoft Corporation
Multistate presence and responsiveness tracking and indication

Abstract:

Systems and methods are described, and one method includes receiving, from a network, data indicative of an object person's current presence status and current responsiveness status, and based at least in part on the data, displaying an indicator image that includes a first region and a second region according to a mutual spatial structure, and concurrently displaying the first region with a first state appearance and the second region with a second state appearance, the first state appearance indicative of the current presence status, and the second state appearance indicative of the current responsiveness status.