Part 7
SIP and the Future of
Intelligent Communications
In This Part
ᮣ Increasing business applications’ productivity with presence
ᮣ Improving the ease and speed of multimodal communications
ᮣ Becoming smarter about prioritizing messages
ᮣ Roaming around with location-aware services
ᮣ Maintaining privacy
ᮣ Enabling new services
T
o write this part, we got out our crystal ball and polished
it up a bit, waved a cell phone over it, and chanted,
“Presence, Presence, Presence, PRESENCE!!” Then we just
typed what appeared . . .
Presence-Enabled Business
Applications
Combined with Web services and XML-based applications,
SIP will enable presence within business applications. Desktop
programs that have references to business contacts within
them will be enabled to show the presence of those contacts,
on the screen, within that application. You won’t need to
toggle to an IM client to view the presence of the contact.
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