FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: presence system has communication terminals and a presence server which can cooperate to provide status notifications. A communication terminal may provide the server a store message to suspend transmission of status notifications to that communication terminal. The presence server may be arranged so that in response to a store message requesting storage of status notifications the transmission of status notifications from the server to that communication terminal is suspended. The presence system, communication terminal and/or the communication presence server may include hardware and/or computer code or software to provide the respective functions and operations.
EFFECT: reduced required bandwidth for a network connection.
15 cl, 1 dwg
