ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,097, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for updating a presence status of a user of a communication terminal for a set of communication applications" was invented by Anne Benrikhi (Chatillon, France) and Romain Carbou (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Updating a presence status of a user of a communication terminal for a set of at least one communication application. The terminal is connected to a communication network via a network interface. The method includes: detecting in the terminal a functional event a consequence of which is a future deactivation of the network inte...