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- noun Internet, telecommunications An
entity (usually a human) which provides presence information (who may be available and willing to communicate through communication services). For example, users of aninstant messaging service (such asICQ orMSN Messenger ) are considered presentities. Presentities can have astatus of being present,online ,available ,offline , oraway . - noun Internet, telecommunications A group of humans, for example a collection of
customer service agents in acall center that may be present. This presentity may be considered available if there is at least one agent ready to accept a call.
Etymologies
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The word is a combination of words presence and entity and was first introduced in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETC) RFC 2778.
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