AIM Phoneline Innovators Forum

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AIM Phoneline Innovators Forum

• Alex Quilici, Vice President, AIM Phoneline
• Greg Cypes, Sr. Software Engineer, IM Core
  Infrastructure
• David Trueman, Senior Technical Director, AOL
  Voice Products Development

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FREE AIM Phoneline

• Local phone number
• Always-on voicemail to AOL/AIM e-mail address
• SMS alerts as MWI
• Unlimited inbound calls
• Community-based call feedback
• Basic web dashboard (call logs, settings)
• One-step activation (aimphoneline.com)

Stop giving out your home cell to people you
dont know well.
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Unlimited AIM Phoneline - 9.95 Month

• Adds
• Outbound Calls to U.S./Canada and 30 Countries
• Privacy pack around call screening/blocking.
• Address book integration
• e911

• Target audiences heavy international callers
  need for additional full-fledged phone line

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The Future

• A very large free AIM Phoneline user base every
  AOL/AIM user gets a phone number.
• Make our application as compelling as possible.
• The features users want.
• A set of parallel, compelling extensions to the
  AIM Phoneline experience, the vast majority
  developed outside of AOL.
• Need developer feedback.

• Were sponsoring a developer contest.
• Leverage Open AIM to build the coolest
  application.
• Details to come, but theres a real prize.
• Some cool examples/ideas weve heard
• Record a call.
• Any number becomes click-to-dial.
• Any existing Skype-device works with AIM
  Phoneline
• Caller-id on steroids.

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Open AIM APIs

• Core AIM technology library, supports all AIM
  functionality
• High-level COM API
• Platform Support
• Windows
• Mac OS X
• Linux
• Windows Mobile
• Uses proven third-party technology
• NSS (Mozilla) for security
• sipXtapi (Pingtel) or RTC (Microsoft) for
  audio/video
• Used by AIM Triton
• Usable by Java via Java wrapper

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AIM Triton Plugins

• Code that is loaded inside the AIM application
  when it signs onto the AIM service
• In-proc COM objects, can be written using
  standard tools in any language that supports COM
• Full AIMCC API exposed to plugins in general,
  anything AIM can do, a plugin can do
• AIMCC responsible for loading plugins, so plugins
  can function in any AIMCC-based application
• Can interact with the host application UI e.g.
  adding commands to AIM Tritons Actions menu

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AIM Plugin API

• Plugins primarily interact with 4 main
  interfaces
• IAccPlugin implemented by plugin to allow for
  initialization and shutdown
• IAccSession called by plugin to perform AIM
  operations (e.g. create A/V conversation)
• DAccEvents desired event handlers implemented
  by plugins (e.g. when an A/V session is
  initiated.)
• IAccCommandTarget optional implemented by
  plugin to receive commands from AIM UI

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AIM Custom Clients

• Standalone AIM applications built on top of the
  Open AIM APIs
• Allows for creation of specialized clients
• Automatic support for AIM plugins

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AIM Location Services

• Currently a plugin for Triton and Open AIM
  clients
• Opt-In plugin shares location info with users on
  your buddy list
• Integrated with Mapquests API to plot buddies on
  the map
• First plugin that uses the Boxely engine to
  render UI

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AIM Location Services

• Download the plugin
• http//www.aim.com

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Demos
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Getting started

• Official site - http//developer.aim.com to get
  keys and download the SDK
• Read the Quickstart guide
• Look at the plugin tutorials
• Look at the sample code
• Look at the interface docs
• Let us know what obstacles you ran into

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Contact info

• AIM Developer main page
• http//developer.aim.com
• http//developer.aol.com
• Gregs blog and email
• http//members.aol.com/gbcypes
• gbcypes_at_aol.com

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Open AIM Phoneline Interfaces

• Initially three main interfaces
• Device integration (covered separately)
• Call Control
• Ringback Tones
• What would you like to see next? (QA)

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Message Flow - Playing Tone to the Caller
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Message Flow - Call Control do not disturb
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Additional Interfaces

• Screen Name Service (SNS) authentication of end
  user
• Provisioning sent to AOL to add or cancel
  end-user for third party service
• Cancellation AOL sends to notify third party of
  cancellation of base service (AIM Phoneline)