User profile management - integration with the universal communications identifier concept
Tatiana Kováčiková, Françoise Petersen, Mike Pluke, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo · International Conference on Communications · 2009
Industry and end users interest in personalization of services and user devices continues to increase. Users move between situations throughout the day (e.g. at home, driving, working). In each of these situations, users may have different needs for how they would like their ICT resources arranged. At present, an increasing number of products provide the user with ways of tailoring their preferences to these different situations. Users should be able to specify their context dependent needs in ways that require the minimum need to understand the individual products. In addition, personalization and user profile management holds the promise of improving the uptake of new technologies and allowing greater access to their benefits. The work on personalization and user profiles emerged from earlier ETSI work on a Universal Communications Identifier (UCI) which is a unique identifier of the user rather than a range of identifiers of the many of communication devices or services (e.g. numbers of fixed phone at home/work, mobile phones, fax and e-mail addresses). This paper describes work on the User Profile Management (UPM) including standardized information and preferences and an architectural framework providing a description of how the UPM architecture can be integrated with Next Generation Network (NGN), together with mapping to the UCI concept.