Method and system for operating identifier management
OwnerRainer Schatzmayr, Holger Weinhardtinventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system and a method for operating identifier management (AB 1, AB 2) in which at least one user subscriber number and a plurality of identifiers and/or pointers to identifiers can be stored, which identify the user within a communications service of a provider and which can be assigned to the subscriber number, an inquiry being made to the identifier management with transfer of the subscriber number as a parameter and the identifier management checking whether the subscriber number is assigned one identifier or several identifiers, and the identifier or identifiers being returned as a response when there is assignment.
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1-10. (canceled)
A method of operating identifier management in which at least one user subscriber number and a plurality of identifiers or pointers to identifiers can be stored that identify the user within a communications service of a provider and that can be assigned to the subscriber number, an inquiry being made to the identifier management with transfer of the subscriber number as a parameter and the identifier management checking whether the subscriber number is assigned one identifier or several identifiers, and the identifier or identifiers being to returned as a response when there is assignment, wherein the identifier management forwards the inquiry or the identifier transmitted for storage or the pointer transmitted for storage together with the subscriber number to a second identifier management when the subscriber number is not stored in the first identifier management, and that the second identifier management checks whether the subscriber number is stored in it and whether the subscriber number is assigned one or more identifiers, and the identifier or identifiers are returned as an answer when there is assignment.
A system for operating identifier management in which at least one user subscriber number and a plurality of identifiers or pointers to identifiers can be stored that identify the user within a communications service of a provider and that can be assigned to the subscriber number, the system comprising:
- a server for accepting inquires and sending answers;
- a database containing the subscriber number and the identifiers or pointers to identifiers and connected to the server;
- interfaces to several service providers via which the inquiries and answers are sent;
- an agent running on the server and set up to accept an inquiry with a subscriber number as the parameter, to interrogate the database whether the subscriber number is assigned one or more identifiers or one or more pointers, and to return the identifier or identifiers as an answer when there is assignment;
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- an interface to another identifier management.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.