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AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsJohn Michael Walker, Jorge Hernandez Vazquez, Zdravko Jukic
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Data related to a subscriber in a communications network is to be retrieved. A first Generic User Profile (GUP) server receives an incoming request for the subscriber related data from a data consumer in a first communication domain and determines that the data is located in a second communication domain. An outgoing request for the data is then transmitted to a second GUP server in the second communication domain via an interface. The second GUP server then retrieves the requested subscriber related data from a network repository and transmits the requested data to the first GUP server, which forwards the requested data to the data consumer. Service access to subscriber data located in other domains than the GUP Server is enabled, for example when the subscriber is roaming. The subscriber related data can also be distributed in both the first and second communication domain.
A method for retrieving data related to a subscriber, the method being performed in a communications network (100) comprising in a first GUP server performing the steps of:
A method according to any of the preceding claims wherein the step of determining (220) further comprises determining that the requested user data is nomadic (1020).
A method according to any of the preceding claims wherein before the step of transmitting an outgoing request to the second GUP server performing the further steps of:
A method according to any of the preceding claims wherein the step of transmitting an outgoing request to the second GUP server includes sending a roaming status indicator for indicating whether the end-user whose data is being queried is roaming.
A method according to any of the preceding claims wherein the step of transmitting and outgoing request to the second GUP server is performed over a 3GPP GUP Rg (103) or a 3GPP GUP Rp (105) or an interworking interface Ri (111).
A method according to any of the preceding claims wherein the subscriber is roaming in a first or second network.
A method according to any of the preceding claims wherein the subscriber is a subscriber of another communications network than that of the HGUP.
A method for retrieving data related to a subscriber in a communications network (100) comprising in a second GUP server in a second domain (109) performing the steps of:
A Home GUP server (104) for retrieving data related to a subscriber comprising a processor (503) and a memory (504) having instructions accessible from said memory and processable by said processor characterized by:
A Home GUP server according to claim 19-23 characterized in that the inter domain proxy function comprises a repository (610) for parameter storage and an address lookup function (630) to map a domain identity parameter to a valid remote GUP address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.