METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERNETWORK RETRIEVAL OF USER-ASSOCIATED DATA Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC H04L12/46 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to mobile communication. Data associated with a user (A) in a communication network (100) must be retrieved, for which a first general user profile (GUP) server (104) receives an incoming request for obtaining the data associated with the user from a data consumer (102) in a first communication domain (101) and determines that the data are in a second communication domain (109). The outgoing request for obtaining data is then transmitted to a second GUP server (110) in a second communication domain through an interface (111). The second GUP server then retrieves the requested data associated with the user from the network repository (112) and transmits the requested data to the second GUP server which then relays the requested data to the data consumer. Service access to user data in domains other than the GUP server domain is activated, for example, when the user is in roaming. Data associated with the user can also be distributed both in the first and second communication domains.

EFFECT: secure access to user profile data stored in a domain other than the GUP server domain.

15 cl, 13 dwg