FIELD: radio engineering, communication.
SUBSTANCE: processor enables to receive a data request to perform an action on data in an attribute of a first entry at a first location in the directory provided by the requesting entity, wherein data for the attribute requested in the data request resides in a differently identified attribute in a second entry at a second location in the directory; identify one or more applied rules from a set of rules associated with the first entry; deriving the second location in the directory for the data in the attribute of the data request using the applied rules, wherein the derivation is performed at an access point of a data storage mechanism for the directory; find the data in the attribute of the data request in the second entry using the derived second location; and perform the action on the data at the derived second location.
EFFECT: possibility of performing an action with attributes in a directory when the attributes are not presented in the form expected by legacy objects, for example, when data for the attribute are presented in a differently identified attribute.
