Patent ID: 6685090
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A multi-profile managing apparatus being connected a plurality of profilers which are a different type from one another in terms of at least one of access protocol, data expression scheme, and data element names, each profiler including at least a real name of a data element existing in a real storage location, the apparatus comprising:a unified access unit accepting an access request originating from a user to any of the plurality of profilers according to an access protocol determined for each of a plurality of services, the access request designating a data element name that is associated with the user; a name managing unit converting the data element name designated in the access request to information indicating a real storage location corresponding to the data element name; a profile access unit accessing the profiler on the basis of the information indicating the real storage location obtained by the name managing unit; and a data-element correspondence table holding correspondence data representing the correspondence between each data element name used in the plurality of services, and at least one paired data composed of a physical address of a profiler and a real name of a data element; wherein the name managing unit specifies the real storage location corresponding to the data element name designated in the access request on the basis of the physical address and the real name of the data element obtained from the data-element correspondence table by using the data element name, and wherein the user accesses different profilers through the multi-profile managing apparatus by issuing different access requests, each of which includes a different data element name, to the multi-profile managing apparatus.