Patent ID: 7181441

Claim:
A computer implemented database for storing and managing user profile data representing sets of different terminal devices via which a user can be reached, in an information transmission network, wherein the database comprises respectively for each user a plurality of pre-configured user profiles which can be created, edited and/or deleted by the user, and each of the plurality of customizable user profiles are associated with a logical context of the user defining a particular situation of said user, a user can activate only one of the plurality of user profiles at one time, the activated user profile indicating the terminal device or devices out of the set of terminal devices over which the user desires to be informed at the present logical context, the user sends selection information to the user profile database in order to activate the terminal device or devices out of the set of terminal devices over which the user desires to be reached, the database includes one presence token or a plurality of presence tokens for each user, each presence token representing the availability of a user at a predetermined terminal device, the user profiles are implemented as sets of properties, and each card has a property key identifying a given profile property and a property value corresponding to a given property content.