Patent ID: 7877079

Claim:
A method comprising: sending to at least one of a plurality of repository access functions, by the generic user profile server, a request for a generic user profile data, said generic user profile data comprising a plurality of parts, at least one of the plurality of parts comprising one or more of a data component, a data group, and a data element, wherein authorization data referencing the generic user profile data is one of the plurality of parts of said generic user profile data, wherein the authorization data is independent of the at least one of the plurality of parts, wherein the authorization data is common to a plurality of users of a certain part of a profile, and wherein each of the plurality of repository access functions is configured to access a different portion of the generic user profile data stored in a respective one of a plurality of repositories; receiving from the at least one of the plurality of repository access functions, at the generic user profile server, a response comprising said generic user profile data to which a requestor has authorized access rights, the authorization being defined on the basis of the authorization data stored in at least one of the plurality of repositories accessed by the respective ones of the plurality of repository access functions; and sending to the requestor, by the generic user profile server, said generic user profile data after receiving the response comprising said generic user profile data.