Patent ID: 8402147

Claim:
A system for improved communication of subscriber profile data in a communications network having a distributed subscriber profile data repository, comprising: a plurality of event forwarders associated with a data repository containing subscriber profile data such that the data repository comprises a portion of the distributed subscriber profile data repository, wherein each event forwarder is configured to monitor access requests for subscriber profile data in its data repository, determine if an access request response time exceeds a performance threshold and send a subscriber profile data transfer indicator to a transfer manager for each access request that exceeds the performance threshold; a transfer manager configured to receive from the plurality of event forwarders subscriber profile data transfer indicators and determine for each subscriber profile data transfer indicator if a set of subscriber profile data should be transferred from a first data repository associated with an event forwarder who transmitted the subscriber profile data transfer indicator to a second data repository associated with the access request; and a transfer controller configured to control movement of the set of subscriber profile data from the first data repository to the second data repository which is geographically closer to the subscriber.