Method and agent for managing profile information

摘要

A method of and apparatus for managing user profile information. Dummy information is first supplied to a remote profile database. Then a service operable to request the user's profile information from the remote profile database is accessed and correct user profile information is supplied to the remote profile database to update the previously supplied dummy user profile information with correct user profile information. After the service accesses the correct user profile information, dummy information is again supplied to the remote profile database to update the previously supplied correct user profile information with dummy user profile information.