Method and apparatus for updating personal information in communication system

摘要

A method and apparatus for updating personal information in a communication system supporting a Converged Address Book (CAB) service are provided. The method and apparatus includes subscribing to external personal profile information from a non-CAB system, and updating personal information in accordance with a user preference-based synchronization method using the external personal profile information.

主权项

1. A method for updating personal information by a converged address book (CAB) extensible markup language (XML) document management server (XDMS) in a communication system supporting a CAB service, the method comprising:
receiving a profile subscribe request from a CAB client; providing profile subscribe request information to a CAB server; storing changes in external personal profile information that the CAB server is notified of from a non-CAB system by subscribing to the external personal profile information in the non-CAB system as a new personal profile information document in accordance with an instruction of the CAB server; setting an update type of personal profile information as ‘profile subscribe’ in the new personal profile information document stored in the CAB XDMS; and setting and storing an approval type depending on a user preference checked by the CAB server.