System for personal management information applications

1. A terminal comprising a processor, a memory unit and a display screen, the terminal to be used by a near end user for a telecommunications with a far end user, the telecommunications being activated by the near end user when selecting on the terminal information corresponding to the far end user, the information including a plurality of information value types whereby at least two out of the plurality of information value types have a different value type attribute, whereby each value type attribute is correlated with the location of the terminal within different possible areas with respect to the location of the far end user while a combination of a value type and a value type attribute identifies the far end user, the combination being required to setup the telecommunications, wherein the memory unit contains instructions to be executed when such telecommunications towards a far end user is activated by the near end user, the instructions implementing a method of importing specific data from the selected information of the far end user, the method comprising:

locating the terminal of the near end user;

associating the location of the terminal of the near end user with one of the different possible areas identified by a specific value type attribute; and

extracting accordingly the specific data comprising the specific value type attribute out of the selected information from the far end user for setting up the activated telecommunications;

wherein the terminal comprises a memory unit for the storage of a directory with information of different far end users in the predefined format, the selection on the terminal by the near end user of the far end user information out of the directory being performed using a browser available on the terminal, the browser allowing retrieval of further information in the predefined format by setting up a connection with a gateway, the gateway comprising a parser adapted to retrieve information originally in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to forward to the terminal the retrieved information in the predefined format embedded in a web page.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the terminal location is determined by identifying the area within which the terminal builds a connection prior to setup of the activated telecommunications, the connection being available for the transmission of the telecommunications.

3. The terminal according to claim 2 wherein a plurality of areas correspond to a plurality of existing networks.

4. The terminal according to claim 3 , wherein the terminal comprises a memory unit in which predefined rules are stored to be applied for associating the terminal location to one network when the terminal builds a connection with a different existing network.

5. The terminal according to claim 3 , wherein the terminal comprises a radio interface to perform the connection via a wireless link to a base station being part of the network to be used for setting up the activated telecommunications with the far end user.

6. The terminal according to claim 5 , wherein the terminal performs an attempt to identify the network within its reach, the location of the near end user terminal being determined after reception by the terminal of the network identity.

7. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the terminal comprises a memory unit where the information of the far end user is stored in a predefined format while the property names and property parameters of the predefined format are embedded as XML-code in a webpage.

8. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the combination of a value type and a value type attribute corresponds to a telephone number.

9. The terminal according to claim 8 , wherein at least one combination corresponds to a telephone number expressed as a canonical representation of the phone number and at least one further combination corresponds to a telephone number expressed as a non-canonical representation.

10. A computer readable medium, embodied on a processor, having a computer program recorded thereon, the computer program being executable on a near end terminal after being activated by a near end user when selecting on the near end terminal information corresponding to a far end user for setting up a telecommunications using the near end terminal between the near end user and the far end user, the information including a plurality of information value types whereby at least two out of the plurality of information value types have a different value type attribute, whereby each value type attribute is correlated with the location of the terminal within different possible areas with respect to the location of the far end user while the combination of a value type and a value type attribute identifies the far end user, the combination being required to setup the telecommunications, the computer program comprising codes adapted to perform the following steps:

locating the near end terminal of the near end user;

associating the location of the near end terminal with one of the different possible areas identified by a specific value type attribute; and

extracting accordingly the specific data comprising the specific value type attribute out of the selected information from the far end user for setting up the activated telecommunications,

wherein the terminal comprises a memory unit for the storage of a directory with information of different far end users in the predefined format, the selection on the terminal by the near end user of the far end user information out of the directory being performed using a browser available on the terminal, the browser allowing retrieval of further information in the predefined format by setting up a connection with a gateway, the gateway comprising a parser adapted to retrieve information originally in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to forward to the terminal the retrieved information in the predefined format embedded in a web page.