Intelligent Network Address Book
Metaswitch’s Colibria Intelligent Network Address Book (INAB) is an evolution of the standard network address book where contacts are linked together, rather than just stored, creating a social network around communications services where the address book is the central point for all contact interaction.
The standard network address book only provides backup and restore capabilities, typically through a SyncML interface for a centralized address book. OMA has defined a new standard, the Converged Address Book (CAB) standard which provides enhanced mechanisms for dynamic user interaction with the address book and forms the basis of a more intelligent network address book.
As an integral part of the Colibria Application Suite (AS), the INAB, with built-in intelligence on top of the CAB standard, gives service providers the ability to deploy SIP-based address book centric services, such as RCS, as part of a next generational communications offering to its subscribers. Furthermore, it is compliant to both existing RCS standards and future RCS standards, which means that service providers need not worry about incompatibility and interoperability concerns now and in the near future.
As XCAP traffic is only increasing for all real-time communication services (especially based on SIP), service providers will be well positioned to seamlessly integrate address book functionality into new and innovative services to its subscribers without additional capital expenditures.
The Colibria INAB solution provides a SyncML and XCAP interface to the network address book, automatically delivers updated contact information to users, ensures that user privacy mechanisms are enforced and notifies contacts when they are added to an address book. This enables the contacts to enforce the desired privacy mechanisms towards the address book owner.
In addition, the INAB solution can be seamlessly integrated into a Service provider’s ecosystem, such as a service Delivery Platform (SDP), for 3rd party application vendors to integrate the evolutionary aspects of the INAB into value added services for subscribers.