Have it Your Way: Personalization of Network-Hosted Services

(Research Seminar, September 26, 2002)

Rick Hull
Director, Network Data and Services Research
Bell Labs


Abstract:

This talk describes recent trends in network-hosted services, with an emphasis on services provided over wireless, and including both web and voice capabilities.  Technologies such as SIP and the Parlay/OSA standards allow a "convergence" of the networks, enabling rich combinations of services that span the telephony and internet realms. In order to take full advantage of these services, both private and corporate users will increasingly need to personalize their usage of them. We survey how techniques from XML, federated databases, and rules-based systems are being applied to support such personalization