SETTING USER PREFERENCES VIA MOBILE TERMINAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method, system and terminal for setting, in an information system comprising a network connecting user terminals and one or more servers, local user preferences valid for the terminal and non-local user preferences valid for the one or more servers. SOLUTION: A preferences setting file is downloaded from one of the servers to the relevant terminal, which is completed by the terminal user with the user's local and/or non-local preferences. Subsequently, the completed preferences setting file is uploaded to the server. One or more preference groups ("moods") may be assigned to the completed local and/or non-local preferences. The user may select one out of the preference groups, resulting in retrieval in the relevant server, the local and/or non-local preferences assigned to the selected preference group, and activating the relevant preferences in the terminal and the network and/or the servers. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT