System, method and computer program product for searching for, and retrieving, profile attributes based on other target profile attributes and associated profiles

摘要

A system, method and computer program product for searching for, and retrieving, profile (or directory) attributes based on other attributes of the target profile and that of associated profiles. In a specific implementation, the LDAP RFC 2254 string search syntax may be utilized to allow multiple related search filters to be specified at one time. The first of the sequence of query strings defined is used as a filter to retrieve candidate results and the succeeding filters, or query strings, are used to determine if a specific profile or directory should even be considered.