IM Relationship Resolution Information Center, Version 4.2

Attributes

Attributes are characteristics or traits that describe a person, organization, place, or item. Common attributes include information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, tax identification numbers, and license numbers.

The system supports the following kinds of attributes:

Names
Name attributes define the name of the person, organization, place or item, as defined by the entity model and the incoming identity. Name attributes typically represent persons and businesses, but they can extend to the names of vehicles (such as cars, trucks, ships, or planes), groups, or any other type of entity that your business defines in its entity model.
Addresses
Address attributes define a location of the identity and typically contain standard address information: street name and number, unit or building number, city, state, country, and postal code.
Numbers
Number attributes are comprised of data that is usually described as a number, such as credit card numbers, phone numbers, and passport numbers. Numbers are not limited to numeric characters only though, because many numbers use alphanumeric characters.
Characteristics
Characteristic attributes define other identity traits or information that is not expressed through the other kinds of attributes. You can use characteristic attributes to customize the system to define identity characteristics that you want to use for resolving entities or detecting relationships. Common types of characteristics include dates of birth and gender.
E-mails
E-mail attributes define Internet e-mail addresses. E-mail addresses tend to be unique; some studies have suggested that people who tend to use more than one name still tend to use the same one or two e-mail addresses.

In Universal Message Format (UMF), the various kinds of attributes are expressed in UMF segments. Each kind of attribute is its own UMF segment.



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Last updated: 2009