User (telecommunications)
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In telecommunications, a user is a person, organization, or other entity that employs the services provided by a telecommunication
system, or by an information
processing system, for transfer
of information.
A user functions as a source or final destination of user information
, or both. Synonym: subscriber.
User is also a person or process accessing an AIS
by direct connections (e.g., via terminals) or indirect connections. "Indirect connection" relates to persons who prepare input data or receive output
that is not reviewed for content or classification by a responsible individual.
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
system, or by an information
Information
Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...
processing system, for transfer
Transfer
Transfer may refer to:* Transfer * Transfer * Transfer DNA, the transferred DNA of the tumor-inducing plasmid of some species of bacteria such as Agrobacterium tumefaciens* Transfer...
of information.
A user functions as a source or final destination of user information
User information
User information is information transferred across the functional interface between a source user and a telecommunications system for delivery to a destination user.In telecommunications systems, user information includes user overhead information....
, or both. Synonym: subscriber.
User is also a person or process accessing an AIS
Automated information system
The term automated information system means an assembly of computer hardware, software, firmware, or any combination of these, configured to accomplish specific information-handling operations, such as communication, computation, dissemination, processing, and storage of information...
by direct connections (e.g., via terminals) or indirect connections. "Indirect connection" relates to persons who prepare input data or receive output
Output
Output is the term denoting either an exit or changes which exit a system and which activate/modify a process. It is an abstract concept, used in the modeling, system design and system exploitation.-In control theory:...
that is not reviewed for content or classification by a responsible individual.