Registrations in a communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9277571-B2
Application number	US-73363503-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 12, 2003
Priority date	May 13, 2003
Publication date	Mar 1, 2016
Grant date	Mar 1, 2016

Abstract

A method in a communication system processes incoming requests at a controller entity. The method comprises the steps of registering a plurality of contact addresses for a user in a controller entity, receiving a request at the controller entity for a communication link to the user, querying a user information storage for information regarding a manner regarding how to handle the request, and processing the request in accordance with the information from the user information storage.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
registering, in a controller entity comprising a call state control function, a plurality of contact addresses for a user;
receiving, at the controller entity, a request for a communication link to the user;
querying, by the controller entity, a database at a home subscriber server for information regarding a manner regarding how to handle the request; and
processing, at the controller entity, the request based on the queried information from the database, wherein, when provided during registration, the controller entity uses user preference information to determine whether to fork the request in parallel or sequentially.

2. The method as claimed claim 1 , wherein the registering comprises registering the plurality of contact addresses for the user in the controller entity which is provided in association with a multimedia network.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the registering comprises the user registering the plurality of contact addresses in at least two different communication networks.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the querying comprises applying a query to a sub-group of known contact addresses.

5. The method as claimed claim 1 , further comprising indicating and assigning handling instructions for at least one contact address independently during registration of the at least one contact address.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the indicating and assigning comprises indicating and handling the handling instructions for the at least one contact address by either the user or the database.

7. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor and the at least one memory provide operations comprising:
registering, in a controller entity comprising a call state control function, a plurality of contact addresses for a user;
receiving, at the controller entity, a request for a communication link to the user;
querying, by the controller entity, a database at a home subscriber server for information regarding a manner regarding how to handle the request; and
processing, at the controller entity, the request based on the queried information from the database, wherein, when provided during registration, the controller entity uses user preference information to determine whether to fork the request in parallel or sequentially.

8. An apparatus comprising:
registration means for registering, in a controller entity comprising a call state control function, a plurality of contact addresses for a user;
interface means, at a controller entity, for interfacing to a database for storing information regarding how to handle a request for the user;
querying means for querying, by the controller entity, the database at a home subscriber server for information regarding a manner regarding how to handle the request; and
processing means for processing, at the controller entity, the request based on the queried information from the database, wherein, when provided during registration, the controller entity uses user preference information to determine whether to fork the request in parallel or sequentially.

9. The apparatus as claimed claim 7 , wherein the apparatus is provided in association with a multimedia network.

10. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the registering is configured to register the plurality of contact addresses in at least two different communication networks.

11. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the querying applies a query to a sub-group of known contact addresses.

12. The apparatus as claimed claim 7 , further comprising receiving handling instructions for at least one contact address during registration of the at least one contact address.

13. The apparatus as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the handling instructions are received from at least one of the user or the database.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the request comprises a session initiation protocol request.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the call state control function is a serving call state control function.

Assignees

• Kiss Krisztian
• Bajko Gabor
• Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventors

• Kiss Krisztian
• Bajko Gabor

Classifications

• H04L65/1073

  Registration or de-registration · CPC title

• H04W76/02 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L65/1016

  IP multimedia subsystem [IMS] · CPC title

• H04W8/18

  Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data · CPC title

• H04W28/06

  Optimizing {the usage of the radio link}, e.g. header compression, information sizing {, discarding information (system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365)} · CPC title