Maintenance of third party service's subscription information

A Service Capability Server (SCS) for controlling interactions between a network and a third party service, the SCS comprising capabilities for:

• receiving a trigger request for at least one event from the third party service, the trigger request comprising:
• a reference to the at least one event;
• and
• a third party service reference;
• communicating with an apparatus in the network to add a trigger in a trigger table of the apparatus;
• receiving a notification from the trigger table of an occurrence of the at least one event, the notification comprising:
• the third party service reference;
• the reference to the at least one event;
• and
• a reference to at least one user registered to the third party service within the network;
• informing the third party service of the received notification of the occurrence of the at least one event.

A method for delivering a notification of an event to a third party service from a network, the network and the third party service interacting with each other through a Service Capability Server (SCS), the method comprising steps of:

• detecting the event in the network;
• associating the event with a User_ID and a Service_ID, the User_ID being a reference to one of the users registered to the third party service and the Service_ID being a reference to the third party service;
• and
• sending a notification to the SCS, the notification request comprising:
• the Service ID;
• the User_ID;
• and
• a reference to the event;
• and
• informing the third party service of the received notification of the occurrence of the event.

A method for adding a trigger for an event in a network by a third party service, the network and the third party service interacting with each other through a Service Capability Server (SCS), the method comprising:

• sending a trigger request from the third party service to the SCS, the trigger request comprising:
• a reference to the event;
• and
• a reference to the third party service;
• and
• informing the network of the received trigger request for the occurrence of the event.