Third party ims services
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorKulandaivel Marappa Gounder
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Abstract
A telecommunications service provider provides a telecommunications infrastructure that is based in part on an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The provider may have various IMS application servers to support different services for subscribers of the provider, such as messaging, voice communications, presence, etc. In addition, third parties may provide their own IMS application servers for the same services or for different services. Subscribers of the provider are routed to the provider-supported application servers, while subscribers of the third parties are routed to application servers of the third parties. This allows third parties to implement and control their own services, while also leveraging the existing infrastructure of the provider.
Claims20
An IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network, comprising:
- a first IMS application server associated with a wireless communications carrier to provide a first service for subscribed devices of a wireless communications carrier;
- a second IMS application server associated with a business entity other than the wireless communications carrier to provide a second service for subscribed devices of the business entity, wherein users of the subscribed devices are subscribed to services of the business entity;
- a service broker configured to performs actions comprising:
- receiving a first request from a first device for the first service, wherein the first device is subscribed to the wireless communication carrier;
- routing the first request to the first IMS application server;
- receiving a second request from a second request from a second device for the second service;
- and
- routing the second request to the second IMS application server.
A method comprising:
- receiving from a first communication device, at a computing device associated with an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) of a service provider, a first request for a first service, wherein a user of the first communication device is a subscriber of the service provider;
- routing the first request to a first IMS application server of the service provider;
- receiving from a second communication device, at the computing device associated with the IMS of the service provider, a second request for a second service, wherein a user of the second communication device is a subscriber of an entity other than the service provider;
- and
- routing the second request to a second IMS application server of the entity.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core of a wireless communications carrier from a communication device, a request for a service;
- determining that a user of the communication device is a subscriber of a business entity other than the wireless communications carrier;
- and
- in response to determining that the user of the communication device is a subscriber of a business entity other than the wireless communications carrier, routing the request to an IMS application server of the business entity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.