Enabling multiple service profiles on a single device
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsSreenivasa Rao Gorti, Anil Kumar Doradla
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Abstract
The embodiments disclosed include a system and method for enabling multiple service profiles on a single telecommunications device resulting in improved flexibility for a user who wishes to access different services through multiple service profiles. The user can access multiple service profiles with a single device, and therefore switch the set of services offered to the device. In one embodiment, the techniques described below are enabled through a Session Initiation Protocol (“SIP”)-based next-generation network (“NGN”), such as the IP Multimedia Subsystem (“IMS”) architecture.
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A method for enabling multiple service profiles in a session initiation protocol based network, comprising:
- authenticating a device with an access network, wherein the access network is coupled with the session initiation protocol based network that is external to the access network, wherein the authenticating verifies a credential of a user;
- registering the device with a first service profile in the session initiation protocol based network to yield a device registration, wherein the authenticating of the device is independent of the registering of the device;
- and switching the device registration to a second service profile in the session initiation protocol based network, wherein the first service profile is associated with a first set of services and the second service profile is associated with a second set of services, further wherein the device remains authenticated while the device registration is switched to the second service profile, wherein a service provided by the session initiation protocol based network is accessible by the device through the access network, wherein the switching to the second service profile is based on a policy, governing the switching, wherein the policy governing the switching comprises canceling the first profile when a designated time for the first profile expires.
A communications system, comprising:
- a session initiation protocol based network operative to register a registration from a first service profile of a telecommunications device;
- and an access network coupled with the session initiation protocol based network and operative to provide an authentication of the telecommunications device with the session initiation protocol based network that is external to the access network, wherein the authentication is a separate process from the registration, wherein the authentication verifies a credential of a user;
- wherein the session initiation protocol based network is operative to register a second registration from a second service profile of the telecommunications device and to switch the telecommunication device registration to the second service profile based on a policy, governing a switching of the telecommunications device registration,
- wherein the policy governing the switching comprises canceling the first profile when a designated time for the first profile expires, further wherein the telecommunications device remains authenticated while the registration is switched to the second service profile, wherein a service provided by the session initiation protocol based network is accessible by the telecommunications device through the access network.
An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for switching personalities, the computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions for:
- registering a registration of a telecommunications device with a first personality with an internet protocol multimedia subsystem network, wherein the telecommunications device is provided with an authentication by an access network coupled to the internet protocol multimedia subsystem network that is external to the access network, wherein the authentication is separate from the registration, wherein the authentication verifies a credential of a user;
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- switching the telecommunications device to a second personality in the internet protocol multimedia subsystem network, wherein the switching to the second personality is based on a policy governing the switching, wherein the policy governing the switching comprises canceling the first profile when a designated time for the first profile expires, wherein the telecommunications device remains authenticated while the registration is switched to the second personality, wherein a service provided by the session initiation protocol based network is accessible by the telecommunications device through the access network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.