Patent ID: 8301734
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for registering an application client with a network application across an inter-network mix of application architectures with or without IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), the method comprising: initiating a registration process for registering the application client of a subscriber unit with the network application of the wireless network at the application client executing on the subscriber unit, including: in response to determining that the application availability notification has not been received, determining after a predetermined period of time if a standalone application platform for the network application of the wireless network is detected, wherein the standalone application platform is an application server that is not integrated with the IMS network of the wireless network; and initiating a standalone mode registration process with the standalone application platform in response to detecting the standalone application platform of the wireless network and instead of initiating the integrated mode registration process.