Patent ID: 8620262
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a subscriber database of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network that is provisioned with Advice of Charging (AoC) indicators that indicate particular AoC services subscribed to by IMS users, wherein an AoC indicator is associated with an identifier for each of the IMS users; the subscriber database is operable to receive a register request from a serving-call session control function (S-CSCF) as an IMS user attempts to register with the IMS network, to identify an AoC indicator for the IMS user responsive to receiving the register request, to insert the AoC indicator in a register response, and to transmit the register response to the S-CSCF to provide the AoC indicator for the IMS user to the S-CSCF.