Patent ID: 8626708

Claim:
A method executed at a node comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: managing, by at least one of a plurality of network application functions of a cellular network, service specific user security settings stored in a first database included in a home subscriber server, wherein the managing of the service specific user security settings comprises a first phase and a second phase: the first phase operative over a duration of a bootstrapping temporary identifier, such that the at least one network application function modifies a second database of a bootstrapping function by performing at least one of an insertion, an update, and a deletion of an internal copy of the service specific user security settings in the second database, wherein the second database is at the bootstrapping function and is separate from the first database, and the second phase operative when the duration of the bootstrapping temporary identifier becomes invalid by at least one of expiry and replacement, such that the bootstrapping function updates the service specific user security settings in the first database with the modifications made during the first phase to the second database.