Patent ID: 8615593

Claim:
A method comprising: determining that a mobile station is within communication range of a private access point configured to access a local area network and a core network; sending, to the mobile station, information indicative of one or more available services provided by the private access point through access to the local area network and independent of access to the core network; receiving, from the mobile station, a request for a service from the one or more available services; accessing a plurality of applications for providing the one or more available services; determining, based on accessing, that the request comprises an amount of information that is less than a threshold amount of information required for selection of an application that provides the service; sending to the mobile station a request for additional information associated with the service; selecting, at least partly based on a response to the request for additional information, the application that provides the service; and providing, over the local area network, the application to the mobile station.