Patent ID: 6978132

Claim:
In a wireless telecommunications network comprising a serving system maintaining a service profile for at least one subscriber, a method of provisioning service for the at least one subscriber, comprising: receiving at an SCP a Qualification Directive carrying a service profile transmitted from an HLR; detecting a stimulus selected from the group consisting of a time-based stimulus and a call-processing-based stimulus; in response to the stimulus, the SCP modifying the service profile to include a trigger arranged to cause the serving system to send a message to a designated network entity; sending the Qualification Directive, containing the modified service profile, from the SCP to the serving system; and arranging the designated network entity to carry out a set of service logic associated with the subscriber or group of subscribers in response to the message, wherein, by modifying the Qualification Directive from the HLR before sending the Qualification Directive alone to the serving system, the SCP thereby overrides the Qualification Directive sent from the HLR.