Patent ID: 8516115

Claim:
A method, comprising: participating in a registration of at least one subscriber entity with a network, wherein the registration includes receiving, from a subscriber information store associated with the at least one subscriber entity to a connection controller, information indicative of a service profile; and enabling an access to an application service of an application provider, wherein the enabling comprises determining whether the application provider is in a trusted network, and in response to determining that the application provider is in the trusted network, transmitting, from the connection controller to the application provider located remotely from the subscriber information store, at least part of the information indicative of the service profile, and in response to determining that the application provider is not in the trusted network, transmitting from the connection controller to the application provider at least one of subscriber-specific information, wherein the at least one subscriber-specific information includes registration information other than the service profile, wherein at least some of the information, regarding whether subscriber-specific information is allowed to be fetched from the subscriber information store, is transmitted from the connection controller to the application provider via at least one session initiation protocol message, and wherein the subscriber information store comprises a home subscriber server.