Patent ID: 8275372

Claim:
A method for enabling support of Intelligent Network (IN) services for an outbound roamer of a Home Public Mobile Network (HPMN) in a Visited Public Mobile Network (VPMN), the outbound roamer having a mobile device, the HPMN having an associated gateway, a service node and a Signaling Control Point (SCP), the method comprising: upon detecting a successful location update of the outbound roamer at the VPMN, enabling a client coupled to the mobile device based on observation of exchange of one or more parameters with the gateway, wherein the client is enabled by exchanging encapsulated IN messages with the gateway over one or more bearers, and wherein at least one of the HPMN and the VPMN is unable to support one selected from a group consisting of exchange of IN messages, and an IN agreement; facilitating, via the gateway, communication between the client and one of the service node and the SCP, wherein the gateway translates the exchanged encapsulated IN messages in a protocol that is compatible with one selected from a group consisting of the service node and the SCP; and managing the outbound roamer's IN services via the gateway and one of the service node and the SCP by updating, at the client, one or more traffic control conditions of the outbound roamer based on recognition of the exchanged encapsulated IN messages.