Patent ID: 7836190

Claim:
A method for managing shared local multimedia resource reservation for a multimedia session in a telecommunications system, wherein the telecommunications system comprises: a first IP network, a second IP network comprising an IP multimedia subsystem, the IP multimedia subsystem including at least one control node, a first and a second user terminal connected to the IP multimedia subsystem, a first media terminal connected to the first IP network, the first media terminal being capable of providing at least one local multimedia resource to the first user terminal, and a second media terminal connected to the first IP network, the second media terminal being capable of providing at least one local multimedia resource to the second user terminal; the method comprising: searching and reserving the first media terminal for the first user terminal; searching and reserving the second media terminal for the second user terminal; transmitting, from the first user terminal to the second user terminal via the at least one control node, a multimedia session request and first information on the reserved first media terminal; receiving said first information and said multimedia session request in the second user terminal; and indicating, to the user of the second user terminal, the received multimedia session request; wherein, after said request is accepted by the user, the method further comprises: transmitting, from the second user terminal to the first user terminal via the at least one control node, second information on the reserved second media terminal; transmitting said second information from the first user terminal to the first media terminal; and based on said first and second information, transmitting, via the first IP network, data traffic between the first media terminal and the second media terminal.