Patent ID: 8412825

Claim:
A method of operating a Home Subscriber Server of an IP Multimedia Subsystem comprising the steps of: Maintaining for an access point (IP-PBX) serving a plurality of subscriber services, subscriber data including an Implicit Registration Set containing a wildcarded Public Service Identity or Public Service Identity sub-domain representative of a range of Public Service Identities associated with said services, and an identity of a Serving Call Session Control Function allocated to said services or criteria for allocating a Serving Call Session Control Function; upon registration of said access point, providing said Implicit Registration Set to one or more of an Interrogating Call Session Control Function (I-CSCF), Serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) or Proxy Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF); and upon receipt of a location information request from an Interrogating Call Session Control Function with respect to a SIP message received at the Interrogating Call Session Control Function, if the request URI of the message matches said wildcarded Public Service Identity or sub-domain, informing the Interrogating Call Session Control Function of the identity of the Serving Call Session Control Function or providing it with the selection criteria.