Patent ID: 8924554

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a web portal server operable to implement a web portal that is to be coupled to a service selection network element that itself is to be coupled to a plurality of computing devices of a plurality of subscribers over an access network to provide access through the service selection network element to a plurality of services provided by a set of one or more providers, wherein at least one of the set of one or more providers provides at least two of the plurality of services, wherein the web portal server is to present the web portal to the plurality of subscribers due to a redirection policy, and wherein the web portal is to allow the plurality of subscribers at the plurality of computing devices to perform one or more activities that include: selecting a service from the plurality of services provided by the set of one or more providers, and switching from the selected service by selecting another service from the plurality of services provided by the set of one or more providers, wherein responsive to each of the one or more activities performed by a given one of the plurality of subscribers, the web portal is to perform the following: cause a domainless service selection (DLSS) record of that subscriber that is stored by a remote database server, that DLSS record including a domainless user identifier of that subscriber and a domain name, to be altered to reflect that one of the one or more activities performed and reflect the domain name of the provider providing the selected service, and cause the service selection network element to access the altered DLSS record from the remote database server and attempt to connect a computing device of the subscriber according to the altered DLSS record for the most recently selected service, wherein the service selection network element comprises a single device implementing one or more routers.