Patent ID: 8787965

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, from a mobile network, an indication at a multimode terminal operably connected to the mobile network, the indication indicating that services may be locally available via at least one short-range wireless network, wherein the indication comprises multiple bits, which in combination of the multiple bits indicate one or more of the following: type of the at least short-range wireless network, transmit power allowed in the multimode terminal, a channel to be selected by multimode terminal, an IP address from which the multimode terminal may obtain further information about the locally available services, and a network address pointing to a source of service information; based on the indication, collecting service information about services for the multimode terminal available through at least one short-range radio interface of the multimode terminal, wherein said collecting service information comprises: the multimode terminal activating the at least one short-range radio interface, searching for one or more compliant networks, and receiving and storing network-specific information if a compliant network is found, and inactivating the at least one short-range radio interface if no compliant network is found; and based on the service information collected, compiling a service list describing at least one service available through the at least one short-range radio interface.