Patent ID: 7471674

Claim:
A method for enlisting one or more end users in a network environment in which signaling for a wireless access network occurs, comprising: enlisting one or more end users in a billing plan associated with network communications; generating a bill associated with one or more of the end users, the bill being based on the billing plan; and facilitating network communications for one or more of the end users in response to the end users being enlisted in the billing plan, whereby the network communications includes a protocol that comprises: receiving from a wireless access network a signaling message for a mobile device, the signaling message in a wireless-specific format; converting the signaling message to a native format of a call agent to generate a call agent message; creating an extended portion of the call agent message comprising wireless specific information of the signaling message; and communicating the call agent message to a call agent for processing, whereby the call agent is operable to support location updates for the mobile device in the wireless access network by processing the extended portion of the call agent message, wherein the signaling message comprises a location update message for the mobile device.