Patent ID: 8843595

Claim:
A control device for controlling communication in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, coupling a user equipment and an application provider that provides an application, the control device comprising: a receiving circuit configured to receive a reference to geographical information from the user equipment or from an intermediate node by receiving a message that encapsulates by reference said geographical information, wherein the geographical information directly describes a geographical location of the user equipment, and wherein the reference is not geographical information directly describing a geographical location; a communication circuit configured to: de-reference said geographical information by sending a request to a presence server requesting that the presence server convert said reference into said geographical information; and receive said geographical information from the presence server; a verification circuit configured to verify whether or not a spatial condition is met that depends on said geographical information and its relation to a defined spatial area, wherein the spatial area and the spatial condition are part of a control criterion associated with said application, and a control circuit configured to control a provisioning of the application to the user equipment according to a result of the verification circuit.