Patent ID: 8799490

Claim:
A device connected to a network, comprising: a home subscriber server (HSS) logic, including instructions stored on a computer-readable storage memory operably connectable to entities including a user database, an application server (AS), and a permissions database, wherein the HSS logic, permissions database and user database are components of an internet protocol (IP) multimedia core network subsystem (IMS), wherein the HSS logic is to receive an AS-to-user-database-interface-message (AUDIM) from the AS, wherein the HSS logic includes a discovery logic to determine whether the AS is related to any records in the permissions database, wherein, in response to the discovery logic determining that the AS is not related to any records in the permissions database, the HSS logic is to determine that the permissions database is in an auto-discovery state and automatically update the permissions database by creating a record related to the AS from which the AUDIM is received and adding the created record to the permissions database, wherein the record created is based, at least in part, on one or more fields in the AUDIM, and wherein the user database is to store user data concerning one or more users of the IMS, the AS is to provide one or more services to the one or more users, and the permissions database is to store permissions information to control an AUDIM-initiated interaction between the AS and the user database.