Patent ID: 8345679

Claim:
A method for providing information to an Application Server (AS) by a network component, the method comprising: receiving, from a user equipment (UE), Session initiation Protocol (SIP) Register message; determining whether filter criteria indicate a need for a new SIP message, and further determining whether the filter criteria indicate the new SIP message is to comprise at least one if the SIP Register message as a whole or a SIP response message, wherein the determinations are responsive to reception of the SIP Register message; including a Multi-purpose internet Mail Extensions (MIME) body in the body of the new SIP message, the MIME body including at least one of the SIP Register message as a whole or the SIP response message; and sending the new SIP message to the AS, wherein the received SIP Register message has a received start line and the new SIP message has a new start line, and the received start line and the new start line are not the same.