Patent ID: 7006825

Claim:
A method of facilitating service delivery to a first user registered with a home network for a particular service having an associated service accessible to a service subsystem of said home network in a communications system while the first user is roaming in a visited network of the communications system, comprising: initiating a connection between said first user and a second user registered with any network of said communications system, a subsystem of said visited network, sending an invocation of a service to said service subsystem of said home network, establishing call status data necessary for re-establishment of call state of said service subsystem, storing said call status data in a storage of said service subsystem, said service subsystem of said home network instructing said subsystem of the visited network to set up a connection between the first user via said subsystem of the visited network to the service subsystem of the home network, setting up said connection, detecting, by the home network, the connection as a connection requiring Intelligent Network service, wherein the detecting includes calling a specific number, delivering the associated service to the first user via said connection, disconnecting the delivery of said associated service, and redirecting said connection from said first user to said second user.