Patent ID: 8175055

Claim:
A method for providing services, comprising: registering a User Equipment (UE) in a Circuit Switched (CS) network; registering the UE in an IP Multimedia Sub-system (IMS) network, wherein registering the UE in the IMS network comprises registering CS access capability of the UE in the IMS network; establishing a call branch at a CS network side between the UE and the IMS network for an IMS session; by a CS adapter (CSA), receiving a mobility management notification sent from a Visit Location Register (VLR) via a Customized Applications for Mobile network Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) mechanism, acquiring the information that the UE has registered in the CS network according to the mobility management notification, and generating a Session Initial Protocol (SIP) registration request; by the CSA, sending the SIP registration request to a serving-call and session control function (S-CSCF); and by the S-CSCF in the IMS network, acquiring user configuration data of the UE and registering at least one public user ID of the UE.