Patent ID: 8085783

Claim:
A method comprising: indicating, by a user device, a state associated with a priority service subscription indicator, wherein the state is one of a first state that indicates a user has a subscription for priority service or a second state that indicates the user does not have a subscription for priority service; indicating, by the user device, a state associated with a priority service activation indicator, wherein the state is one of a first state that indicates a network has authorized the user to use priority service or a second state that indicates the network has not authorized the user to use priority service; receiving, by the user device, an input request for invoking a priority service for a priority communication; determining, by the user device, in response to the receiving, whether the user of the user device is a subscriber of the priority service based on the state associated with the priority service subscription indicator; determining, by the user device, in response to the receiving, whether the user of the user device has been authorized by the network to use priority service based on the state associated with the priority service activation indicator; and establishing, by the user device, network resources on which the priority communication is to be transmitted, based on the state associated with the priority service subscription indicator and the state associated with the priority service activation indicator.