Patent ID: 8165579

Claim:
A communication system, comprising: a visitor mobile-services switching center which stores in-range information regarding a mobile device and performs communication processing for the mobile device; a home subscriber server which acquires in-range information regarding an incoming call destination from the visitor mobile-services switching center; an application server which determines a communication mode for the incoming call destination; and a gateway mobile switching center which, upon receipt of an incoming signal, transmits an inquiry signal which represents an incoming call destination inquiry to the home subscriber server and which, upon receipt of a response of access information indicating the incoming call destination from the home subscriber server, transmits an incoming signal to a destination, based on the access information, wherein the home subscriber server comprises: a flag judgment unit to judge whether an identification flag has been added, upon receipt of an inquiry signal which represents an incoming call destination inquiry from the gateway mobile switching center; and a response unit to send back access information indicating the access destination of the application server to the gateway mobile switching center in cases where judgment is made by the flag judgment unit that the identification flag has not been added and, in cases where judgment is made that the identification flag has been added, acquiring in-range information regarding the mobile device from the visitor mobile-services switching center and sending back the acquired in-range information to the gateway mobile switching center; and the application server comprises: an addition unit to, upon receipt of an incoming signal from the gateway mobile switching center, perform determination processing to determine the communication mode for the incoming call destination, and to add an identification flag indicating that the determination processing is complete to the incoming signal; and a response unit for sending back the incoming signal, to which the identification flag has been added by the addition unit, to the gateway mobile switching center.