Patent ID: 6895439

Claim:
A system comprising: a home network including a subscriber data server which stores at least one user profile regarding providing of data services to at least one user with the profile including authentication information used to authenticate the at least one user of the data services when a request for data services is made using a first protocol; at least one user equipment which requests data services using the first network protocol and data services using at least one additional protocol, the at least one user equipment storing authentication information which is used when a request for data services is made to authenticate the at least one user; at least one proxy server, including resident therein a first proxy for the first protocol and at least one additional proxy for the at least one additional protocol; at least one application server coupled to the at least one proxy server, each application server providing data services to the at least one user using at least one of the at least one additional protocols through the at least one proxy server; the first proxy and the at least one additional proxy of the at least one proxy server authenticating requests for data services received from the at least one user equipment for the protocols by using the authentication information of the at least one profile which is transmitted from the subscriber data server to the at least one proxy server and the authentication information of the at least one user transmitted from the at least one user equipment to the at least one proxy server and provides information to the at least one application server permitting the at least one application server to provide final authorization of the at least one user to access the at least one application server or to provide final authorization of an action to be performed for the at least one user by the at least one application server.