Patent ID: 7418256

Claim:
A method of invoking privacy related to a user equipment capable of accepting push messages in a communications network, which push message may be sent by a server to the user equipment without the user of the user equipment asking for it and the server having the ability to be able to act as a push message initiator, the method comprising: (i) sending, from the user equipment to an origin server, a first request for a service over a first channel; (ii) detecting by the origin server the requested service requiring personal user data comprising user's privacy preferences, said personal user data comprising user's privacy preferences being in the possession of a supporting server which is adapted to be able to act as a push message initiator, said origin server being an application server for the service the first request relates to; (iii) the origin server, in response to the request, sending to said supporting server a second request for personal user data comprising user's privacy preferences; (iv) the supporting server sending, in response to the second request, a push message over a narrow band channel to the user equipment, said push message detailing the second request and indicating what personal user data comprising user's privacy preferences is requested and for what purpose; (v) the user equipment sending to the supporting server, over the said narrow band channel a response to the push message, the response being at least an allowing message or a disallowing message for the requested personal user data comprising user's privacy preferences; (vi) the supporting server providing at least part of the requested personal user data comprising user's privacy preferences to the origin server in response to the allowing message; and (vii) the origin server providing to the user equipment the requested service in response to the allowing message.