Patent ID: 8184575

Claim:
A packet communication network comprising a mobile network operator (MNO) network, which includes a radio access network for communicating with wireless terminals, and a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) network including an application server for providing information services to the wireless terminals via the MNO network, wherein said MNO network includes a gateway apparatus for connecting said access network to a core network, a mobile controller, and a subscriber-associated-information delivery controller for receiving subscriber associated information of each wireless terminal being connected to the radio access network from at least one of said gateway apparatus and said mobile controller, generating an information forwarding message including the subscriber associated information and delivering the subscriber associated information to said MVNO network through said core network by means of said information forwarding message, wherein said MVNO network includes a subscriber-associated-information processor for receiving the information forwarding message from the subscriber-associated-information delivery controller through said core network and storing the subscriber associated information extracted from the received information forwarding message, thereby collecting subscriber associated information of wireless terminals including wireless terminals that did not access the application server, for use in the MVNO network, and wherein said subscriber-associated-information delivery controller has a laid-open information management table for indicating the correspondence of the subscriber-associated-information processor of said MVNO network and the kind of the subscriber associated information to be delivered, and generates said information forwarding message to selectively deliver the subscriber associated information of each wireless terminal to said subscriber-associated-information processor according to the laid-open information management table.