Patent ID: 8879421

Claim:
A method for personal network service configuration enabling Service configuration by a plurality of Personal Network Entities connected to a Personal Network comprising a Personal Network Application Server accessible via IP Multimedia Subsystem domain, a primary Personal Network Entity holding a subscription to control the Personal Network and a plurality of secondary Personal Network Entities controlled by the primary Personal Network Entity, comprising: associating configuration rights to each Personal Network Entity describing which specific services each of the Personal Network Entities is permitted to configure in the Personal Network; storing identities of each of the Personal Network Entities and the configuration rights describing the specific services that each of the Personal Network Entities is permitted to configure in the Personal Network, the configuration rights being associated to each of the Personal Network Entities in a Personal Network Right Configuration Element (PNRCE); comparing a configuration request issued by any one of the Personal Network Entities with the configuration rights stored in the PNRCE for one of the Personal Network Entities having sent the configuration request, the configuration request being a request for the one Personal Network Entity having sent the configuration request to configure one or more specific services in the Personal Network, the configuration request being compared with the stored configuration rights to determine whether the one or more specific services indicated by the configuration request corresponds with at least one of the specific services the one Personal Network Entity is permitted to configure; and sending the configuration request to the Personal Network Application Server when the configuration request is compliant with one or more of the configuration rights stored in the PNRCE for the one Personal Network Entity having sent the configuration request, wherein the specific services that each of the Personal Network Entities is permitted to configure in the Personal Network and the specific services indicated by the configuration request from the one Personal Network Entity comprise one or more of redirection of services for one or a set of the Personal Network Entities, modifying session redirection, registering one of the Personal Network Entities in the Personal Network, and activating Private Network Service.