Patent ID: 8300629

Claim:
A gateway in a communication network comprising: a service control interaction manager (SCIM) residing in the gateway for providing management of services to a plurality of mobile nodes having different capabilities and for providing management of interactions between the plurality of mobile nodes and at least one application server in the communication network by hiding the different capabilities from the at least one application server; a call session control function (CSCF) in communication with the SCIM and residing in the gateway for handling session initiation protocol sessions and for handling interworking; and a local memory storage in communication with the CSCF and residing in the gateway for caching filter criteria and triggers for each of the plurality of the mobile nodes, wherein the filter criteria and triggers are used to determine service changes and, wherein the SCIM is configured for: detecting service requests received at the gateway from the plurality of mobile nodes for at least one service provided by the at least one application server; modifying the service requests and forwarding to the at least one application server the modified service requests to present to the at least one application server as though the service requests were received from a plurality of mobile nodes having identical capabilities; performing one or more conversions on packets received from the at least one application server in response to the modified service requests to generate responses, each of which includes features that corresponding mobile node of the plurality of mobile nodes is capable of processing; and forwarding the responses to respective mobile nodes of the plurality of mobile nodes.