Patent ID: 8191100

Claim:
A method of providing Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and other communication services to a group of users of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network, said method comprising the steps of: associating in a local object code of a terminal, a group private user identity with a group public user identity and with a plurality of individual public user identities, each individual public user identity being associated with a different user in the group; registering a group subscription with the IMS network utilizing the group private user identity and the group public user identity; obtaining by the local object code, an address of an IPTV Portal from the IMS network; initiating IPTV service for the group subscription through the address of the IPTV Portal; and registering a first individual user with the IMS network only when the individual public user identity associated with the first individual user is received by the terminal, while maintaining the group registration with the IMS network, thereby providing the first user with IPTV service without restarting a browser in the terminal.