Patent ID: 8234382

Claim:
A method, comprising: detecting first information about a supported connection capability able to be used for a communication between a called party and a calling party in a network, which first information is generated by network control element that controls connections between the called party and the calling party in the network; transmitting said first information from the network control element to the called party to be connected in the communication with the calling party; receiving second information from the called party about a connection service requested by the called party to be used for the communication between the called party and the calling party, which second information is determined by the called party based on the first information; detecting, at the network control element, connection related third information about a supported connection service between the at least one network control element and the calling party; evaluating, at the network control element, whether the requested connection service supports the supported connection service, and in response to the requested connection service not supporting the supported connection service between the network control element and the calling party: overriding the second information about the requested connection service determined by the called party by using the connection related third information about the supported connection service to set up a communication using the supported connection service between the called party and the calling party.