Patent ID: 8055774

Claim:
A method for verifying user profile data for a terminal in an IP multimedia sub-system (IMS) network, the method including: at a component: receiving, from a home subscriber server (HSS), a notification message indicating a home subscriber server (HSS) reset; in response to receiving the notification message, marking a terminal associated with the HSS for indicating that user profile data associated with the terminal is not confirmed by the HSS; transmitting, to the HSS, a request message for bypassing a download of the user profile data associated with the terminal, wherein the HSS is configured to override the request message if the user profile data has not been downloaded since the HSS transmitted the notification message; receiving, from the HSS, a response message including the user profile data associated with the terminal; and in response to receiving the response message including the user profile data associated with the terminal, marking the terminal for indicating that the user profile data associated with the terminal is confirmed by the HSS.