END USER CONTROLLED MULTI-SERVICE DEVICE PRIORITY SETTING

摘要

A communication network allows an end user to dynamically select a user device among user devices associated with the user's subscription as the primary user device by defining a primary capability tag or attribute. Selection of a user device sets the primary capability tag of the selected user device, which is published towards an application server. The application server notifies all other user devices in the group of devices. If a previous user device in the group of user devices was set as the primary user device, then, in response to the notification, the previous user device performs a re-registration with the network removing the previous user device as the primary user device for the services associated with the user subscription. The selected user device also performs a re-registration/registration with the network so all incoming requests for services associated with the user subscription are sent to the selected user device.

主权项

1. A method of routing service requests to user devices in a communications network comprising an IP multimedia subsystem, IMS, and a capability exchange application server, wherein a group of user devices are associated with an IMS user subscription, the method comprising the steps of:
setting a user device to be a primary user device of the group of user devices for receiving all incoming service requests from services associated with the group of user devices; and sending a primary capability indication associated with the user device to a capability exchange application server for use in notifying the primary capability indication associated with the user device to other user devices in the group of user devices, wherein the primary capability indication includes data representative of the user device being the primary user device for the group of devices.