METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING TERMINAL CAPABILITIES

摘要

The present invention relates to telecommunication systems providing multiple services which could require possible adaptations based on the capabilities of the terminal used to access those services.;Master databases in the telecommunication system take the responsibility to map between terminal and user identifiers. Applications and services are thus able to query terminal related capability information based on a user identity.;In accordance with the invention, a Terminal Capabilities database (TC-DB) is introduced in order to establish a temporary relationship between a user and a terminal operated by such user. When a user attaches to the network, a terminal identifier is sent to the network that forwards that identity to the TC-DB. For retrieval of terminal capabilities the application servers send a request message to the TC-DB by using the user identity as a correlating key.

主权项

1. A method for providing capabilities of a terminal equipment operated by a user, the method carried out at a network entity holding user profiles for users of a telecommunication network and comprising:
receiving a user identity for a user operating a terminal equipment and a terminal equipment identifier identifying the terminal equipment; associating the received user identity with the received terminal equipment identifier and with a user profile for the user; receiving a request from an application server for providing the capabilities of the terminal equipment currently in use by the user identified by the user identity; obtaining the terminal equipment identifier associated with the user identity; fetching from a terminal capabilities database a list of capabilities stored for the terminal equipment identifier; and sending the list of capabilities to the application server.