| 摘要 |
<p>Method(s) and apparatus are provided for use in controlling access to and/or use of one or more applications in a communications network300. The communications network 300 includes an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem 302, an application server (AS) 304, and a plurality of user equipments (UEs). At least oneof the applications is associated with an application profile information. The method(s) and apparatus are used to query whether a UE 306 of the plurality of UEs is authorised to access or use one or more application(s). In order to do this, one or more user control policy(ies) associated with the UE 306are retrieved, where the user subscription associated with the UE306that is stored in the network 300 includes the user control policy(ies). It is then determinedwhether the one or more application(s) are authorised to be accessed by the UE 306 based on the user control policies associated with the UE (306; 406) and the application profile information associated with at least one of the one or more application(s), which may be retrieved from each application or from a database of applications. In response to the request message, an indication of whether the one or more application(s) are authorised to be accessed by the UE306 may be provided or sent.</p> |
