摘要 |
<p>The present invention concern methods and apparatuses for handling public identities in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network According to a method an HSS (130) receives (501) a request message from an S-CSCF The request message includes a public identity. The HSS (130) sends (505) a response message including the registered wildcarded public identity to the S-CSCF if (502, 503, 504) the request message includes an indication that the public identity is unregistered, the request message does not include a wildcarded public identity indication, and the public identity, included in the request message, matches with a wildcarded public identity, registered in the HSS (130) The S-CSCF is thus enabled to fetch a user profile using the wildcarded public identity</p> |