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Outgoing communication barring service in the IP multimedia subsystem

US8787162B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 17, 2012
Grant dateJul 22, 2014
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Expiry dateOct 30, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L65/4038
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A user terminal may include an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, client to enable the terminal to communicate with an IMS network. The IMS client may include a conference creation and control unit configured to create and control an IMS conference involving one or more participants, participants being identified within a conference INVITE or REFER message by respective Uniform Resource Identifiers, URIs, within a URI list. The conference creation and control unit may include a response handling unit configured to receive from the IMS network, in response to the sending of an INVITE or REFER, a SIP response message including an XML body specifying an Outgoing Communication Barring, OCB, service invocation result and configured to present the specified result to a terminal user. Related methods and application servers are also discussed.

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