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Maintenance of third party service's subscription information

  • US 7,185,087 B2
  • Filed: 08/23/2002
  • Issued: 02/27/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus for managing registration of users of a network to a third party service, the third party service being provided from outside the network, the apparatus performing the steps of:

  • receiving a registration request from a user, registration requests includes a third party service reference which refers to a third party service that the user is registered to;

    generating a registration record for the registration request in a registration table, the registration record comprises;

    the third party service reference from the registration request; and

    a reference to the user from which the registration request has been received;

    receiving a trigger request from a Service Capability Server (SCS), the trigger request being originally sent by a third party service to the SCSgenerating a trigger record for the trigger request in a trigger table, the trigger request and the trigger record comprising;

    a reference to at least one event for which the third party service needs to be notified of; and

    a reference to the third party service from which the trigger request has been received; and

    upon detection of an event in the network;

    checking the trigger table to find a correspondence between the detected event and the trigger record;

    if a correspondence is found, sending an event notification to the SCS, the event notification comprising;

    the corresponding reference to the detected event;

    the corresponding third party service reference; and

    the corresponding reference of the user associated with the third party service; and

    forwarding the event notification from the SCS to the corresponding third party service identified in the event notification, wherein the third party service can then provide a service to the user.

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