System and method of providing a user with a registration review in IMS system

• US 9,241,253 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2008
• Issued: 01/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Siegel, Steven A., Afshar, Siroos K., Strahs, Leopold
• Primary Examiner(s): MAPA, MICHAEL Y
• Application Number:
  US12/019,102
• Publication Number:
  US 20090191869A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,917 Days
• Field of Search: 4551511-1514, 455417-420, 4554351-4352
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1095 Inter-network session transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/02 by periodical registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/06 De-registration or detaching
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/02 Processing of mobility data, e.g. registration information at HLR [Home Location Register] or VLR [Visitor Location Register]; Transfer of mobility data, e.g. between HLR, VLR or external networks

Abstract

Disclosed are a network-based device, method and computer-readable medium for operating an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to provide registration review. The method embodiment includes tracking and storing all current registrations for each user in an IMS system, receiving a request from a user for a status of the user'"'"'s current registrations and presenting, in response to the request, the current status of current registrations for the user.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a registration event notification, the registration event notification being generated by a time based-trigger, wherein the time based-trigger occurs when a device is not used at a specific location for a defined period of time;

sending an alert to a user regarding the registration event notification;

identifying a plurality of devices associated with a public user identity of the user, wherein a first device in the plurality of devices is de-registered based on the time based-trigger, to yield the first device and a plurality of remainder devices;

wherein each of the plurality of device associated with a public user identity of the user comprises contact addresses at which the public user identity is registered and wherein a same serving call/session control function is used and established until the last registered public user identity has been de-registered from all contact addresses of the plurality of devices; and

routing a communication to the plurality of remainder devices based on a classification of an originator of the communication, wherein a classification scheme used to classify the originator is defined by the user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an instruction from the user to take an action relative to the current registrations of the plurality of devices associated with the user; and

based on the instruction, taking the action to modify an aspect of the current registrations associated with the user.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request from a customer service agent for the current registration status associated with a selected user; and

presenting to the customer service agent the current registration status for the selected user.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving an instruction from the customer service agent to take an action relative to the current registration associated with the selected user; and

based on the instructions, taking the action to modify an aspect of the current registrations associated with the selected user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is received from a remote device that is not registered to the user in the internet protocol multimedia subsystem, the method further comprising:

presenting to the remote device the current registration status for the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the time-based trigger further occurs at a specific time of day.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication is routed to the plurality of remainder devices in parallel;

and

wherein the classification scheme comprises distinct service profiles for communicating with different groups of people.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein individual devices within the plurality of devices have distinct services for personal use, use with clients, and use with colleagues.

9. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving a registration event notification, the registration event notification being generated by a time based-trigger;

wherein the time based-trigger occurs when a device is not used at a specific location for a defined period of time;

sending an alert to a user regarding the registration event notification;

identifying a plurality of devices associated with a public user identity of the user, wherein a first device in the plurality of devices is de-registered based on the time based-trigger, to yield the first device and a plurality of remainder devices;

wherein each of the plurality of devices associated with a public user identity of the user comprises contact addresses at which the public user identity is registered and wherein a same serving call/session control function is used and established until the last registered public user identity has been de-registered from all contact addresses of the plurality of devices; and

routing a communication to the plurality of remainder devices based on a classification of an originator of the communication, wherein a classification scheme used to classify the originator is defined by the user.

10. The system of claim 9, the computer-readable storage medium having additional instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in operations comprising:

receiving an instruction from the user to take an action relative to the current registrations associated with the user; and

based on the instruction, taking the action to modify an aspect of the current registrations associated with the user.

11. The system of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a request from a customer service agent for the current registration status associated with a selected user; and

presenting to the customer service agent the current registration status for the selected user.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving an instruction from the customer service agent to take an action relative to the current registration associated with the selected user; and

based on the instructions, taking the action to modify the aspect of the current registrations associated with the selected user.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the request is received from a remote device that is not registered to the user in the internet protocol multimedia subsystem;

and

the computer-readable storage medium having additional instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in operations comprising;

presenting to the remote device the current registration status-for the user.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the communication is routed to the plurality of remainder devices in parallel.

15. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a registration event notification, the registration event notification being generated by a time based-trigger;

wherein the time based-trigger occurs when a device is not used at a specific location for a defined period of time;

sending an alert to a user regarding the registration event notification;

identifying a plurality of devices associated with a public user identity of the user, wherein a first device in the plurality of devices is de-registered based on the time based-trigger, to yield the first device and a plurality of remainder devices;

wherein each of the plurality of devices associated with a public user identity of the user comprises contact addresses at which the public user identity is registered and wherein a same serving call/session control function is used and established until the last registered public user identity has been de-registered from all contact addresses of the plurality of devices; and

routing a communication to the plurality of remainder devices based on a classification of an originator of the communication, wherein a classification scheme used to classify the originator is defined by the user.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15, having additional instructions stored which, when executed by the computing device, result in operations comprising:

receiving an instruction from the user to take an action relative to the current registrations associated with the user; and

based on the instruction, taking the action to modify an aspect of the current registrations associated with the user.

17. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15, having additional instructions stored which, when executed by the computing device, result in operations comprising:

receiving a request from a customer service agent for the current registration status associated with a selected user; and

presenting to the customer service agent the current registration status for the selected user.

18. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, having additional instructions stored which, when executed by the computing device, result in operations comprising:

receiving an instruction from the customer service agent to take an action relative to the current registration associated with the selected user; and

based on the instructions, taking the action to modify an aspect of the current registrations associated with the selected user.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the request is received from a remote device that is not registered to the user in the internet protocol multimedia subsystem;

and

having additional instructions stored which, when executed by the computing device, result in operations comprising;

presenting to the remote device the current registration status for the user.

20. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the request from the user is initiated from a user device at which the user is registered.