Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Fernando Cecilia Torralba

Håkan Österlund

Alfredo Gonzalez Plaza

Maria Esther Terrero Díaz-Chirón

Luis Ramos Robles

Tore Johansson

Håkan ÖSterlund

A method of initiating the provisioning of subscriber data in at least a Home Subscriber Server of an IP Multimedia Subsystem network. The method comprises receiving an authentication request or Session Initiation Protocol message in respect of a given subscriber who is making use of a user terminal to access the IP Multimedia Subsystem network. If it is determined that subscriber data is not currently provisioned for the subscriber in a Home Subscriber Server function or receiving such a determination, the following steps are performed: 1) causing a first notification to be sent to the user terminal indicating that the registration attempt is rejected, and 2) sending a second notification to a subscriber provisioning system informing the provisioning system of the registration attempt.

Methods and apparatuses for initiating provisioning of subscriber data in a HSS of an IP multimedia subsystem network

In the method of the invention, requests received by a request distributor are distributed to server computers. The request distributor uses distribution information for selecting, as a destination for the requests, a server computer. A first request relating to a delivery of a service is received by the request distributor and sent to one server computer. The server computer then receives the first request. Finally, it is determined whether a further request relating to the delivery of the service is expected to be received by the request distributor, and, if so, distribution information is made available to the request distributor.

Method for distributing requests to server computers

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Madrid, Spain

Fernando Cecilia Torralba