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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2002
Tinna Partanen, Tampere, FI;
Jounì Rapakko, Kylma{overscore (a)}koski, FI;
Markku Ojala, Tampere, FI;
Vlad A. Stirbu, Tampere, FI;
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A user equipment (UE) device ( ) including a mobile terminal (MT) ( ′) coupled to a terminal equipment (TE) device ( ) including an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) proxy adjunct (P+) for use by the TE ( ) in making multimedia service requests for IP communications with a desired end-to-end QoS, the end-to-end including the local connection and a network supporting QoS, e.g. an UMTS network ( ) having as an extension of its packet-switched core network ( ) an IMS ( ) providing multimedia services with selected QoS. The IMS proxy adjunct (P+) is implemented to make extensions to messages according to any protocol providing a session description protocol (SDP) component, such as SIP or RTSP, so as to ensure the selected QoS. In addition, a mechanism is provided by which the MT ( ′) informs the IMS ( ) when it has IMS proxy capabilities.