US Patent 7239861 System and method for communication service portability

A system and method for communication service portability include the ability to receive, at an access point, a registration request for a user of an endpoint and to generate, based on the received registration request, a registration request for a wireless network authorization module, the generated registration request containing information from a user information module. The system and method also include the ability to receive a response to the generated registration request, to determine whether the generated registration request has been accepted, and to generate a response to the received registration request based on the status of the received response.