Dedicated user priority message

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a serving call session control function (S-CSCF) of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), a register message for a user equipment (UE) from a proxy call session control function (P-CSCF) of the IMS;

sending, by the S-CSCF, a user profile request associated with the UE to a Home Subscriber Server (HSS);

receiving, by the S-CSCF, a user profile answer associated with the UE from the HSS; and

in response to the register message,

sending, by the S-CSCF, a registration confirmation message associated with the UE to the P-CSCF,

determining, by the S-CSCF, that the user profile answer includes a priority indicator that indicates that a user associated with the UE is a Wireless Priority Service (WPS) user, wherein the determining includes finding, by the S-CSCF, a service priority level value in the user profile answer and determining, by the S-CSCF, that the service priority level value matches a predetermined priority trigger value associated with a priority user type, and

sending, by the S-CSCF in response to the determining, a priority message associated with the UE to the P-CSCF.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the priority indicator identifies at least one of a service priority level value or a namespace associated with a user associated with the UE.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising inserting, by the S-CSCF, the at least one of the service priority level value or the namespace in the priority message.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the S-CSCF includes at least a portion of the priority indicator in the priority message.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the registration confirmation message is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) response message including a “200 OK” response code, and the priority message is a request sent by the S-CSCF using a SIP MESSAGE method.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user profile request is sent by the S-CSCF to the HSS after the HSS sends the registration confirmation message to the P-CSCF, and the priority indicator in the user profile answer reflects changes to a user profile associated with the UE at the HSS that occurred after the UE registered with the IMS.

7. A serving call session control function (S-CSCF) of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), comprising:

one or more processors;

memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the S-CSCF to perform operations comprising:

receiving a register message for a user equipment (UE) from a proxy call session control function (P-CSCF) of the IMS;

sending a user profile request associated with the UE to a Home Subscriber Server (HSS);

receiving a user profile answer associated with the UE from the HSS;

sending a registration confirmation message associated with the UE to the P-CSCF;

determining that the user profile answer includes a priority indicator that indicates that a user associated with the UE is a Wireless Priority Service (WPS) user, wherein the determining includes finding, by the S-CSCF, a service priority level value in the user profile answer and determining, by the S-CSCF, that the service priority level value matches a predetermined priority trigger value associated with a priority user type; and

sending, in response to the determining, a priority message associated with the UE to the P-CSCF.

8. The S-CSCF of claim 7 , wherein the priority indicator identifies at least one of a service priority level value or a namespace associated with a user associated with the UE.

9. The S-CSCF of claim 8 , further comprising inserting the at least one of the service priority level value or the namespace in the priority message.

10. The S-CSCF of claim 7 , wherein at least a portion of the priority indicator is included in the priority message.

11. The S-CSCF of claim 7 , wherein the registration confirmation message is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) response message including a “200 OK” response code, and the priority message is a request sent using a SIP MESSAGE method.

12. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a serving call session control function (S-CSCF) of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), cause the S-CSCF to perform operations comprising:

receiving a register message for a user equipment (UE) from a proxy call session control function (P-CSCF) of the IMS;

sending a user profile request associated with the UE to a Home Subscriber Server (HSS);

receiving a user profile answer associated with the UE from the HSS;

sending a registration confirmation message associated with the UE to the P-CSCF;

determining that the user profile answer includes a priority indicator that indicates that a user associated with the UE is a Wireless Priority Service (WPS) user, wherein the determining includes finding, by the S-CSCF, a service priority level value in the user profile answer and determining, by the S-CSCF, that the service priority level value matches a predetermined priority trigger value associated with a priority user type; and

sending, in response to the determining, a priority message associated with the UE to the P-CSCF.

13. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 12 , wherein the priority indicator identifies at least one of a service priority level value or a namespace associated with a user associated with the UE.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 12 , wherein at least a portion of the priority indicator is included in the priority message.