Patent 7979514 was granted and assigned to AT&T Mobility on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to compile a list of potential target users for a provisioning of an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) application existing on a source subscriber user device, filter the list of potential target users based on target subscriber subscription information, target subscriber device capability, and target subscriber identity module (SIM) capability to form a target list, and provision devices on the target list with the application after filtering. Other embodiments are disclosed.