Patent ID: 9584562
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for provisioning of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone comprising: receiving a user identifier from a user of the VoIP telephone; sending a reboot request to the VoIP telephone, associated with the user; after the VoIP telephone, associated with the user, reboots, sending a user-specific configuration file having one or more configuration parameters, wherein the user-specific configuration file is associated with the user identifier of the user of the VoIP telephone; configuring the VoIP telephone, associated with the user, for operation with one or more authorized features for which the user is authorized to use, provided by a feature server, based on the one or more configuration parameters of the user-specific configuration file, wherein the one or more authorized features that are configured based on the one or more configuration parameters of the user-specific configuration file comprise call-related features selected from a group consisting of selective call forwarding, selective call acceptance, selective call rejection, call blocking, call directories, and 911 services.