Patent ID: 9712392
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A VoIP network, comprising: a plurality of SIP endpoints that are initially unable to connect to the VoIP network; an application server adapted to identify an endpoint configuration for applying to the SIP endpoints that includes an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a SIP application server, to generate a single configuration command to configure all of the SIP endpoints according to the identified endpoint configuration, to format a SIP OPTIONS message to include the configuration command, wherein the SIP OPTIONS message includes a content type, defined for Extensible Markup Language (XML), that is dedicated exclusively to endpoint configurations, the application server is further adapted to broadcast the SIP OPTIONS message to all of the SIP endpoints in order to configure all of the SIP endpoints at once; for the SIP endpoints receiving the SIP OPTIONS message, the SIP endpoints are adapted to process the SIP OPTIONS message to identify the configuration command, to set local configuration parameters that enable the SIP endpoints to connect to the VoIP network based on the configuration command, and to transmit a response to the SIP application server; and an HTTP-based provisioning server, wherein: the application server is further adapted to transmit the SIP OPTIONS message to the HTTP-based provisioning server; the HTTP-based provisioning server is adapted to process the SIP OPTIONS message to identify the configuration command, to convert the configuration command in the SIP OPTIONS message to an HTTP configuration command, and to transmit the HTTP configuration command to the SIP endpoints; and for the SIP endpoints receiving the HTTP configuration command, the SIP endpoints are adapted to set the local configuration parameters based on the HTTP configuration command.