Patent ID: 6578074
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
An improved provisioning server that provides a plurality of clients with a plurality of leases created from a database, wherein each lease of the plurality of leases contains a plurality of attributes, the improvement comprising at least one customization field associated with each client of the plurality of clients and stored in the database, wherein the provisioning server is operative to modify each lease of the plurality of leases in accordance with each successive customization field of the at least one customization field, the improvement further comprising at least one attribute in each field of the at least one customization field, wherein each attribute of the at least one attribute contains a tag, an operator, and a value, the operator informing the provisioning server when to modify the plurality of leases by assigning the value and when to modify the plurality of leases by appending the value, the tag informing the provisioning server how to match the at least one attribute in the at least one customization field with the plurality of attributes in each lease.