Patent ID: 7333810
Filing Date: 2008-02-19
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A telecommunication system, comprising: a plurality of base stations connected to a telecommunication network; a plurality of subscriber stations each operable to connect to one of said base stations and to establish a connection between a user device operably connected to said each subscriber station and said telecommunication network connected to said one of said base stations; a subscriber database connected to said telecommunications network and configured to maintain a plurality of subscriber records that contain provisioning information for services, features, and account information for corresponding ones of all of said plurality of subscriber stations that have been provisioned in said telecommunication system; and an interactive response system operable, if said one of said base stations has queried said subscriber database and found that a newly connected one of said plurality of subscriber stations does not have a corresponding subscriber record in said subscriber database, to create a new subscriber record in said subscriber database in response to input received over one of said connections from a said newly connected one of said plurality of subscriber stations using a corresponding user device to select said services, features, and account information for said newly connected subscriber station.