Patent ID: 8917718

Claim:
A method for provisioning of a communication device comprising: receiving, at a feature server, a registration request from the communication device, the communication device being a wired voice over IP telephone, the registration request including an address associated with the communication device, the registration request initiated automatically in response to the communication device establishing a network connection and being powered on; registering the communication device in response to receiving the registration request; placing a call request to the communication device; in response to the call request being answered by a user, establishing a call session with the communication device; prompting the user of the communication device for a user identifier; receiving a user identifier from the user of the communication device; sending a reboot request to the communication device; disconnecting the call session with the communication device prior to sending one or more configuration parameters associated with the user identifier to the communication device; and after the communication device reboots, sending, in a user-specific configuration file, the one or more configuration parameters associated with the user identifier to the communication device after the call session has been disconnected, the one or more configuration parameters operable to configure the communication device.