Patent ID: 8488599

Claim:
A method of configuring a device adapted to support analog service comprising plain old telephone system (POTS) service, digital service comprising Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, and multimedia terminal adapter (MTA) service, the method comprising: updating a line status table, wherein content of the line status table is updated via: for each analog line, detecting if analog service is active on said analog line; and for each digital line, detecting if digital service is active on said digital line; for said each analog line detected with active analog service, disabling said MTA service and enabling said analog service on each of said analog line detected with active analog service; disabling said MTA service and disabling digital service on each of said all digital lines detected with no active digital service if, based on the updated line status table, active digital service is not detected on all said digital lines; for said each digital line detected with active digital service, enabling said digital service on each of said digital lines detected with active digital service; and enabling said MTA service on said at least one analog line detected with no active service and associating, via setting an MTA mode, said at least one analog line detected with no active service with said at least one digital line detected with active digital service as a source of digital service for MTA service if, based on the updated line status table, at least one analog line is detected with no active analog service and if at least one digital line is detected with active digital service, and wherein the associating establishes an operable connection between said at least one analog line detected with no active service and said at least one digital line detected with active digital service.