Patent ID: 7778403

Claim:
A method for implementing a communications service for communications addressed to or from a communications address, comprising: receiving, from a requester though a packet switching network, a request to access current communications service data for an account for the communications address; forwarding, to the requester through the packet switching network, the current communications service data for the account; receiving, from the requester through the packet switching network, an instruction to change an on/off state of the communications service, the instruction input on a display having an on/off activation indicator for the communications service and a respective on/off indicator for each of a plurality of features of the communications service, and configured to control the activation of the communications service and the plurality of features of the communications service identified on the display, one of the plurality of features being activated only when the respective on/off activation indicator for the one of the plurality of features is set to on and the on/off activation indicator for the communications service is set to on, the plurality of features of the communications service each including a respective link such that when one of the respective links is activated causes a display to be displayed for entering provisioning information for the one of the plurality of features associated with the activated link; and forwarding the instruction to a communications service manager through a data network, wherein the on/off state of the communications service is changed in accordance with the instruction.