Patent ID: 8458374

Claim:
A method for configuring a mobile appliance in a communication system, the system comprised of the mobile appliance and an assignment device, the method comprising: the assignment device determining a location of the mobile appliance; the assignment device requesting a configuration for the mobile appliance from a database, the configuration being linked to the determined location; and the assignment device assigning the configuration to the mobile appliance such that the mobile appliance is assigned a communication address linked to the location of the mobile appliance, the assigned communication address being an address of the mobile appliance; and wherein the mobile appliance is a communication appliance, the communication appliance is used in a building having a plurality of rooms, wherein each of the rooms has a room number, and wherein the communication address associated with the respective location of the communication appliance comprises at least a portion of the respective room number of the location, and the at least the portion of the respective room number of the location comprises at least three characters.