Patent ID: 8059808

Claim:
A method for implementing a communications redirection service, comprising: forwarding, through a packet switching network in response to a request, current communications service data for an account and data to populate a display having an on/off activation indicator for the communications redirection service for the account and a respective on/off indicator for each of a plurality of features of the communications redirection service, the display being configured to accept instructions that control the activation of the communications redirection service and the plurality of features of the communications service populated on the display, the plurality of features being activated only when the respective on/off activation indicator for the plurality of features are set to on and the on/off activation indicator for the communications redirection service is set to on, the display being populated with fields for entering provisioning information for the plurality of features upon activation of the plurality of features; receiving, through the packet switching network, an instruction for the communications redirection service to redirect communications addressed to a first receiving communications address assigned to the account to a second receiving communications address when the communications addressed to the first receiving communications address are from a specified sending communications address; and forwarding the instruction for the communications redirection service to a communications service manager through a data network, wherein communications addressed to the first receiving communications address are redirected to the second receiving communications address in accordance with the instruction for the communications redirection service when the communications are from the specified sending communications address.