Patent ID: 7796742

Claim:
A method for provisioning a computing device with a service, the method comprising: storing information associated with a user of the computing device in a memory of a server, wherein the stored information is a phone number associated with a device of the user, and stored during a non-provisioning event; executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor determines that the stored information requires additional information to provision the computing device with the service; querying the user for additional information not included in the memory of the server, wherein the additional information is required to provision the computing device with the service; querying the user to verify the phone number provided during a non-provisioning event before forwarding one or more communications associated with provisioning the computing device; and forwarding one or more communications from the server to the computing device, the one or more communications based on the stored information from the non-provisioning event and the additional information required to provision the computing device with the service.