Patent ID: 7730513

Claim:
A method for provisioning a host comprising: receiving at an enhanced services system a service identifier and a first identifier associated with a host wherein the host is a device capable of processing digital video data and is associated with a host type; determining the host type using the first identifier, the host type determined in part by accessing a table in a memory associating the first identifier with the host type; retrieving a host protocol file from the memory using the host type wherein the host protocol file comprises at least one configuration command and an associated host protocol, wherein the configuration command pertains to an operation capable of being performed in the host and the host protocol comprises protocol data for generating a host-specific protocol configuration message recognized by the host for executing the configuration command, wherein the host protocol file associated with the host type; deriving the host-specific protocol configuration message from the host protocol by using the service identifier to select the configuration command from the host protocol file; and sending the host-specific protocol configuration message from the enhanced services system to the host.