Patent ID: 8744428

Claim:
A method performed by a network device for overriding supported features, the method comprising: receiving, at the network device, a message; determining, in response to receiving the message, that a set of supported features should be transmitted to a partner device; determining, based on the partner device, whether a default set of features should be overridden; if the default set of supported features should be overridden, transmitting an alternative set of features to the partner device; and if the default set of supported features should not be overridden, transmitting a standard set of features based on the default set of features to the partner device; and wherein: the message is received from another network device; and the step of transmitting an alternative set of features to the partner device comprises: identifying a set of allowed features based on a set of override features associated with the partner device, transmitting the set of allowed features to the partner device.