Patent ID: 7644163

Claim:
A method, comprising: sending an access-request signal comprising a well-known uniform resource locator to a network by a terminal for connecting to a help-portal server of said network and for requesting a provisioning signal or a management session signal for configuring the terminal; receiving by the terminal, in response to said sending the access-request signal, an identity of said help-portal server using a chain of trust comprising at least two consecutive exchanges of information between trusted elements of the network and the terminal; and re-sending, in response to said receiving said identity of said help-portal server, said access-request signal to the help-portal server by the terminal with a request to provide the provisioning signal or the management session signal to the terminal, wherein, after being configured using the provisioning signal or the management session signal, the terminal is enabled for handling data-protocol services and dynamically configured for the data-protocol services specific to a service provider in a secure way based on said chain of trust so as to be able to connect said terminal to an IP backbone network via said network, which provides said data-protocol services and which is provided by said service provider wherein identifying said help-portal server comprises: identifying to the terminal a trusted access point node name by a trusted home location register of the network; re-sending the access-request signal to the trusted access point node by the terminal; identifying to the terminal a trusted domain name service server of the network by the trusted access point node; re-sending said access-request signal by the terminal to the trusted domain name service server for identifying an address mapping for the help-portal server; and identifying said address mapping to the terminal by the trusted domain name service server.