Patent ID: 8085919

Claim:
A system for temporarily provisioning a telephone service feature, the system comprising: a controller, wherein said controller is configured to receive a call request to establish a telephone call between a calling party and a called party, if the call request identifies one or more telephone service features, determine whether one of the telephone service features identified in the call request can be temporarily provisioned to at least one of the calling party and called party to yield at least one identified telephone service feature, and if the call request does not identify a telephone service feature or a determination is made that the identified telephone service feature cannot be temporarily provisioned, present to at least one of the calling party and the called party a list of other telephone service features that can be temporarily provisioned to either the calling party or the called party, wherein the list is presented in at least one graphical user interface on at least one display of at least one device used by at least one of the calling party and the called party, and wherein the graphical user interface is configured to allow the at east one of the calling part and the called party to make a selection from the list to yield the identified telephone service feature; and an activator, said activator configured to temporarily allocate telephony resources to support said identified telephone service feature, and activate the identified telephone service feature so as to satisfy said call request and to deactivate said identified telephone service feature upon completion of said telephone call.