Patent ID: 7194507

Claim:
A method of enabling a communication terminal to receive communication services via a network, the method comprising: requesting a plurality of communication parameters from a server with a communication terminal via a mobile phone connected to the communication terminal, wherein the communication parameters are requested for use in communication software stored in the communication terminal that is enabled to communicate over a network after being populated with the requested communication parameters, notifying the server of a telephone number allotted to the mobile phone used by the communication terminal to request the communication parameters, the server extracting from a plurality of communication parameters, each of which is stored in association with a telephone number, communication parameters stored in association with the notified telephone number that include individual user specific identification information of a user of the mobile phone, and communication software configuration values, transmitting the extracted communication parameters from the server to the communication terminal, receiving at the communication terminal via the mobile phone the extracted communication parameters, and the communication terminal writing the extracted communication parameters into predetermined locations in the communication software stored in the communication terminal in order to configure the communication software to enable receipt by the communication terminal of communication services via a network.